BDE: Rabbi Mordechai Sternberg, Rosh Yeshiva Of Har HaMor, Passes Away At Age 74
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — BDE: The Torah world mourns one of the founders of the Chardal yeshiva Har HaMor, Rabbi Mordechai (Motty) Sternberg, who passed away Monday at the age of 74....
Meron Failure Revealed: Police Recordings Warned Of ‘Impending Catastrophe’ Before Disaster
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In newly released recordings of police discussions which occurred during the hour prior to the Meron disaster in 2021, police can be heard warning their super...
WATCH: Jewish UFC Fighter Blasts Kanye – ‘Come see me Bro’
(VINnews) — After Israeli UFC fighter Natan Levy defeated Mexican fighter Genaro Valdez this weekend, he was asked about the rise in antisemitsm in the Unites States in a post-matc...
FOLLOW-UP LETTER: The Case For Allowing Boys To Marry At A Younger Age – Part II
(Akiva Lehman) — A couple of months ago, I wrote a letter which was published here on VIN. In it, we discussed the age that we marry off our young men. The Torah's view is that unl...
Emhoff To Host Jewish Leaders For Discussion Of Anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (AP) — Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, will host Jewish leaders this week to discuss a rise in antisemitism and efforts to fight hate in the Un...
Nine Months Pregnant Woman Suffers Stroke, Undergoes Emergency Birth At Shaare Tzedek
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Shaarei Tzedek Stroke Unit fought for hours for the life of a pregnant woman in her ninth month who had undergone a stroke.
The 38-year-old Jerusalem w...
DRAMA: The Bris Took Place In A Car- 2 Minutes Before Sunset
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — An unprecedented Bris took place in a car just 2 minutes before Shkiah [sunset[. The unusual event occurred last Monday when Rabbi Shlomo Machpoud, a famous M...
UTJ Close To Signing Deal With Likud, Gafni Delays Over Infrastructure Reforms Committee
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The UTJ party conducted marathon negotiations with Likud on Sunday night, leading to significant progress between the two parties.
On Sunday the two partie...
A First Hand View of Rav Yeruchem Levovitz zt”l Giving a Shmuess in the Mir in Poland
By Rabbi W. Wolfe Wernick
Presented By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
**Please note: This author is looking to make a video about the Mir Yeshiva in Poland and is looking f...
LISTEN: Rav Aaron Lopiansky on the Need to Compile Data to Solve The Shidduch Crisis
STAMFORD (VINnews) — At Thursday’s “Asking for a friend” panel a the Agudah Convention, Rav Aaron Lopiansky, Rosh Yeshiva of Silver Spring, discussed the need to gather data, in or...
Slivovitz, A Spirit With A Cherished Jewish History, Gets UNESCO World Heritage Protection
FRANCE (JTA) - L’chaim! L’chaim! Živjeli!
Slivovitz, a plum brandy traditionally associated with Passover by many Ashkenazi Jews, has been added to the United Nations’ list of i...
WATCH: Israeli Toddler In Los Angeles Attacked By Coyote, Lightly Injured
NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a terrifying attack which occurred Friday afternoon at the house of an Israeli living in Los Angeles, a coyote attacked his young daughter and attempted to ...
WATCH: At Convention , Rabbi Dr. Ahron Twersky Predicts Agudah Will Become ‘Irrelevant’ Due to Not Representing Chassidim
STAMFORD (VINnews) — While appearing at a panel about antisemitism at the Agudah Convention Friday, Rabbi Dr. Ahron Twerski spoke out against the lack of Chassidic representation w...
Chabad Chasid Who Heads Water Regeneration Firm Welcomed At Riyadh Conference
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Yehuda Kaploun, a Chabad chasid and president of RussKap Water, a company which uses Atmospheric Water Generation (AWG) technology to produce water from air, i...
250 Days Since Moishy Kleinerman’s Disappearance, Mother Requests New Line Of Investigation
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 250 days have passed since the mysterious disappearance of Moishy Kleinerman near the tomb of Rashbi in Meron. Police have removed the gag order on details of...
WATCH: Rabbi Zweibel Condemns Trump Dining with Antisemites Kanye and Fuentes at Agudah Convention
STAMFORD (Yaakov M / VINnews) — At the Agudah Convention on Motzei Shabbos, Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zweibel, executive VP of Agudath Israel of America, appeared to condemn President Dona...
Are Shabbos Housekeepers Free?
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
If housekeepers for Shabbos prep and use were free – would more people have them? Their presence would certainly reduce the pressure in many h...
KOSHER POLITICS: Trump was wrong to meet with Kanye (but he still likes the Jews)
In this episode, Yaakov M discusses:
President Trump had dinner with two vicious antisemites, Kanye West and Nick Fuentes. This was inexcusable. Yet it does not change the f...
Antisemitic Celebrities Stoke Fears Of Normalizing Hate
A surge of anti-Jewish vitriol, spread by a world-famous rapper, an NBA star and other prominent people, is stoking fears that public figures are normalizing hate and ramping up th...
Remembering the Mir Yeshiva in Poland: Rabbi Theodore Lewis z”l
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
His name was Rabbi Theodore Lewis z"l (1915-2010 - yahrtzeit 27 Tishrei). He was the Rabbi of the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island an...