By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Rabbi Dov Ber Ganz a”h, has passed away after a debilitating illness.  Rabbi Ganz was the dean of the Hebrew Academy of Suffolk County, an Orthodox Jewish elementary school in Long Island, New York, where he educated hundreds and hundreds of students who went on to other Yeshivos and […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel’s government, already shaken by the departure of coalition leader Idit Silman, was dealt another blow Sunday after the Arab Ra’am party announced that they were freezing their membership in the government until further notice. Despite this, coalition members are confident that they can solve the crisis and restore the party to […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman Maran Sar HaTorah Rav Chaim zatzal held that a siyum is actually preferable to fasting on Erev Pesach.  Why is that?  Because a Siyum is actually a seudas Mitzvah, while the firstborn fasting on this day is a Minhag – a strong minhag, but nonetheless a Minhag. Rav Chaim zatzal would […]

FLATBUSH (VINnews) — There has been a lot of buzz lately about Rebbe and teacher salaries being not sufficient. Well one donor decided to take matters into his own hands. In an extraordinary and inspiring act of generosity, one prominent businessman from Flatbush donated more than $300,000 to Masores Bais Yaakov in Flatbush, which his […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A man wanted in an attack on a subway train in Brooklyn that left 10 people wounded by gunfire was arrested Wednesday afternoon, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Frank R. James, 62, was taken into custody in Manhattan, the official said. Further details, including the arresting agency, weren’t […]

A man wanted in an attack on a subway train in Brooklyn that left 10 people wounded by gunfire was arrested Wednesday afternoon, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press. Frank R. James, 62, was taken into custody in Manhattan, the official said. Further details, including the arresting agency, weren’t immediately available. Investigators had announced Tuesday afternoon that they were searching for James, who was believed to have rented a van possibly connected to the violence. By Wednesday morning, New York authorities said he was a suspect in the shooting itself. Authorities were examining social media videos in which the 62-year-old decried the U.S. as a racist place awash in violence and railed against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams.

A man sought in connection with an attack on a subway train in Brooklyn that left 10 people shot — and once again interrupted New York City’s long journey to post-pandemic normalcy — is now considered a suspect, Mayor Eric Adams said Wednesday. Investigators had initially been searching for Frank R. James as a person of interest. Police said Tuesday that James rented a van possibly connected to Tuesday’s violence, but that they weren’t sure whether he was responsible for the shooting itself.

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The spiraling wave of terror faced by Israel has been accompanied in the last few weeks with a similar rise in online incitement to terror. Israel’s cyber warfare department has been working with security officials in an effort to remove and block all publications which contain incitement to violence or terror or […]

ELIZABETH, NJ (VINnews) — A Jewish woman is in critical but stable condition after being run over several times on Tuesday morning. The incident occurred at approximately 8:40 a.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Salem Avenue and Aberdeen Street in Elizabeth, NJ. Horrifiying footage shared on social media shows a Subaru stop in middle of […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) – NYPD COMMISH says We do have a person of interest we are looking for in the shooting of NYC subway system ID as Frank James. “The man who we believe is the renter of this u haul in Philadelphia is Frank R James. 62 years old. with addresses in Wisconsin and […]