Month September 2021
North Korea test-fired a newly developed hypersonic missile this week, state news media KCNA reported on Wednesday, joining a race headed by major military powers to deploy the advanced weapons… Read more » The post N. Korea Joins Race for… Continue Reading →
Democrats in the U.S. Congress were moving to head off one of several concurrent crises they face this week, saying they would vote to avert a government shutdown before funding… Read more » The post As Deadline Looms, Democrats Scramble… Continue Reading →
The post Hakafos Sheniyos at the Kosel appeared first on Hamodia. In related news: Harav Chaim Tzvi Brilant, z”l Religious Officer Appointed IDF Education Chief After Amona, Barkat Seeks to Demolish Illegal Arab Homes Benny Gantz Fires Adviser Who… Continue Reading →
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was in damage control mode on Wednesday following disparaging remarks he made about Israel’s health establishment before returning from the U.N. General Assembly in New York.… Read more » The post Bennett Comment Provokes Ire of… Continue Reading →
The land on which Audrey Trufant Salvant’s home sits in the small Louisiana town of Ironton has become an island in a sea of mud and snake-infested marsh grass. Nearby houses are disconnected from their foundations, a refrigerator is lodged… Continue Reading →
Multiple deaths and injuries were reported in a traffic accident involving a full bus taking Bnei Akiva campers home from a Sukkos trip on Wednesday afternoon, according to media reports.… Read more » The post Five Killed in Deadly Bus… Continue Reading →
The famed philanthropist Reb Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz spent Sukkos in Yerushalayim, staying in his new apartment, located near Shefa Mall and the Chassidic courts of Gur and Belz, for the first time. On Leil Simchas Torah, Reb Rechnitz purchased the… Continue Reading →
Bronwyn Russell wears a mask anytime she leaves her Illinois home, though she wouldn’t dream of going out to eat or to hear a band play, much less setting foot on a plane. In Virginia, Oliver Midgette rarely dons a… Continue Reading →
Two Chareidi families from Bnei Brak recently sold their apartments and moved to Guatemala to join the Lev Tahor cult, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. The families sold their apartments, and the proceeds, as well as their personal funds, were transferred to… Continue Reading →
Rav Shlomo Yehudah Zilbiger, z’l, the grandson of the Gaon Av Beis Din of the Eidah HaChareidis, HaGaon HaRav Tuvia Weiss, was niftar of the coronavirus on Simchas Torah at the age of 43 at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in… Continue Reading →
Rav Shlomo Yehudah Zilbiger, z’l, the grandson of the Gaon Av Beis Din of the Eidah HaChareidis, HaGaon HaRav Tuvia Weiss, was niftar of the coronavirus on Simchas Torah at the age of 43 at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. military officer called the 20-year war in Afghanistan a “strategic failure” and acknowledged to Congress that he had favored keeping several thousand troops in the country to prevent a collapse of the U.S.-supported Kabul… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Vice President Kamala Harris nodded as a student accusing Israel of ethnic genocide and then stressed that the student’s “truth should not be suppressed.” Harris appeared at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, to commemorate National… Continue Reading →
To read the incredible story about the Ribnitzer Rebbe, Rav Shach, Williamsburg and children rescued from an Arab village by Yad L’Achim CLICK HERE We hope you had a wonderful Yom Tov and wish you success in the upcoming year. Today,… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 5 people were killed, including a mother and her 3 children, and 2 more seriously injured in a horrific road accident between a bus and private vehicles which occurred near the village of Churfeish in the Upper… Continue Reading →
GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization(WHO) reported that the global number of new coronavirus cases and deaths continued to fall in the past week, with an estimated 3.3 million new infections and about 55,000 deaths, marking a 10% drop… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Jerusalem Eda Chareidis mourns the passing of Rabbi Shlomo Yehuda Zilbiger, the grandson and close aide of Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss Shlita, the leader of the Jerusalem Eda Chareidis. Rabbi Zilbiger passed away on Shmini Atzeres… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — When Dr. Michael Mirilashvili, CEO of Israeli company Watergen, which makes quality drinking water from air, heard about Israel’s peace agreement with the UAE, he knew exactly what he had to do. Dropping all of his other… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a zoom meeting organized between Zevulun Simantov, the last Jew in Afghanistan who fled the Taliban’s rule earlier this month, and rabbinical figures from around the world, Simantov agreed to make them emissaries to divorce his… Continue Reading →
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com There are at least 16 things that are a must know about Simchas Torah. EARLIEST SOURCE IS ZOHAR AND GAONIM Everyone, of course, should note that while in Eretz Yisrael Simchas Torah and Shmini… Continue Reading →
by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com One of the general differences between Litvaks (Misnagdim) and Chassidim lies in what they do on the holiday of Shmini Atzeres regarding eating in the Sukkah. Chassidim have traditionally taken a more lenient view… Continue Reading →