NEW YORK (AP) —NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors worked Monday to save the lives of multiple people gravely injured when smoke from a fire knocked them out or trapped them in their apartments in a New York City high-rise building. Nineteen people, including nine children, died in the blaze. Dozens of people were hospitalized, and […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Torah world was plunged into mourning with the passing of Rebbetzin Temi Kamenetsky, the wife of Philadelphia Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky. In the last few days, Rebbetzin Kamenetsky’s condition had deteriorated and many tefilos were made for her recovery but on Sunday night she passed away. Rebbetzin Kamenetsky was […]

BRONX (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – Members of the Jewish community did what they do best today, turning out en-masse to provide supplies and hot food to the victims of the deadly Bronx high rise fire that killed at least 19 and was described by Mayor Eric Adams as one of the worst that New York City […]

KAZAKHSTAN (JTA) — The Jewish community of Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, has shut down its activities as most of its members hunker down in their homes amid a wave of bloody protests. Dozens of protesters and 18 police officers have been killed in the violence, which began Sunday and prompted a Russia-led coalition […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s deadliest fire in more than three decades, killing 19 people including nine children Sunday at a Bronx apartment building, was caused by a faulty space heater, officials said. Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said the fire “started in a malfunctioning electric space heater” in an apartment unit spanning the […]

BRONX (VINnews) – More than 200 Firefighters where on the scene at a 5 Alarm Fire this morning, in the Bronx that has left many civilians injured, more than 60 people were injured in the fire, FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said during a briefing Sunday afternoon. At least 32 people suffered “life-threatening injuries,” he said. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, the 98-year-old Rosh Yeshiva of Ponovezh, has contracted coronavirus, according to a report from his associates. The Rosh Yeshiva was tested for coronavirus after his body temperature rose and the test revealed that he was positive. Rabbi Edelstein’s infection was surprising since he has been extremely careful since the […]

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com HaGaon Rav Moshe Shternbuch’s gabbai reached out to this author and forwarded the following Teshuvah from Rav Shternbuch shlita. Rav Shternbuch is the Raavad of the Eida HaChareidis nd is one of the Gedolei HaDor. [The Rav further conveyed orally that the obituaries published in the Charedi press [in […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former President Barack Obama commemorated late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Saturday as a man “who got things done,” as Democratic leaders gathered to recall Reid — often laughingly — as a man whose impatience for pleasantries was part of a drive to improve the lives of ordinary Americans. The […]

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — A towering slab of rock broke from a cliff and toppled onto pleasure boaters drifting near a waterfall on a Brazilian lake Saturday and officials said at least six people died. Edgard Estevo, commander of the Minas Gerais State Fire Department, said at a news conference that in addition to the […]