New York – Sick of cleaning all day? Now do it all week. Then do it all year. Then do it for 210 years. As the time of our cheirus approaches (and our precious kids keep pestering us with “Why do we have to clean the whole house for Pesach?!”), the key to its spiritual theme [...]

New York – The manner in which we can gain the most out of the impending holiday of Purim is by learning and studying both its halachos as well as the underlying hashkafos. Below we find an overview of what Purim is all about written by noted Rabbi Yair Hoffman. It contains nuggets [...]

New York – As first reported exclusively on VIN News, an all new music video starring Shloime Daskal and Avraham Fried is being released to benefit the two Yeshiva boys that are still serving time in a Japanese prison. The bochurim are currently having their cases appealed in Japanese Supremem Court. The song, Tatte, was [...]

New York – In the second of a four part VIN News exclusive interview with CJ Studios Yosef Shidler, Rabbi Lazer Brody discusses emunah, the fundamental principle that is the key to happiness in this world, explaining that most people have no understanding of what emunah really is. Rabbi Brody describes the thirteen principles [...]

New York – With a resume that is long and eclectic, Ashdod’s Rabbi Lazer Brody defies description. He holds a degree in agriculture from the University of Maryland, served in two of Israel’s wars, survived numerous counter-insurgence and anti-terrorist missions, studied personal and family counseling on a postgraduate level and created a faith reinforcement [...]

New York – They are known as Mendy and Heidi. And they are a couple that is under some pretty intense scrutiny about a televised court-case involving a wig that was washed at a laundromat. Up until now there has only been one side of the story told. The majority of people who have [...]

New York – Recently there has been much discussion about the pervasive problem of Jewish teens that are at risk. These are the kids you see hanging around street corners, getting into to trouble and dropping out of our yeshivah system. Unfortunately what may have been a unique occurrence just twenty years ago is becoming a [...]

New York – For years we have heard the term “kids at risk” to label children who are seemingly heading off the derech, turning their backs on their families, their institutions of higher learning and the mesorah that they were raised with. But an enlightening and timely must read article in this past week [...]

New York – In a fiery speech, a respected Brooklyn Rabbi called for an all out war against yeshivos that throw talmidim out of their institutions. Rabbi Aaron Krausz, a prominent chareidi Rov from Williamsburg, New York, and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Shaar Hatalmid in Brooklyn, addressed the baalei batim during Shalosh Seudos in [...]

Dear Rabbi Shmuley, This is a hard letter to write because, more times than not, your thoughts on an entire host of issues are right on the mark. You have earned the admiration of many – because of your vast intellect, your writing capabilities, and your eloquent defense of Torah issues and thought. The issue now, [...]