14 Things About Shabbos That Every Teen-Age Girl Should Know
NEW YORK (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) Below, we find 14 things about Shabbos that every teen-age girl should know. Of course, everyone should ask her own Rav about particular...
Is Mamdani Saying: “All Immigrants Are Created Equal, But Some Immigrants Are More Equal Than Others”?
New York (VINNEWS)
That is the unmistakable message emanating from City Hall, where Mayor Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a new map of New York City's immigrant enclaves that manages ...
Reb Kalman Mendlowitz a”h: A Portrait in Achrayus
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Every so often you run into unique individuals who you take an instant liking to because they are so genuine. Reb Kalman Mendlowitz was just such a m...
Responding to The Times of Israel Post Exonerating Kasztner August 22, 2017
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) This a response to the Times of Israel post that defends Kasztner. That post was written by the nephew of Ottó Komoly (pictured above), ...
Rav Moshe Cordovero on His Yahrtzeit 23 Tammuz (and his Tomer Devorah!)
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) On the twenty-third of Tammuz, the Torah world remembers one of the most towering figures of the world of Kaballah. Rabbi Moshe Cordovero, kno...
A Postscript to the Rudolf Kasztner Train Post: “Gentlemen Soldiers of the Wehrmacht Do Not Wake Up Sleeping Children”
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) And with that line — spoken through a shut door to a German soldier, with the Shabbos candles burning behind her — Frieda Neuwirth saved herse...
Rudolf Kasztner: The 3 Opinions
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) Regarding Rudolf Kasztner’s role in Adolf Eichmann’s deception in the extermination of Hungarian Jewry -there are three positions: ...
NEW MATERIAL: Enabling Mass Murders: the Flawed Characters of Rudolf Kasztner and Flavius Josephus
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) Rezső (Rudolf) Kasztner was a Hungarian Jewish lawyer, journalist, and Zionist activist. In the years before World War II, he was known ...
The Chief Rabbi of New York, Rabbi Yaakov Yoseph zt”l on His Upcoming Yahrtzeit 24 Tammuz
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) On the seventh day of July, 1888, a ship docked at Hoboken, New Jersey, across the Hudson from lower Manhattan, and a crowd surged forward to ...
Today is the Yartzeit of Rav Chaim Naeh zt”l
Rav Avraham Chaim Naeh (13th of Iyar 5650 – 20th of Tammuz 5714, May 3, 1890 - July 21, 1954) was a Rav, Dayan and Posaik who pretty much established the system of measurements and...
72 Rulings of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l
NEW YORK (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) Recently, a young man studying in Yeshiva wished to daven vasikin rather than to daven in the Yeshiva minyan. There was actually a rulin...
A Step-by-Step Guide to Learning B’Iyun on the Topic of Doubts in D’oraisah Laws
NEW YORK (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) The laws of doubts are deep, and they come up everywhere in Torah. There is sfeika d'oraisa (a doubt in a Torah prohibition), sfeika d'rabbana...
A Guide to the 17th of Tammuz and the 3 Weeks
NEW YORK (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) Although the Three Weeks (from 17th of Tammuz to after Tisha B’Av) and the other two fasts are a period of mourning and introspection, the Nav...
Yerushalayim During Bayis Sheini and the 17th of Tammuz
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman)
It is summer time, and the 17th of Tammuz is one week away - next Thursday. Many people are travelling to Yerushalayim to spend some ...
Netanyahu’s Crass Joke and Onaas Dvarim: a Halachic Analysis
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) A caveat is in order at the outset. This author has been, and remains, generally supportive of the Prime Minister. His wartime leadership, the...
The Kapischnitzer Rebbe, Rav Avraham Yehoshua Heschel zt”l on his Yartzeit
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) The sixteenth of Tammuz marks the yahrtzeit of the Kapischnitzer Rebbe, Rav Avraham Yehoshua Heschel zt”l, a man who became a legend in ...
The Ohr HaChaim HaKadosh on his Yahrtzeit
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) Today, the 15th of Tammuz is the yahrtzeit on one of the most famous meforshim on Chumash – the famed Ohr HaChaim. The Novaminsker Rebbe zt”l ...
Eye Injections, Vaping, and Diabetes
New York (VINNEWS/Rabbi Yair Hoffman) Every month or so, I have an appointment with one of the top eye doctors in the New York area to deal with a repercussion of diabetes. What ha...