Jewish Community
Sunday May 19, 2013 9:48 AM
By Michael Freund
Last Friday, the Western Wall underwent an unwelcome transformation from sacred site to media circus as the group known as the Women of (more…)
Friday May 17, 2013 1:32 PM
[Video below.] Gilad Shalit recently bentched Gomel for the first time since being released following his lengthy incarceration at the hands of (more…)
Friday May 17, 2013 9:26 AM
By Rabbi Moshe Averick
It seems that Yesh Atid MK (Member Knesset) Dov Lipman was upset that Rav Aharon Feldman, the Rosh Yeshiva (Dean) of Ner Israel (more…)
Friday May 17, 2013 4:50 AM
Wheels To Lease, a car leasing company in Brooklyn, was a corporate sponsor in this year’s Hatzolah auction, held on May 4th - May 6th. The (more…)
Friday May 17, 2013 4:20 AM
Misaskim was notified this week about the sudden passing of Mr. Errington Albert Bailey, a dedicated and compassionate staff member at the (more…)
Thursday May 16, 2013 9:34 PM
[Video below.] Tens of thousands of Yidden gathered in Yerushalayim tonight to protest plans to enlist bnei yeshiva into the IDF. (more…)
Tuesday May 14, 2013 1:17 PM
Finance Minister Yair Lapid has accused Shas leader Aryeh Deri of lying and making it “impossible for us to ever cooperate with him on issues (more…)
Tuesday May 14, 2013 11:34 AM
The Jerusalem Archaeological Park and Davidson Center, located south of the Kosel, is widely considered the most important (more…)
Tuesday May 14, 2013 8:35 AM
Matzav.com would like to wish its readers all over the globe a chag sameiach. As we celebrate our 3,325th anniversary since receiving the Torah at Har Sinai, we are reminded of the supremacy of Torah (more…)
Tuesday May 14, 2013 1:17 AM
As Matzav.com continues to serve as the worldwide leading Torah community news site on the Web, we owe our gratitude to you, our loyal readers, for allowing this site to flourish and bring about positivity and kiddush Hashem each (more…)
Monday May 13, 2013 7:49 PM
[Video below. Minn - A 15 year old girl from Yerushalayim came all the way to Minnesota for her second kidney transplant, but once in (more…)
Monday May 13, 2013 5:22 PM
Economics Minister Naftali Bennett said he would not allow Hesder yeshivas to be damaged by proposed changes in service requirements. The (more…)
Monday May 13, 2013 3:13 PM
Despite the perception that Religious Zionist institutions were likely to be favored over chareidi institutions due to the composition of the present (more…)
Monday May 13, 2013 9:22 AM
As the Dov Lipman saga continues to rage on and there is greater awareness in the Orthodox world of his true motives and beliefs, Matzav.com presents Dov’s policies, goals and feelings - in his own words - culled from interviews he has given and comments he has made. (more…)
Monday May 13, 2013 3:42 AM
A large-bodied Arab man attacked an elderly Jew in Yerushalayim’s Old City on Shabbos. The victim’s daughter, Tali Hoffman, told Arutz Sheva (more…)
Monday May 13, 2013 1:57 AM

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Sunday May 12, 2013 6:07 PM
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Kovalkin of Neria, in the Binyamin region, was brutally beaten May 4 at the Doar Junction near his community together with another Jew, Aharon Zlatkin, 53. (more…)
Sunday May 12, 2013 5:30 PM
When a suicide bomb ripped through a pizzeria in downtown Yerushalayim in 2001, killing 15 and wounding 130 more, 13-year-old Izzy Ezagui, who was visiting from America, found his calling. (more…)
Sunday May 12, 2013 12:23 PM
Parents, grandparents, alumni and others will join the Jewish Educational Center of Elizabeth, NJ, as it celebrates the 50th year anniversary of its (more…)
Sunday May 12, 2013 11:27 AM
Dear Editor,
As a reader, I would like to chime in on the Dov Lipman matter. (more…)
Friday May 10, 2013 8:10 AM
[Photos below.] Lakewood - An asifa was held at two Lakewood, NJ, banquet halls last night to offer words of hisorerus and guidance in light of (more…)
Friday May 10, 2013 7:18 AM
[Photos below.] Brooklyn - An asifa was held on 18th Avenue in Boro Park, Brooklyn, last night to offer words of hisorerus and guidance in (more…)
Thursday May 9, 2013 5:26 PM
A Torah Based Exchange - An Open Response to an Open Letter
Note: Matzav.com obtained various email exchanges between Yisroel Besser, Contributing Editor for Mishpacha Magazine, and MK Dov (more…)
Thursday May 9, 2013 4:17 PM
Senior religious Zionist rabbis are uniting for the first time in their own battle against the Women of the Wall, issuing a letter calling not to allow liberal (more…)
Thursday May 9, 2013 1:50 PM
The newly established Flatbush Jewish Community Coalition is being widely hailed by a cross-section of leading roshei yeshiva, rabbonim and (more…)
Thursday May 9, 2013 9:51 AM
The provocation and danger posed by the “Women of the Wall,” that group which descends upon the Western Wall each Rosh Chodesh with (more…)
Thursday May 9, 2013 7:17 AM
The Loews Hotel in Santa Monica features one of an estimated 40 designated kosher kitchens in the US. As many as 10 hotels have responded to a (more…)
Wednesday May 8, 2013 9:10 AM
This coming Friday, members of the Women of the Wall organization will be able, for the first time, to “pray” at the Kosel plaza wearing a tallis (more…)
Wednesday May 8, 2013 8:40 AM
The following statement was released by the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA): “In light of the recent announcement that Yeshivat Maharat (more…)
Wednesday May 8, 2013 7:38 AM

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