Thursday, April 18, 2024

OP-ED:

Jewish teacher yells at kids who drew swastikas, gets charged with terror. That’s messed up.

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NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Last week, a student in a Wisconsin middle school was caught drawing swastikas during class. In response, the Jewish teacher who caught him allegedl...
FILE - US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman gives a speech during the opening ceremony at the US consulate that will act as the new US embassy in the Jewish neighborhood of Arnona, in Jerusalem, Israel, 14 May 2018. EPA

FRIEDMAN: Five years on, the US embassy in Jerusalem remains the key to peace in the Middle East

(JNS / David Friedman) — On May 14, 2018—exactly the same date and even the same hour that David Ben-Gurion announced Israel’s independence 70 years earlier—I presided over the ope...

CNN BLOODBATH: Trump Demolishes ‘Nasty’ Town Hall Moderator (Recap & Highlights)

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NEW HAMPSHIRE (VIN PODCAST) — President Trump's Town Hall on CNN was truly epic and entertaining. It was a huge win for Trump, and an embarrassment for 'fake news' CNN. T...
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during the CNN Republican Presidential Primary Debate at the University of Houston's Moores School of Music Opera House in Houston, Texas, USA, 25 February 2016. EPA/GARY CORONADO/POOL

POLITICAL HOCK: Trump to appear on CNN Town Hall. Joe Biden accused by whistleblower of serious crimes.

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NEW YORK (VIN Podcast) — On the latest episode of the Yaakov M Show: Get the popcorn...President Trump will appear on a CNN Town Hall this week. Unlike every other politicia...

Dovid Bashevkin Struggles to ‘See the Point’ of Elizabeth Holmes Going to Jail. I Respectfully Disagree.

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NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews Op-Ed) — Frum podcast host Dovid Bashevkin recently tweeted about Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former CEO of Theranos. R’ Bashevkin suggested tha...

OP-ED: Netanyahu’s Colossal Mistake May Have Led To Cessation Of Judicial Reforms

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — There are few more shrewd politicians than Binyamin Netanyahu, who has dominated Israel's political scene for over quarter of a century and been the longest s...

YESHIVA POLITICS: The charges against Trump are bogus. Dollar Tree stops selling eggs. (PODCAST)

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NEW YORK (VIN PODCAST) — Whether you support Donald Trump or not, the charges brought against him by woke DA Alvin Bragg are a total farce. There is nothing illegal about hush-...

Why does Tachanun get such a bad rap?

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NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — The month of Nissan is here. Some may feel relieved to get a “break” from Tachanun. And to be honest, it’s not just a Nissan thing. Throughout th...

Boro Park Leader Blasts NY Times, Says Jews ‘Invented Secular Education’

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BROOKLYN (VINnews) — A Jewish leader has penned an op-ed on a local news site, “Brooklyn Paper”, blasting the NY Times’ months-long crusade against Yeshivos. In an op-ed entitle...

‘HATEFUL OBSESSION’: Last 15 NYT Articles by Eliza Shapiro Were Hit Pieces Against Yeshivas

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NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — The New York Times is on a jihad against orthodox Jews, and for a change, the community is not rolling over or remaining silent. Members of the J...

OP-ED: Disrupting Israeli Democracy

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NEW YORK (VINnews) - The following opinion piece is reprinted with permission of Ruthie Blum, a Jerusalem Post reporter. Anti-government activists took to the streets across Isr...

Putting Hawara Riots In Context: On 6 Recent Occasions Terrorists Attempted To Murder Jews There

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JERUSALEM (VINnews)— Israel's Channel 14, the only television channel which supports the government's judicial reforms and right-wing policies, published a new perspective on the r...

OPINION: Ilhan Omar’s ‘Trophy’ Jewish Senior Staffer is Disingenuous and Ignorant

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MINNESOTA (Yaakov M / VINnews) — After antisemite Ilhan Omar was removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Jeremy Slevin, her “token” Jewish senior staffer, posted to Twitt...

KOSHER POLITICS: Joe Rogan’s Not Antisemitic. Netflix’s Julia Haart and Jonah Hill Do Not Represent Jews

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NEW YORK (VIN Podcast) — In his latest episode, Yaakov M discusses podcaster Joe Rogan’s comments in defense of Ilhan Omar. Rogan said of course “Jews are into money”, and he s...

LETTER: We Should Do Everything Possible to Get People to Learn During the Super Bowl

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Dear VIN, I think it is amazing that yeshivas and shuls transform the Super Bowl into a huge Kiddush Hashem. My son’s yeshiva holds a “super seder” event, where boys of all a...

OPINION: Jew-Loving Trump Has Every Right To Criticize George Soros

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NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — On Friday, Forward columnist Jacob Kornbluh accused President Trump of using an antisemitic trope to raise money. In a tweet, Kornbluh claimed th...

ANALYSIS: East Jerusalem Terror Cannot Be Defeated With ‘Defensive Shield’ Operations

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — With all of the good intentions of the new government in Israel, and even if it does succeed in curtailing the immoderate power of the courts, the litmus test...

FACT CHECK: What’s the real reason Biden waited so long to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon?

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(Yaakov M) — The Chinese spy balloon fiasco is a microcosm of everything that is wrong with the Biden administration. First, President Biden sat around and did nothing while a C...

R’ ELCHANAN POUPKO: The Shidduch Crisis You Don’t Know

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NEW YORK (R' Elchanan Poupko / VINnews) — Much, yet not enough, has been said about the North American Shidduch crisis. The age gap between Yeshiva students marrying women who are ...

OP-ED: You Don’t Have To Be Zionist To Side With Israel Against Its Enemies

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The unceasing debate about the right of Israel to exist  legitimately according to Torah theology will continue forthwith, just as it has for the 75 years of ...