JERUSALEM (VINnews) — It is not by coincidence that the final of the 2022 soccer World Cup started at exactly the same moment that Jews throughout Israel lit their first 5783 Chanukah candle. The symbolism could not be ignored: Jews fought Greece and Greek civilization which lauded physical prowess and initiated huge sports events, while […]

ISRAEL (VINnews) — Journalist Yanki Farber, from the “B’Chadrei Charedim” news site, appeared on the VINnews podcast to discuss the violent protests by Charedi extremists. Yanki discussed the position of the Gedolim and Charedi party leaders about the hafganot. He explained that the real cause of the violence is a small secret group which uses […]

This week, Elon Musk set off a firestorm in the mainstream media when he tweeted that his preferred pronouns are “Prosecute / Fauci”. Some defended Fauci and praised his ‘public service’, to which Musk replied that ‘Fauci funded research that led to millions of deaths and lied to Congress.’ PLUS: Hunter Biden artwork continues to […]

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 […]