Move to Protect Shechitah in Europe Earns Praise
The Conference of European Rabbis welcomed moves by a European Parliament committee to protect the right to kosher slaughter. In Monday's vote, the agricultural...
Durban II Draft Drops Israel Criticism
Specific criticism of Israel was dropped from a draft resolution prepared for a United Nations-sponsored anti-racism conference.The new draft resolution for the Durban II...
Rabbi Zelig Pliskin to Speak in Lakewood Tonight
Rabbi Zelig Pliskin, noted speaker and author from Yerushalayim, will speak in Lakewood, NJ, this evening. The topic of his lecture will be "Gateway...
The Boro Park Meat ‘Scandal’ That Wasn’t
The Lessons, The Dangers, The Truth
There are a number of lessons to be learned from the incident last night at a Boro Park eatery...
Kinnus for 51st Yahrtzeit of Rav Reuven Grozovsky zt”l
Tonight, a kinnus of chizuk for Torah and yiras Shomayim will be held to mark the 51st yahrtzeit of Rav Reuven Grozovsky zt"l, rosh...
Bush Refuses to Criticize Obama in Canada
Former President George W. Bush says he won't criticize President Barack Obama because Obama "deserves my silence," and says he plans to write a...
Olmert: Israel Will Not Accept Current Hamas Demands for Shalit
In a special press conference which followed a day of intense briefings over the status of negotiations for the release of kidnapped IDF soldier...
Feds OK Mayor Bloomberg’s Change to NYC Term-Limits Law, Allowing Him a Third Run
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's change to city term-limits law won approval from the federal government a short while ago, clearing the final hurdle for the...
The Woman Who Won a Lottery Ticket – and Built Shuls
Rare is the grandmother who doesn't love to show off her grandchildren. A framed portrait gracing the coffee table depicting a toddler romping in...
Israel’s Visiting Chief of Staff Finds Obama’s Doors Closed
Last year, Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi had no problem setting up meetings with top officials in the U.S. government. On...
Lakewood School Budget Would Raise Tax Rate 4%
Property owners in Lakewood, NJ, would see a 4 percent jump - 3.4 cents - in the school tax rate based on a 2009-10...
The Torah Zoo Comes to Boro Park
Have you ever wondered what a real Korban Pesach looked like, or what the original appearance was of the kosher and non-kosher animals mentioned...
Oldest Kollel in NYC’s Chinese Auction this Motzoei Shabbos
Kollel Ner Dovid is the Rabbinical Graduate Institute of the renowned Rabbinical Seminary of America - Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim. Talented young men go there...
Today’s Yahrtzeits & History – 21 Adar
-Rav Avraham ben Musa (1660-1733). Born to Rav Shlomo in Tutiuan, Morocco, he moved to Saly, Morocco some time before 1706, and was probably...
Negotiators Return from Cairo Without Shalit Deal
Hopes for a breakthrough that would lead to the release of captive soldier Gilad Schalit were dashed tonight when the Prime Minister's Office released...
Scholar Claims Dead Sea Scrolls ‘Authors’ Never Existed
Tim McGirk of Time Magazine reports:
Biblical scholars have long argued that the Dead Sea Scrolls were the work of an ascetic and celibate Jewish...
Video: White House – Cheney Almost As Popular As Rush, Guess Rush Was ‘Busy’
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs today brushed off Cheney's criticism of President Barack Obama's new administration (reported here on Matzav.com). He said, "I guess...
Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l, On His Yahrtzeit, Today, 20 Adar
When Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, one of the world's foremost poskim and roshei yeshiva, was niftar on 20 Adar, 5755, the local police estimated...
Four Major Jewish Food Companies Pledge to Keep Prices Down for Pesach
In response to a letter sent earlier this month to the CEOs of leading kosher food companies, Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn today announced...
Envoys Likely to Tell Olmert: No Shalit Deal Yet
Shin Bet Chief Yuval Diskin and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's special envoy, Ofer Dekel, left Cairo this evening following days of intensive negotiations over...
