World Jewish News

  NEW YORK (JTA) – Days after the Supreme Court ruled that Yeshiva University must allow an official LGBTQ pride club on campus, the administration… Read More ›

  by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Sfas Tamim Foundation Reuvain and Shimon, decided to purchase two lottery tickets together and pool their winnings.  They… Read More ›

The justices, in a 5-4 decision, declined to put on hold a state court ruling that required NYC to recognize YU Pride Alliance as a… Read More ›

NEW YORK — I don’t write this to score points or gain any followers, I write out of fear and frustration. Fear of seeing another… Read More ›

Tatsuo Osako welcomed thousands of Jewish refugees fleeing German-occupied Europe and ensured their safe transport to Japan; more than 80 years later, Israeli government posthumously… Read More ›

NEW YORK (Rabbi Elchanan Poupko / VINNews) — As the New York Board of Regents implements changes in New York’s Yeshivas, we have seen an… Read More ›

Opinion: A probe into a lack of secular education at ultra-Orthodox schools in New York has stirred an uproar in the U.S., but remains part… Read More ›

Almost eight decades later, a group of Holocaust survivors return to Germany to inaugurate a memorial at the same spot where the death train stopped… Read More ›

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com The New York Times has written a one-sided attack against the Yeshiva and Torah community that is so filled… Read More ›

BROOKLYN (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – Yanky Meyer, a man who was well known and highly respected by the Jewish community, members of law enforcement and various… Read More ›

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Two sisters who survived the Holocaust as girls and moved to the United States afterward died just days apart in… Read More ›

BROOKLYN — Boro Park’s Maimonides Medical Center may need to be “saved” even sooner than expected. In addition to its allegedly subpar conditions and poor… Read More ›

NEW YORK — In a horrific road accident which occurred late Monday night, Rav Yidel Weinstock, who had served as the Gabbai of the Beirach… Read More ›

Germany should shoulder its share of responsibilities for the attack, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said.   German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday asked for forgiveness… Read More ›