NEW YORK (JTA) –  The fighting in Ukraine has been called “a WhatsApp war” amid widespread reliance on messaging apps by journalists, soldiers and ordinary civilians, and their central role in spreading propaganda.  Meanwhile, WhatsApp’s inventor, a Ukrainian-born Jew whose creation made him one of the wealthiest people in the world, has kept conspicuously quiet throughout the conflict. Jan Koum, […]

There is an epidemic that no one is talking about. It’s more contagious than covid. It’s more contagious because we get it from ourselves. Type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart problems, high blood pressure, strokes, and all kinds of other issues. It’s caused by unhealthy eating and lack of exercise. Just look at pictures of weddings, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — IDF security forces were issued a last minute delay in demolishing the house of the terrorist who perpetrated the attack on Dizengoff street in Tel Aviv in April. The demolition was delayed until after the visit of US president Joe Biden, due to concern of an escalation in terror attacks in the […]

NEW YORK (JNS) – Yeshiva University in New York is the latest academic institution to acquire the unabridged version of the Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive, a collection of audiovisual interviews comprising 54,000 eyewitness testimonies of witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust, as well as genocides in Nanjing, Rwanda, Armenia, Guatemala and Cambodia. The archive […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fisher-Price and U.S. product safety regulators are telling parents not to let their infants fall asleep in the company’s rockers after 13 infants died in the devices between 2009 and 2021. The deaths happened when the babies fell asleep in Fisher Price’s Infant-to-Toddler and Newborn-to-Toddler rockers. The company, along with U.S. Consumer […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com  This past Sunday, something wonderful happened in the Five Towns. It was an event that should be replicated in every major Jewish community across the country. Make that – in the world.    The fact of the matter is that children with special needs and or handicaps often feel isolated […]

BERLIN (AP) — A German federal court on Tuesday rejected a Jewish man’s bid to have a 700-year-old antisemitic statue removed from a church where Martin Luther once preached. The Federal Court of Justice upheld rulings by lower courts on the “Judensau,” or “Jew pig,” sculpture on the Town Church in Wittenberg — one of […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — More than 15,000 millionaires are expected to flee Russia this year, turning their backs on an imploding economy after Russia’s abortive invasion of Ukraine. The figure is based on an analysis of emigration data by the British-based Henley and Partners company. The report says that 15% of Russians with more than a […]

SAN DIEGO (VINnews) — Two Jewish men were sitting and minding their own business at a San Diego restaurant, when a man approached them and launched into a hateful anti-Semitic verbal attack. “The Goyim are starting to wake up,” the man said to them, as they looked him confusedly. “You guys have your own ethno-state. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) – The Israel Ministry of Defense will begin testing a robotic unmanned vehicle (M-RCV Medium Robotic Combat Vehicle), developed by the Ministry’s Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D), the Tank and APC Directorate, and Israeli security industries. The robotic combat vehicle will be unveiled today at Elbit Systems’ pavilion at the Eurosatory […]