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Thursday September 2, 2010 8:06 PM
Update below: Less than a week after an attempted robbery and shooting at the Apple Bank on 13th Avenue in the heart of Boro Park shook the community, multiple members of the Boro Park Shomrim (more…)
Thursday September 2, 2010 6:50 PM
Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said today that the Islamic community center and mosque planned near Ground Zero should be built because Muslims were among those of many faiths who died (more…)
Thursday September 2, 2010 3:40 PM
Michael Scherer writes in Time Magazine:
The Barack Obama that most Hoosiers remember voting for can still be found on YouTube. He stands before a cheering (more…)
Thursday September 2, 2010 3:14 PM
Over 20,000 people have signed an online petition which calls for the boycott of Standard Time in the next three days, which comes into effect in Israel this year before Yom Kippur. Daylight Saving Time (more…)
Thursday September 2, 2010 2:29 PM
Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed today to produce a framework for a permanent peace deal and to hold a second round of direct talks this month, modest achievements reached under U.S. mediation amid (more…)
Thursday September 2, 2010 1:42 PM
[Video below.] Last night, the Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe of Netanya, Rav Tzvi Elimelech Halberstam, paid a visit to the Belzer Rebbe, Rav Yissochor Dov Rokeach, at his home in Kiryat Belz, Yerushalayim. (more…)
Thursday September 2, 2010 12:20 PM
An Israeli rabbi narrowly escaped arrest after being stopped by security officers at Munich airport for carrying a shofar. Airport officials pulled aside the man, in his late 50s, and asked him to explain the (more…)
Thursday September 2, 2010 11:55 AM
The Coast Guard is responding to another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the Coast Guard, 13 people were onboard when it exploded and caught fire this morning. Everyone is accounted (more…)
Thursday September 2, 2010 11:06 AM
By Rabbi Yitzchok Lowenbraun
The Matzav.com reader’s comment on “It’s Time to Put Kiruv on Ice” begs a response. The halachic basis for kiruv is (more…)
Thursday September 2, 2010 10:21 AM
Dear Matzav.com Editor,
I am a yeshiva bochur learning in a yeshiva in Lakewood. I recently got to know a wonderful family that is distanced (more…)