Kamenetz Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner Passes Away From COVID-19 At Age 98
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — For the second time on the same day, the Torah world was plunged into mourning with the news of the passing of Rabbi Yitzchok Scheiner, the Rosh Yeshiva of Ka...
Attempted Stabbing Attack Thwarted At Gush Etzion Junction
JERUSALEM(JNS) — A Palestinian terrorist was shot and killed on Sunday morning during an attempted stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion junction in Judea and Samaria, the Israeli mil...
3,000-Year-Old Fragments Of Cloth Dyed With Royal Purple Found In Israel
JERUSALEM (JNS) — In a groundbreaking discovery, Israeli archaeologists have recovered scraps of fabric dyed in royal purple, also known as true purple, dating back to the era of t...
Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, Last Surviving Son Of The Brisker Rov, Passes Away At Age 99
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Torah world mourns the passing of Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik, the last surviving son of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev of Brisk, the Brisker Rov, who passed ...
In Belarus, Marc Chagall’s Synagogue Is For Sale To Anyone Willing To Restore It
BELARUS (JTA) - The remains of the synagogue in Belarus where the family of painter Marc Chagall used to pray are up for sale to anyone willing to restore the building.
The muni...
Volunteers Playing Shabbos Songs In Covid-19 Departments
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Innumerous acts of selfless kindness are performed in the various COVID-19 departments around Israel by the devoted staff who risk their health time and again...
Rabbi, Cantor Hang Mezuzah At Israel Diamond Exchange Office In Dubai
DUBAI (JNS) - Rabbi Dr. Elie Abadie, senior rabbi of the Jewish Council of the Emirates (JCE) in the United Arab Emirates, and Alex Peterfreund, co-founder and cantor of the JCE, a...
Chareidim In Gestures Of Selfless Love Towards Fellow Israelis In Need
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After a very tough week for Israeli chareidim in which the media attacked the entire community repeatedly as a minority of chareidim continued to open schools...
Negev Social Activist Brings Tons Of Vegetables To Bnei Brak In Solidarity Gesture
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Despite the negative media attention given to Bnei Brak in the wake of the rioting which followed aggressive police action to enforce health regulations in th...
How Tu B’Shvat Totally Changed in the Past 3 and 1/2 centuries
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
Pictured above is Rav Dovid Schustal, one of the Lakewood Roshei Yeshiva, at the Lessman family home in Bnei Brak, reciting the special Yehi R...
NBC Removes Story On Biden Official’s Ties To $500,000 In AIPAC Donations
WASHINGTON (JTA) — NBC has removed a report about hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby group, by a top Biden security official’s family foun...
52 Years Ago, 9 Jews Were Hanged In Baghdad. Today, Their Descendants Risk Losing Everything They Left Behind.
BAGHDAD (JTA) - On Jan. 27, 1969, nine Jews were hanged in Tahrir Square in the center of Baghdad as half a million people looked on.
It was the climax of a campaign of persecut...
Times Square’s New ‘Margaritaville Resort’ To Include A First-Floor Synagogue
NEW YORK(JTA) - A splashy new outpost of singer Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Resort empire coming to New York’s Times Square will include a synagogue.
The historic Garment Cen...
This Dutch Village Is Finally Ready To Tell Its Unique Holocaust Rescue Story
NIEUWLANDE, Netherlands (JTA) — On a cold February morning in 1945, a Dutch Nazi SS unit noticed a foreign-looking man walking around a farm in this remote village.
The Nazis co...
Ultra-Orthodox Unrest Threatens Netanyahu Re-Election Hopes
JERUSALEM (AP) — As he seeks reelection, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has turned to a straightforward strategy: Count on the rock-solid support of his ultra-Orthodox p...
Extradited Teacher Appears In Australia Court On Abuse Charges
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A former teacher extradited from Israel after a six-year legal battle appeared in an Australian court Thursday to face child sex abuse charges.
Israe...
Germany’s Angela Merkel Participates In Historic Torah Scroll Writing Ceremony
BERLIN (JTA) — Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel observed the finishing of a refurbished Torah scroll in an event marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin on Wednesday.
The ...
Anti-Semitic Incidents Drop By 50% In France, But Physical Assaults Remain Almost Unchanged
PARIS (JTA) — The number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in France in 2020 has dropped by 50% from 2019, yet physical assaults have remained almost unchanged despite COVID-19 lo...
‘We Owe This To Them’: Shoah Survivors In Vaccine Spotlight
VIENNA (AP) — Hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia got their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine Wednesday, an acknowledgement of past suffering and a tribute to...
In A First, Arab-Initiated Event Commemorates The Holocaust In Wake Of Abraham Accords
(January 27, 2021 / JNS) In the wake of the Abraham Accords and in honor of International Holocaust Memorial Day on Jan. 27, individuals from the group Sharaka held an event to mem...