Auschwitz Sees Record 1.3 Million Visitors In 2009
International interest in the most prominent symbol of the Nazi death machine, the Auschwitz concentration camp, remains high, with a record number of visitors...
Habochur Eliyahu Bronspigel z”l
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of habochur Eliyahu Bronspigel at the tender age of 13, less than two months...
A Year Later, Waterbury Mikvah Still Delayed
Penny Overton of The Republican American reports: Waterbury's Orthodox Jewish community has completed constructing its mikvah, but a series of setbacks - ranging from...
Jordan to Canada: Give Us the Dead Sea Scrolls
Jordan has asked Canada to seize the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea scrolls, on display until tomorrow at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, invoking international...
Poll: Only 40% of Jews Live in Israel
Most of the world's Jews do not live in Israel, says a poll summing up the past decade. There are currently 13.3 million Jews...
Video: Chassidishe Family Has First Baby of 2010 at Mount Sinai
WPIX NY reports: Just 13 seconds after the ball dropped, baby "new year" came bouncing into the world. "We're proud, very happy, very excited,"...
Video, Photos: Langert Appointed Mayor of Lakewood at Re-Organizational Meeting
This morning, Lakewood Township held its 117th Township Committee Re-Organizational at Town Hall on Third Street. Committeemen Meir Lichtenstein and R' Menashe Lichtenstein...
OU’s Nach Yomi Cycle Completed by Youngest Person ever, Menachem Gans, 12, of Paramus
The Orthodox Union's Nach Yomi program, in which a perek of Nach - Nevi'im and Kesuvim - is completed every day, just had its...
Guma Aguiar Honored as ‘Builder of Jerusalem’ by Aish HaTorah
Yesterday, Aish HaTorah presented Guma Aguiar with its coveted "Builder of Jerusalem" Award at at the yeshiva's 2009 Boneh Yerushalayim Awards dinner in Yerushalayim....
Hikind Wants Holocaust Education In Local Frum Schools
As the number of Holocaust survivors dwindles each year, the Jewish community increasingly faces the daunting challenge of ensuring that the next generation is...
Frum Jews and Our Life of “Financial Impossibility”
By Rabbi Yosef Shubert, Matzav.com
I am fascinated by a poll being conducted by Matzav.com at the left-hand side of this page. According to the...
Shmuley Boteach: I Might Run For Office
The JTA reports that Rabbi Shmuley Boteach says he is considering a run for public office after local officials failed to prevent a Libyan...
Ring in Shawarma Delays Israeli Wedding
Hadas and Tzachi Medina from Yavneh planned their wedding down to the smallest detail, together. Yet, they never imagined that minutes before their wedding,...
ADL Disputes Claim that Pope Pius XII Saved Jews During WWII
The Anti-Defamation League took the Catholic Church to task this week, disputing "historical evidence" cited by Church officials as proof that WWII-era Pope Pius...
Video: US Billionaire Adelson On Young Ambassadors for Israel
Yoni Kempinski of Arutz Sheva reports: Arutz Sheva TV met American billionaire businessman Sheldon Adelson at the arrival ceremony for the Taglit-Birthright Israel...
Ha’eidah Expands, Receives Facelift
"Ha'Eidah," the weekly publication of the Eidah Hachareidis, has undergone a facelift. Among the changes at Ha'eidah is the introduction of a magazine, titled...
Audio: Powerful Response from Rav Mayer Twersky On Toeivah Forum
As we reported yesterday, several rabbeim at Yeshiva University have come out in strong protest this week regarding a gathering held last week...
Perfidy in Iowa: The Saga of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin
As reported here on Matzav.com, this past Monday night, almost 2,000 woman and girls from all backgrounds gathered at Boro Park's Young Israel...
Subway Remains Committed but Kosher Franchise Suddenly Shrinks; Mendy’s New King
The sign on the Avenue J site of the Subway's restaurant chain read "Immediately Available" signifying the possible end of an experiment on one...
Record 11th Divorce Granted To Jewish Israeli Man
A 50-year-old man from Yerushalayim has been granted a divorce for the 11th time, a new Israeli record for Jews according to a baid...
