JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Torah world mourns the loss of Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss Zts’l, Gaabad (leader) of the Eda Chareidis during the past 19 years, at the age of 96. During the last few months Rabbi Weiss had been weakened first by a foot infection which forced him to be hospitalized and then by […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss was born in 1926 in the town of Pezinok near Bratislava in Czechoslovakia. His father, Rabbi Shlomo, was a Magid Shiur and disciple of the Shevet Sofer. Since there were not enough children in the town to maintain a Talmud Torah, Yitzchak attended the state school and studied […]

BROOKLYN (VINnews) Maimonides Hospital has apologized after posting an ad featuring a fake Chassidish Jew. The ad has now been deleted as well. This is the latest in a series of debacles for the disgraced hospital, which has come under fire for severe mismanagement and safety concerns. Mind boggling, theyre in boro park and deliver […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Three months ago, 38-year-old Shai Ben-Shlomo was critically injured in a terror attack which occured in the park in Elad where he was walking with his children. Ben-Shlomo was attacked by the terrorists, who caused him significant head injuries. He was rushed to the Beilinson hospital in Petach Tikva where he was […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Jerusalem court authorized to publicize that two people have been arrested in connection with the disappearance of Moishy Kleinerman. One of them. Solomon Abramov, a Jerusalem resident in his 30’s, is being held by police while the other was released yesterday without bail. Salomon is suspected of involvement in the disappearance […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Supreme Court overturned Wednesday a previous decision it had made and ruled that the community of Mitzpe Keramim, near the eastern Binyamin community of Kochav HaShachar, need not be destroyed. The new decision will save the 45 homes at the outpost, which had previously been slated for demolition. Residents of the […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — On the occasion of the yarhzeit of his father, Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda (Zalman Leib) Teitelbaum, Satmar rebbe of Williamsburg, sharply attacked the Belz chasidim who recently reached an agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Education. The agreement will provide special budgets for Belz educational institutions which maintain certain […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During a question and answer session which took place Wednesday night with Rabbi Bentzion Mutzafi, a prominent Sephardi posek, he was asked about giving charity to beggars. The woman who asked said that she tries to be tight on expenses and to maintain caution in spending her husband’s hard-earned money. However her […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a head-on collision which occurred Wednesday evening on Road 60, the main road which traverses Judea and Samaria, a 6-year-old boy was killed and four other family members were injured at varying degrees. The accident occurred after a Palestinian woman crossed a dividing line during a dangerous overtake and crashed into […]

Hebrew University study testing water supplies follows Health Ministry finding of low iodine concentration among Israelis, prompting concerns about childhood development