JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli government is opposed to allowing the wives of Avreichim to stay home with their children on sick leave. The Knesset rejected a bill submitted by UTJ MK Uri Maklev which proposed allowing a woman who is employed and has a husband studying in kollel to receive sick leave for her […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com In recent weeks, our youth have had much to struggle with, r”l.  Chaim Walder, a famous author in the Torah community, was accused of horrific actions in a virulently anti-Chareidi and openly racist newspaper.  Subsequently, a Bais Din was held that examined the evidence and heard testimony from a […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Leading therapist Shimon Russel has spoken out strongly, calling for the removal of Chaim Walder’s books from society. He also said that Walder’s name will forever be tied to sexual abuse, due to his actions and avoidance denying the world clarity. Watch the full statement below.

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In the wake of the horrifying story that that has unfolded over the last few decades, and more recently in the public sphere, a survivor of abuse (not related to the Chaim Walder affair) has shared a heartwrenching open letter. The full letter is below: THE CLUB NO ONE WANTS TO […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of the Israeli government’s attempts to promote a new conversion arrangement which will allow every city rabbi to perform conversions, Chief Rabbi Lau sent a sharp letter to Prime Minister Bennett. Rabbi Lau said that if the head of the Rabbinate’s Conversion Directorate, Moshe Waller, would be fired as […]

ISRAEL (VINnews) — The following Teshuva was posted on the Facebook page of Rav Shmuel Eliyahu, explaining his Bais Din’s psak against Chaim Walder: Question: How was the Bais Din allowed to establish Chaim Walder’s guilt without hearing directly from the accused? Especially since they paskened (with certainty) that he was guilty? The Halacha requires […]

ISRAEL (VINnews) — Following the death of Chaim Walder, Rav Shmuel Eliyahu, one of the leading dayanim involved in the case, appeared on a radio show with Esti Perez, discussing the many victims that he has worked with, and the immense pain they have suffered. The Rav emphasized that the focus right now should be […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) —While Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu took an uncompromising stand against Chaim Walder after his suicide and strengthened the resolve of those who had complained against him, a sharply different approach emerged from the words of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, the rosh yeshiva of Ponovezh and one of the leaders of the Lithuanian yeshiva world. In […]

Brooklyn (VINnews) – Two young Jewish men claim they where attacked Sunday in Brooklyn, because they where Jewish. Blake Zavadsky and his friend Ilan Kaganovich, both 21, were at the Foot Locker in Bay Ridge shortly before 11 a.m. Sunday when they were allegedly accosted by two attackers. “They asked us what we were doing […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Chaim Walder, the popular children’s author accused of inappropriate moral behavior in recent weeks, has been found dead near his son’s grave in Segula cemetery in Petach Tikva. Walder’s books were banned by the Beis Din of Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu and Rabbi Yehuda Silman and Rabbi Eliyahu claimed that there were numerous […]