VINNEWS (New York)- It is yet another Pesach Program fiasco, that could be called, “The Pesach Program that Wasn’t.”   This time, it was the Pesach program scheduled to take place at the Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City.  It didn’t happen.  Here is the transcript from the Zev Brenner show. Zev Brenner: I’m Zev Brenner. Heshy […]

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Tonight is the third yahrtzeit of Rav Yaakov Perlow, zt’l, the Novominsker Rebbe and Rosh Agudas Yisroel of America.  He passed away at the age of 89, a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic, r’l. What a grave shock it was. All of Klal Yisrael became yesomim. We still are. […]

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Rabbi Shimshon Dovid Pincus zatzal (1944-2001) was a remarkable tzaddik and baal mussar who inspired tens of thousands of Yeshivaleit, seminary girls, and Bnei Torah.  He lived he in Ofaqim. In his early years, Rav Pincus learned in Beis HaTalmud in Bensonhurst under Rav Aryeh Leib Malin zatzal. His […]

Vinnews Staff (New York) – This is a tale of two poems.  Vin staff asked AI App Chat GPT to almost identical instructions: Write a poem about President Biden set to the tune of Gilligan’s Island Write a poem about President Trump set to the tune of Gilligan’s Island Here were the two results: BIDEN […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com What follows is what can be called, “The Emergency Hagaddah.”  It is for medical professionals on a call or the dangerously ill only.  Only use it with permission of your Rabbi or Posaik.  A medical professional can be a doctor, a nurse, a paramedic, a Hatzollah person, or an […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com A new sefer containing the shiurim of HaGaon HaRav Pinchas Wachsman shlita, from Beis Midrash Heichal Dovid at Yeshiva Darchei Torah, and mechuten of Rav Malkiel Kotler shlita is quickly selling out.  It contains his chiddushim on some twelve shiurim that he has given on inyanim of Pesach. Rav […]

by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com Yes, people are going to think it is strange, but there are a number of people that should not necessarily be drinking large shiurim of wine.  According to the practical and halachic research done by this author, this glass is the way to go. It seems that the shiur […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com This article is dedicated in honor of the 15th yahrtzeit of Rav Henoch Liebowtz zatzal which is tonight – the 10th of Nissan.   Every year at this time, we negate the Chometz.  But what is it, exactly, that we are doing? Our great Roshei Yeshiva have always taught us […]

By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com There is a minhag in many families of Klal Yisroel to avoid eating gebrochts. And yet, the Shulchan Aruch (OC 461:4) writes that one fulfills the Mitzvah of Matzoh with matzoh shruyah – gebrochts, soaked Matzah – as long as the Matzoh remains intact and whole.  This is based […]