After Failing To Equate Islamophobia With Anti-Semitism, Black Equity Officer Is Fired
NEW YORK (VINnews) — In an astonishing display of insensitivity regarding the unique phenomenon of anti-Semitism, the director of the worldwide professional organization for childr...
GOP Congressman Flouts Mask Rules On Airline Flight To Texas
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas congressman who has been an outspoken critic of COVID-19 mask mandates went without a mask for at least a portion of a commercial airline flight Tuesday e...
Israel Scrambles To Curb Jump In COVID Infections
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel, a world leader in coronavirus vaccinations, reported its highest daily infection rate in three months as it scrambles to contain the spread of the n...
Female Soldier Lightly Injured In Jordan Valley Stabbing Attack, Terrorist Apprehended
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A female soldier was lightly to moderately injured at a Jordan Valley outpost Wednesday morning and her weapon was stolen from her by a Palestinian terrorist,...
Four Yeshiva Students Arrested In Holland For Smuggling Khat, Placed In Separate Jails
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Many Israelis have been caught lately smuggling the khat plant around Europe and among them were quite a few chareidim. Kikar Hashabat reports that 4 yeshiva ...
CDC Director Walensky Weighs In On Wearing Masks
WASHINGTON — Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says the CDC is leaving it up to local officials to set guidelines for mask-wearing ...
Rabbi Kanievski’s Personal Physician Calls On Children Above 12 To Vaccinate
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Dr. Meshulam Hart, the personal physician of Rabbi Chaim Kanievski, issued a letter Tuesday in which he called on children aged 12 and above to vaccinate agai...
Amish Put Faith In God’s Will And Herd Immunity Over Vaccine
PENNSYLVANIA (AP) - When health care leaders in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country began laying out a strategy to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, they knew it would be a tough s...
Hong Kong To Ban Passenger Flights From UK To Curb Virus
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's government says it will ban all passenger flights from the U.K. starting Thursday as it seeks to curb the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.
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The Overweight Men and the Great Weight Loss Bet
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
The story must have happened a number of years ago, because the question was posed to Rav Elyashiv zt”l.
Apparently, a group of overweight ...
Rescue Workers In Miami Identify Bodies Of Reb Yehuda Aryeh Leib Olivekowitz And His Wife Ruth A’H
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Rescue workers at the site of the South Champlain Tower in Miami have identified the bodies of Reb Yehuda Aryeh Leib Olivekowitz (79) and his wife Ruth (74) in...
Chabad Mother Describes How She Escaped Surfside Tower With Her Children Just Before It Fell
NEW YORK (VINnews) — While the world looks on in horror as rescue workers continue to try and save some of the more than 150 people trapped under the rubble of the South Champlain ...
IDF, United Hatzalah Send Rescue Delegations To Miami
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced Saturday night that a delegation from the IDF's search and rescue team will be sent to Miami to help in the rescue effo...
Lapid Urges Youth To Get Vaccine As Active Cases in Israel Surges, Appoints Special Airport Commissioner
JERUSALEM — Israel’s new prime minister is urging the country’s youth to get vaccinated as coronavirus case numbers have crept up in recent days due to a localized outbreak of the ...
WATCH: IDF Rescue Team Arrive To Florida Disaster Site
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israel elite IDF engineering team arrived this morning to Florida to help in recovery efforts following the collapse of a 12-story condo in Surfside, Florida on T...
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Miriam Naor To Head Meron Commission Of Inquiry
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Miriam Naor will head the commission of inquiry established to investigate the tragedy in Meron in which 45 people lost the...
Family Receives Calls From Landline Buried In Rubble Of Surfside Tower
NEW YORK (VINnews) — During the three days which have passed since the collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Miami, there have been a number of signs of life from the...
Israel Brings Back Mask Rules As Variant Spreads
JERUSALEM — Israel, a world leader in vaccinations, is once again requiring people to wear masks in indoor public spaces amid a coronavirus outbreak driven by the arrival of a new ...
Lilly To Seek FDA Approval For Potential Alzheimer’s Drug
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Eli Lilly is nearly ready to take another shot at getting approval for a possible Alzheimer’s drug.
The drugmaker said Thursday that it plans to submit its p...
CDC Extends Eviction Moratorium A Month, Says It’s Last Time
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday extended the nationwide ban on evictions for a month to help millions of tenants unable to make rent payments during the coro...