JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Tal Gilboa is an animal liberation and vegan activist who served as an advisor to former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu on animal rights issues. Gilboa is a Likud member, an outspoken person who is never afraid to speak out on issues which she champions. In a moving post, Gilboa described how she […]

PORTUGAL (JTA) – The head of the Jewish Community of Porto, Portugal said that a criminal investigation stemming from the organization’s role in vetting Jews with Sephardic ancestry for Portuguese citizenship amounts to antisemitic persecution by officials. In an unusually harsh letter to lawmakers last week, Gabriel Senderowicz said the probe was perpetrating a “Holocaust […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a painfully candid interview aired on Israel’s Kan 11 state television channel, a young woman (whose voice was dubbed and face blurred) described the severe abuse she suffered at the hands of the rabbi of her school and subsequently the harassment she endured at her Ulpana, or girls high school. The […]

LONG ISLAND (VINnews) Hateful antisemitic graffiti was placed on a campaign sign for Jewish candidate Lee Zeldin. The depraved vandals painted a swastika and the number 187, the California penal code for murder, which according to the Zeldin campaign “has been universally adopted as a common death threat.” The sign was located on a lawn […]

STATEN ISLAND (VINnews) — Rudy Giuliani was assaulted inside a store on Sunday. Giuliani was smacked on the back at a Shoprite store on Veterans Road, Sunday afternoon, while campaigning for his son. Giuliani had been handing out flyers and taking pictures with supporters of his son Andrew who is running for governor . The […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) At his Motzei Shabbos tisch, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe spoke harshly against the Gerrer Chassidim who have been attacking the followers of Rav Shaul Alter. The Rebbe said that this sort of disgracing of Talmidei Chachamim led to the destruction of Yerushalayim, and he said that “the disputes that are taking place can […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — If there is one paradox which remains constant in chareidi politics, it is the lack of correlation between the growth of the chareidi communities and their representation in Israeli politics. By all accounts, Israel’s chareidi community numbers about a million people (Bli Ayin Hara), representing about a ninth of the electorate. Moreover […]

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Sara’s lifelong dream was to help people and to protect children.  She became a lawyer for Child and Family Services.  She had tried hundreds of cases, where she worked hard to ensure that those who preyed upon children, and those who were unduly violent, or those who had abused […]

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman Roy Neuberger brings a unique perspective to current events, that follows the Chofetz Chaim’s own take on current events.  It is a perspective we should all share. Mr. Neuberger grew up across from Central Park as the son of one of the leading finance experts in the United States, Roy Neuberger […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel’s Labor Party leader, Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli, spoke out sharply on Friday against the US Supreme Court’s abolishing of Roe vs Wade. Michaeli, an outspoken feminist who seeks to reform the grammatical genders in Hebrew to include females in all formats of expression, said the abortion ruling was a result “of […]