NEW YORK (R’ Elchanan Poupko) — When Jews left Judaism and Orthodoxy in droves during the 1800s and early 1900s, the great sages of the generation took strong action. Great sages, from the great Chafetz Chaim to several Lubavitcher Rebbes, From Sarah Schnirer to the Alter of Novardhok and R’ Meir Shapiro, addressed the problems, […]

NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Recently, Dr. Yosef Sokol released a breakthrough study about the Shidduch Crisis. He surveyed 15,000 people, and worked meticulously to ensure the accuracy of his results. If correct, his data may challenge the “age-gap” theory (which is very logical but has not been statistically proven), and may point […]

(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 unless certain rare criteria are met, every Jewish man must try his best to be married before he turns […]

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 fact that Trump was the most supportive president of Jews and Israel in decades, probably in history. Trump moved the Israel embassy, pardoned Shalom Rubashkin, brokered the […]

NEW YORK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — In this week’s Chinuch Roundtable, a father asked whether he should “persuade” his 12 year old son to attend their Rav’s Shabbos drasha after davening. Most boys his age (and some adults) do not stay inside shul. The father believes it is disrespectful for them to leave, however […]

Dear VIN, I think that we need to give President Trump the benefit of the doubt. If you look at the facts, two things are clear: Trump has been a staunch supporter of Jews, perhaps more than any US president Trump was clearly set up by Kanye to look like he sympathizes with antisemites Look […]

(JTA) — I don’t find Dave Chapelle’s “Saturday Night Live” monologue funny, unlike my classmates who draw inspiration from him. About a year ago, in my eighth-grade English class, I was listening to my classmates talk about Holocaust denial. Some of them were joking, sure, but that didn’t make it any better. We’d been reading […]

WASHINGTON (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Antisemite Ilhan Omar released a statement in response to Republican leader Kevin McCarthy’s heroic pledge to strip her from the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  Below are her comments, as well as our response.  From the moment I was elected, the Republican Party has made it their mission to use […]

WASHINGTON (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Nancy Pelosi is finally stepping down as leader of the Democrat party, while still young and exuberant, although older than President Biden who turns 80 on Sunday. Pelosi has had a remarkably “lucky” career. She and her husband Paul have been extremely fortunate stock traders, defying unthinkable odds to […]

In this exciting episode, Yaakov M discusses: The 2024 election season has officially begun. This week President Trump announced his candidacy, although some say his speech was low-energy and “subdued”. Does any Republican candidate have a chance to beat him? PLUS: A govt watchdog says that the White House broke the law by deleting a […]