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Turkey’s Erdogan tells Jewish leaders he plans to visit Israel

Turkey’s Erdogan tells Jewish leaders he plans to visit Israel

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Jewish leaders that he planned to visit Israel and that antisemitism is “a crime against humanity.”   Turkish President… Read More ›

How to Be a Good Guest (and Host or Hostess)

How to Be a Good Guest (and Host or Hostess)

What a pleasure, what a relief, you think to yourself.  Your family has been invited out for a Shabbos meal.  No cooking, just enjoyment.  Or… Read More ›

Brooklyn woman knocks hat off Orthodox Jewish man

Brooklyn woman knocks hat off Orthodox Jewish man

The suspect was arrested on Saturday night by NYPD with assistance from volunteer safety patrol group Boro Park Shomrim.   NEW YORK – A Brooklyn… Read More ›

50,000 visits a year: Jews increasingly flock to Temple Mount amid escalation fears

50,000 visits a year: Jews increasingly flock to Temple Mount amid escalation fears

Ahead of Rosh Hashanah, group says visits nearly doubled in past year; police gear up for tense holiday season   Jews visited the Temple Mount… Read More ›

Yeshiva University Suspends All Student Clubs As It Appeals Case Against LGBTQ Alliance

Yeshiva University Suspends All Student Clubs As It Appeals Case Against LGBTQ Alliance

  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 ›

Chile FM apologizes after president refuses to accept Israeli ambassador

Chile FM apologizes after president refuses to accept Israeli ambassador

Chilean President Gabriel Boric has a history of supporting boycotts against Israel.   Chilean Foreign Ministry officials apologized to new Israeli Ambassador Gil Artzyeli and… Read More ›

The Denied Lotto Ticket

The Denied Lotto Ticket

  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 ›

US Supreme Court requires Yeshiva University to allow LGBT student club

US Supreme Court requires Yeshiva University to allow LGBT student club

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 ›

OP-ED: Why we’ll all miss the queen

OP-ED: Why we’ll all miss the queen

She came to symbolize what was ultimately acceptable and what was not, at a time when that cardinal distinction is being challenged in democracies other… Read More ›

A [Hasidic] Parent’s Response To The New York Time’s Slam-Piece

A [Hasidic] Parent’s Response To The New York Time’s Slam-Piece

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 ›

Japanese travel agent honored for helping Jews in Holocaust

Japanese travel agent honored for helping Jews in Holocaust

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 ›

RABBI POUPKO: Double Standard of Fighting for New York’s Yeshivas

RABBI POUPKO: Double Standard of Fighting for New York’s Yeshivas

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 ›

The miseducation of religious Jewish children

The miseducation of religious Jewish children

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 ›

‘By the memorial and railroad tracks, I felt our victory over the Nazis’

‘By the memorial and railroad tracks, I felt our victory over the Nazis’

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 ›

Analyzing the New York Times Hatchet Job Against Yeshivos

Analyzing the New York Times Hatchet Job Against Yeshivos

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 ›

Poland demands reparations from Germany, while Israel still waiting on unpaid debt

Poland demands reparations from Germany, while Israel still waiting on unpaid debt

Opinion: The Polish demand for $1,3 billion in compensation over Nazi crimes has no chance of seeing itself through, but this should inspire our government… Read More ›

Queen Elizabeth II never came to Israel – comment

Queen Elizabeth II never came to Israel – comment

Queen Elizabeth visited much of the Middle East, but she never visited Israel.   In her 70 years on the throne, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth traveled… Read More ›

Yanky Meyer Founder Of Misakim Passes Away At 59

Yanky Meyer Founder Of Misakim Passes Away At 59

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 ›

Sisters Who Survived Holocaust Die Days Apart In Alabama

Sisters Who Survived Holocaust Die Days Apart In Alabama

  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 ›

REPORT: Maimonides Hospital Lost $145M Last Year, May be Close to Collapse

REPORT: Maimonides Hospital Lost $145M Last Year, May be Close to Collapse

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 ›