JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a warning to the Houthi rebels in Yemen and to their sponsor Iran, stating that Israel “must be capab

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman May 8, 2025 The chamber fell silent as he began to speak.

The young man who was killed in a boat accident off the coast of Eilat on Wednesday evening was Levi Yitzchak Leizerowitz, z’l, a 21-year-old resident of Tiveria. The niftar, a member of the Breslov community in Tiveria, is survived by his parents, his wife, and a one-year-old daughter. As a teen, he attended the Migdal Ohr institutions of HaGaon HaRav Dovid Grossman in Migdal HaEmek. He grew very close to HaRav Grossman and maintained a close relationship with him. Nine others were injured in the incident, two moderately and seven lightly. The police said that the boat overturned after it made a sharp turn at high speed, causing all 12 passengers to be thrown in the water. A witness said that none of the passengers were wearing life jackets and some fell under the boat’s engine.

The Iranians arrested over the weekend in the UK were planning on carrying out a large terror attack at the Israeli embassy in London, The Times reported on Wednesday. The police have refused to comment on the details of the case, but according to the report, “it is understood the embassy was the main target.” “Dan Jarvis, the security minister, refused to give details of the immigration status of the suspects citing the continuing police inquiry,” the report added. The suspects were reportedly “hours away” from carrying out the attack before being arrested. Authorities said that the suspects’ plots were “some of the biggest counter-state threats” the UK has seen in recent years.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once urged the Obama administration to scrutinize an audio recording believed to contain the sound of his father’s 1968 assassination, suggesting it captured more shots than the firearm used by the convicted shooter was capable of firing.
The appeal was made in a letter Kennedy Jr. sent in September 2012 to then-Attorney General Eric Holder. That correspondence was among a large batch of documents released Wednesday by the National Archives, which pertain to the government’s investigation into the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Today, the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center (OUA) met with senior leaders of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to discuss ongoing efforts to combat antisemitism and protect Jewish communities across the United States as part of its two-day Mission to Washington. The meeting included Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy Aaron Reitz, and Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Leo Terrell.

Am I allowed to make egg and onion on Shabbos? How to choose a shirt from a pile of clothing and not transgress borer on Shabbos? Can you put food in the oven on Shabbos? Numerous Shabbos questions are impossible to answer without thorough knowledge of its laws. Shabbos comes once a week, so if a person is not well-versed in its intricacies, then it is inevitable that transgressions will take place. The many books of basic laws are wonderful, but to really understand the halachos and to apply them, it is essential to learn and remember hilchos Shabbos with the background discussion.  What is the challenge we face? It takes several years for a full-time advanced Torah learner to cover the laws of Shabbos in depth.  Kinyan Hilchos Shabbos for men offered a solution.

Despite recently undergoing a medical procedure, Rav Yitzchok Ezrachi, rosh yeshiva at Yeshivas Mir in Yerushalayim, displayed remarkable mesirus nefesh by delivering his weekly shmuess to talmidim via a live Zoom broadcast from his hospital room.

A new Pentagon oversight report has sharply criticized the Biden administration’s failed Gaza pier initiative, revealing that the project resulted in one death, 62 injuries, and at least $31 million in equipment losses. According to the findings, both the Army and Navy launched the effort without sufficient planning, training, or inter-service coordination.
The temporary floating pier, which President Joe Biden introduced during his 2024 State of the Union address as a response to left-wing outrage over Israel’s conflict with Hamas, was supposed to be a lifeline for humanitarian aid into Gaza. But the structure was operational for only 20 days before being scrapped entirely.