KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian attack at Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant in Ukraine did not result in any radiation being released and firefighters extinguished a blaze at the facility, U.N. and Ukrainian officials said, as Russian forces pressed their campaign Friday to cripple the country despite global condemnation. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s […]

Until just a few months ago, David Cherkaskyi was finishing a degree in cybersecurity, praying at his Chabad synagogue and posting selfies from his travels across the Jewish world. Now, he’s standing by in his hometown of Dnipro, Ukraine, “ready to kill Russian soldiers.” The 20-year-old Hasidic Jew and his father Asher are among a […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Kyiv Chief Rabbi Moshe Asman (one of a number of claimants to title of Chief Rabbi) has slammed the ‘silence and indifference” of Russians and Russian Jews over what is occurring in Ukraine. Holding a Sefer Torah in his hands, the Rabbi, whose village nicknamed ‘Anatevka’ outside Kyiv is currently home […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com This author recently had the opportunity to observe, up close, a highly functional individual who also has Down’s syndrome.  The opportunity  has caused the author to suggest that we should re-explore a number of underlying assumptions in regard to various aspects of how halacha and Downs Syndrome intertwine.  Previously, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will vow to make Vladimir Putin “pay a price” for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in his first State of the Union address, rallying allies abroad while also outlining his plans at home to fight inflation and the fading but still dangerous coronavirus...

MOLDOVA (VINnews) — Chabad of Moldova has been hard at work welcoming more than a hundred Jewish refugees from Ukraine to Kishinev over the past few days. And it is preparing for an even larger influx in the days and weeks to come, as the situation in Ukraine worsens. “With more people you have to […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Despite the dangers involved in staying in the war zone, Chabad emissaries throughout the Ukraine have chosen to stay with their communities. In many instances they have to provide food and shelter for many other people besides their families. In the village of Anatevka south of Kyiv, Rabbi Moshe Asman who […]

Seeking to tighten the financial squeeze on Russia over its war against Ukraine, governors and lawmakers in numerous U.S. states were taking actions Monday to pull state investments from Russian companies while encouraging private entities to do the same. The effect of sanctions by U.S. states often pales in comparison to national ones, but state […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — “It says that one mustn’t cry on Shabbos but this Shabbos I couldn’t hold back tears three times,” Rebbetzin Miriam Moskowitz, the Chabad emissary in Kharkiv, described. “The first time was on Friday night when we succeed in getting to the shul. At kiddush we were downstairs in the dining room […]

UKRAINE (VINnews) — In this stirring video, a group of men, women, and children, caught in the middle of the Ukraine war, are reciting Tehillim as they huddle in a cramped basement. Premlishan is in the Lviv province, which is currently under siege by Russian forces. The town has a robust Jewish history that dates […]