LOUISVILLE, KY (JNS) A rabbi and his sons in Louisville, Ky., have pledged to do acts of kindness for 18,000 people in 2020 in honor of those who lost their lives to violence, the Louisville Courier Journal reported. Rabbi Avrohom Litvin, regional director for Chabad of Kentucky, based in Louisville, will officially launch a new […]

JERSEY CITY, NJ (VINnews) – The scene of the Jersey City shootout became a symbol of hope and perseverance on Sunday night, the first night of Chanukah. A small silver menorah and containers of doughnuts sat on a folding desk in entrance of the market. A bit of after 6:30 p.m., Singer Yoely Greenfeld stood […]

JERSEY CITY (JNS) — A crowdfunding campaign raised more than $1.5 million primarily from Orthodox and Chassidic donors for the family of Leah Mindel Ferencz, 33, who was shot and killed on Dec. 10 in the Jersey City kosher grocery that she owned with her husband, The Forward reported on Thursday. Chesky Deutsch, a local […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House argued Sunday that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has put herself in an untenable position by stalling House-passed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump in hopes of shaping the upcoming Senate trial. The House voted Wednesday to impeach Trump, who became only the third president in U.S. history to be […]

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com) If we delve into the prehistory of Chanukah, we learn all sorts of interesting new information.  When we combine this information with Midrashim – it enhances our understanding even more.  Finally, when we unearth lost midrashim – the information can be rather fascinating. It is a sad fact that […]

WASHINGTON (AP ) – As the political clamor caused by a top Christian magazine’s call to remove President Donald Trump from office continues to reverberate, more than 100 conservative evangelicals closed ranks further around Trump on Sunday. In a letter to the president of Christianity Today magazine, the group of evangelicals chided Editor-in-Chief Mark Galli […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday slammed International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda for announcing her organization’s intention to conduct a broad investigation of Israel for “war crimes,” calling the announcement “absurd” and accusing the ICC of having become a weapon in the hands of Israel’s enemies. “While we are […]

WASHINGTON (VINnews) — Recently, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was interviewed on a radio program, during which she made remarks perceived by some to be incendiary towards Israel. This prompted the Rabbinical Alliance of America to send a letter to Nancy Pelosi, demanding that she request clarification into Cortez’s comments. The letter reads as follows: The […]

BEIT SHEMESH (VINnews) — During Yud Tes Kislev celebrations in Kfar Chabad, the Malchus band performed musical accompaniment, including celebrating singer Yoeli Rabinowitz. When prime minister Netanyahu arrived, Rabinowitz, who is a Satmar Chassid, was forced to be part of the welcoming party, singing Le’Binyamin Amar in honor of the prime minister as well as […]

YORK COUNTY, VA (AP) – A pileup involving more than 60 cars on a major interstate in Virginia on Sunday morning injured dozens of people, some critically, according to state police. The accident happened just before 8 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 64 in York County near Williamsburg and for a time shut down traffic in […]