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Texas Chabad Rabbi Releases Statement On Lebanese Man Who Faked Identity To Marry Jewish Girl

Texas Chabad Rabbi Releases Statement On Lebanese Man Who Faked Identity To Marry Jewish Girl

TEXAS (VINnews) — As previously reported by VINnews, a Lebanese man deceived a Jewish girl from Brooklyn and married her, after spending time with the Chabad… Read More ›

Analysis: In Las Vegas, Jewish Republican confab weighs one more roll of the dice on Trump

Analysis: In Las Vegas, Jewish Republican confab weighs one more roll of the dice on Trump

Speakers point to victorious Virginia race where GOP candidate kept ex-president at arm’s length, but also note support for Trump’s Israel policies make him difficult… Read More ›

A Mother’s Prayer From the Chazon Ish

A Mother’s Prayer From the Chazon Ish

The Chazon Ish, Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz zt”l (1878 – 1953) was not just one of the Gedolei HaDor and the leading recognized Posaik HaDor… Read More ›

Interfaith leaders urge UN’s COP26 to adopt the Plant Based Treaty

Interfaith leaders urge UN’s COP26 to adopt the Plant Based Treaty

Over 100 interfaith leaders – including former Chief Rabbi of Ireland Rabbi David Rosen and Revered Shad Groverland of the global organization “Unity Worldwide Ministries.”… Read More ›

VIDEO: Outrage As Soccer Fans Sing Anti-Semitic Song To Jewish Man On Flight To Belgium

VIDEO: Outrage As Soccer Fans Sing Anti-Semitic Song To Jewish Man On Flight To Belgium

  BELGIUM (VINnews) — Many are expressing outrage after footage emerged of a plane full of European soccer fans singing a vile anti-semitic chant on… Read More ›

Rabbi Schneur Zalman Blumenfeld, 58, Chief Chabad Emissary in Peru Dies at 58

Rabbi Schneur Zalman Blumenfeld, 58, Chief Chabad Emissary in Peru Dies at 58

  LIMA (Chabad.org) – Rabbi Schneur Zalman Blumenfeld, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Peru, who served Jewish residents and visitors to Lima for more than three decades… Read More ›

Remains of IDF’s first fallen paratrooper brought to Israel

Remains of IDF’s first fallen paratrooper brought to Israel

Private Martin Davidowicz was a Holocaust survivor who was killed during the IDF’s first Paratroopers training course.   The remains of the first IDF’s first… Read More ›

Tree of Life rabbi: ‘We can’t let evil win, and it won’t go away on its own’

Tree of Life rabbi: ‘We can’t let evil win, and it won’t go away on its own’

3 years after the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh that claimed 11 lives, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers speaks about grieving, life after the tragedy and serving as… Read More ›

The Predator and the Frum Child Protection Lawyer: a Halachic Analysis

The Predator and the Frum Child Protection Lawyer: a Halachic Analysis

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com I had heard this woman’s story earlier today – before my flight back to New York from Ben Gurion… Read More ›

A third of US Jews changed behavior due to antisemitism -AJC

A third of US Jews changed behavior due to antisemitism -AJC

The report surveyed both American Jews and the general American public who are at minimum 18 years old, who were asked about their perceptions and… Read More ›

US concerned about Israeli plans for 3,000 settler homes

US concerned about Israeli plans for 3,000 settler homes

The announcement about settler housing plans comes amid media reports that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is under extra US pressure to freeze such plans.  … Read More ›

Renowned microbiologist and WWII hero dies at 100

Renowned microbiologist and WWII hero dies at 100

Prof. David Sompolinsky left hiding in Denmark during WWII to save other Jews.   Renowned biologist and Holocaust hero Prof. David Sompolinsky passed away last… Read More ›

Google Maps Removes ‘Apartheid Wall’ Label From Security Barrier Near Jerusalem

Google Maps Removes ‘Apartheid Wall’ Label From Security Barrier Near Jerusalem

NEW YORK (JNS) – Google has announced that it has removed the label “Apartheid Wall” from a road adjacent to the security barrier on the… Read More ›

Thomas Nides approved as US ambassador to Israel

Thomas Nides approved as US ambassador to Israel

Nides, an American banker and government official, was born in Duluth, Minnesota to a Jewish family.   The United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee has… Read More ›

Jewish radicals who harm Palestinians are enemies of the state

Jewish radicals who harm Palestinians are enemies of the state

Opinion: Extremists acting with unbridled violence against Palestinian civilians and even IDF soldiers, do so due to racism and not patriotism as they claim, and… Read More ›

UK Jewish toddler Alta Fixsler, 2, dies after being removed from life support

UK Jewish toddler Alta Fixsler, 2, dies after being removed from life support

Manchester girl had been at center of protracted legal battle by parents to keep her on life-saving machines or have her transferred to Israel for… Read More ›

German Israeli Singer At Crux Of Anti-Semitic Hotel Incident Accused Of Fabricating Story

German Israeli Singer At Crux Of Anti-Semitic Hotel Incident Accused Of Fabricating Story

BERLIN (JNS) – Gil Ofarim, the German Israeli singer who accused the Westin Hotel in Leipzig, Germany, of refusing him service because he wore a… Read More ›

Don’t base Israeli-German ties only on the Holocaust – opinion

Don’t base Israeli-German ties only on the Holocaust – opinion

Successive Israeli governments have been quite successful in winning some time over the Palestinian issue, while improving or preserving economic achievements and cooperation with the… Read More ›

3 Shuvu Banim Members Arrested In Connection To 2 Unsolved Murder Cases In Jerusalem 30 Years Ago

3 Shuvu Banim Members Arrested In Connection To 2 Unsolved Murder Cases In Jerusalem 30 Years Ago

JERUSALEM — Israeli police arrested three members of the Shuvu Banim sect on suspicion of involvement in two unsolved murders which took place in the… Read More ›

‘Fiddler’ meets ‘Sopranos’: Gritty Sholem Aleichem novel in English for 1st time

‘Fiddler’ meets ‘Sopranos’: Gritty Sholem Aleichem novel in English for 1st time

Long forgotten and not included in the Yiddish author’s canon, ‘Moshkele the Thief’ paints a rare picture of the seedier side of Old Country life… Read More ›