The Satmar Rebbe on his Yahrtzeit
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Those that knew the Satmar Rebbe, Rav Yoel Teitelbaum zt"l, loved him. After the Nazi beasts yimach shmam almost completely destr...
10 Things to Know About Shabbos Nachamu
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
So what are the top 10 things to know about Shabbos Nachamu?
#1. Firstly, being joyous and celebrating Shabbos Nachamu is a custom with deep historical ...
Charlotte Herzberg Family’s Story Touches Tens of Thousands in Viral Tisha B’Av Film
NEW YORK (VINnews) - A Tisha B'Av film produced by Yaakov Langer of the Living Lchaim podcast network and featuring the parents of 8-year-old Charlotte Herzberg has drawn more than...
History in the Making: Torah Study is Enshrined in State of Israel’s Basic Law
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman)
The Israeli Knesset made history on Monday evening, July 13, 2026, passing a new Basic Law that officially ensh...
The Career Scammer and Bitachon
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) THE QUESTION: A career scammer, who has taken the life-savings of several people is sitting in prison. He declares with perfect calm that Hash...
The Twentieth of Sivan: A Forgotten Fast Day
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman)It was twelfth-century France, and there was an accusation. The accusation followed the now-familiar pattern of medieval anti-Jewis...
Dov Hikind Calls for National Guard Deployment at NYC Israel Day Parade
NEW YORK (VINnews)-Prominent Jewish activist Dov Hikind is urging Gov. Kathy Hochul to deploy the National Guard to protect participants in next Sunday’s Israel Day Parade, citing ...
Ben Gvir: An Analysis and Some Perspective
NEW YORK (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) There is no question that Ben Gvir's actions recently were ill-advised. He transformed a story about Israel lawfully enforcing a legal b...
Children From Deceased Soldiers: A Halachic Analysis
New York (VINnews/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) Since October 7th, more than 940 IDF soldiers and some 210 members of Israel’s security forces have been cut down by murderous terrorist...
But When Do We Eat the Matzah??
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) Many people are asking the same question right now: But when exactly are we supposed to eat the matzah on Pesach Sheini??
There are a...
A New Look at the Month of Iyar
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
The Steipler's Principle
Rav Chaim Kanievsky’s father, known as the Steipler zt"l writes in his Birchas Peretz (Parshas Mikaitz) that every person m...
The Order of Aliyos: A Translation and Expansion of Biur Halacha §136
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman — L’ilui nishmas his father, Dr. Nathan Hoffman z”l, whose eighteenth yahrtzeit is 5 Iyar, this evening.
Introduction
Few decisions in shul are as socially ...
In Defense of the Sheitel: Why the Heter Still Stands A Response to the Current Wave of Attacks
NEW YORK (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) A flood of emails has come in attacking the recent article on how Rav Dov Landau shlita saved the sheitels. Ads and articles are circulating t...
Mah Rabu Maasecha Hashem: The Secretary Bird
A Creature Whose Very Existence Testifies to a Designer
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) Every creature in the natural world is a mofes, a living testimony to the chochmah ...
How Rav Dov Landau Shlita Saved the Sheitels
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) It was the spring of 2004. Frum women everywhere faced a quandary. In Brooklyn many of them set curbside bonfires of their own she...
Understanding the Heter to Take a Haircut Today a la Brisk Chakiros
NEW YORK- (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) Among the fascinating anomalies in the halachos of Sefiras HaOmer is a permission first recorded in Minhagim Yeshanim MiDura: even though wed...
Schlissel Challah: The Key to Opening the Gates of Heaven
New York -(VinNews/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) "Yes, Mommy, but what does the key mean? Why do we put it in the Challah dough?"
Last Shabbos, we read a fascinating Pasuk in Shir HaS...
The Day the World Was Redeemed — and What It Means for You – 8 Things to Know About Shvii Shel Pesach
NEW YORK (VINnews/Rabbi Yair Hoffman)There is an essential truth that Shvii shel Pesach asks us to confront: Emunah.
The Shira sung at the sea was the moment Klal Yisroel embedd...
Did Journalist Amit Segal Violate Eight Mitzvos in Leaking Information That Endangers Others
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
The story reads like a geopolitical thriller. An American F-15 is shot down over Iran. One pilot is recovered. A second crew member is unaccounted for. And...
16 OBLIGATIONS OF SIMCHAS YOM TOV
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman
There is a fascinating Zohar Chadash (Shir HaShirim 1a) that tells us of a special holy light that encompasses every Jewish Neshama on each of the six Yomim ...