NEW YPRK (New York Jewish Week) — New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a consumer alert on Friday urging Jews to be mindful of discriminatory pricing practices at car washes in the days leading up to Passover. In previous years, some car wash businesses reportedly raised prices by as much as 50 percent in […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — MK Itamar Ben-Gvir ascended to Temple Mount Thursday as is his custom on every eve of Rosh Chodesh. Ben-Gvir, accompanied by tens of policemen, claimed that Hamas’s spokesman had threatened him and questioned why Israel does not eliminate him. “He threatened me? I am the proprietor of the State of Israel,” Ben-Gvir […]

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A federal judge has just sentenced Let Tahor cult leader Nachman Helbrans to 144 months (12 years) in prison followed by 5 years of supervised released for the 2018 Shabbos kidnapping of two children who escaped the cult The sentencing for a second cult leader, Mayer Rosner, is ongoing and will be handed down later today. YWN will update this article as soon as it is handed down. Back in November of 2021, Helbrans and Rosner were found guilty on all six charges they faced, including conspiracy to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and conspiracy to commit international parental kidnapping.

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The wave of terror in Israel continues without letup. On Thursday morning, a terrorist from Bethlehem ascended a bus near the Gush Etzion communities of Neve Daniel and Elazar. The terrorist stabbed a passenger with a screwdriver, wounding him moderately to seriously. Another passenger then succeeded in eliminating the terrorist, who was […]

When Noam Shalit first learned that his son, Gilad, had disappeared, his thoughts turned to his own father. Noam’s twin brother, Yoel, went missing in the Golan Heights in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War. Their father immediately set off for the war battered plateau to search for Yoel, who was 19, the same age […]

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Part of the Mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel is sharing the pain and empathizing with our brethren in Eretz Yisroel.  This 45 second clip, spoken at the levaya of the Kadosh, the martyr, Rabbi Avishai Yehezkel zatzal, by his brother-in-law, say it all.  It has been subtitled so that others […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The terrorist who perpetrated the murderous attack in Bnei Brak apparently searched for victims in a Bnei Brak apartment block before going on a rampage in the streets, according to newly released security footage. A surveillance camera shows the 26-year-old Palestinian terrorist running through the stairwell of a building opposite where he […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — One of the victims of Tuesday’s deadly shooting attack, has been identified as 29-year-old Bnei Brak resident Avishai Yechezkel. According to Bechadrei Chareidim, Yechezkel was out for a walk on Tuesday, with his two-year-old son in his stroller, in order to put him to sleep. While he was out, he was […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — SHOOTING IN BNEI BRAK: At least 5 people have been wounded in a shooting incident in Bnei Brak, medics say. The Magen David Adom ambulance service says it received reports of a shooting on HaShnayim Street in the city. At least four of the victims are in serious condition. According to […]