Torah World
Tuesday April 16, 2013 9:36 PM
פרסום ראשון: Sources tell Matzav.com that the atzeres tefillah expected to be held this coming Sunday, April 21, in New York
City in light of the gezeiros being enacted by the government in Israel will not take place after all. (more…)
Tuesday April 16, 2013 4:34 PM
[Photos below.] An Israeli flag was hoisted upon the roof of Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak as it is every year on Yom Ha’atzmaut, but a group of troubled youth confronted the talmidim of the yeshiva and (more…)
Tuesday April 16, 2013 11:28 AM
Matzav.com has learned that feverish arrangements are being made for an atzeres tefillah to be held this coming Sunday, April 21, on New York (more…)
Tuesday April 16, 2013 10:42 AM
[Link below.] The link below provided by Matzav.com presents to our readers an accurate and fascinating testimony of what Rav Yosef Dov (more…)
Monday April 15, 2013 3:52 PM
Chassidim of Vizhnitz Bnei Brak will be celebrating the 68th birthday of their Rebbe, Rav Yisroel Hager of Vizhnitz, tonight. Rav Yisroel was born in 1945, three years before the creation of the State of Israel. (more…)
Monday April 15, 2013 12:18 PM
The frum man who was photographed wrapped in a large plastic bag during an El Al flight told Yediot Achronot yesterday that he was “simply following the p’sak of his rov.” (more…)
Monday April 15, 2013 7:07 AM
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rebbetzin Sarah Rasya Borenstein a”h, wife of Rav Shmuel Yaakov Borenstein, (more…)
Sunday April 14, 2013 11:07 AM
[Photos below.] This past week, Matzav.com shared with you coverage of the large chavrusah tumult at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, (more…)
Saturday April 13, 2013 9:29 PM
Rav Aharon Teitelbaum of Satmar this past week addressed the attempts to draft Israeli yeshiva bochurim into the IDF, calling it “a gezeirah worse than the annihilation of the Jewish people.” (more…)
Friday April 12, 2013 1:13 PM
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rebbetzin Malka Shurin a”h, wife of Rav Yisroel Shurin zt”l and daughter of Rav Yaakov (more…)
Friday April 12, 2013 10:02 AM
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rav Yaakov Chai Yosef zt”l, eldest son of Chacham Ovadia Yosef, at the age of 66 this (more…)
Friday April 12, 2013 8:43 AM
[Video below.] Over one hundred TorahMates volunteers gathered at Oorah on Monday night for an evening of chizuk and inspiration. (more…)
Friday April 12, 2013 8:02 AM
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rebbetzin Shaindel Bulman a”h, wife of Rav Nachman Bulman zt”l.
From 1954 to 1957 Rav Nachman served as rov in South Fallsburg and from 1957 to 1962 Rav Bulman was the head of the Adath Yeshurun Shul (more…)
Thursday April 11, 2013 1:41 PM
[Photos below.] Lakewood, NJ - A large crowd gathered yesterday and today at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, to kick off the tri-annual chavrusah tumult that takes place before each (more…)
Tuesday April 9, 2013 5:34 PM
Funding cuts affecting mekomos haTorah and governmental decisions requiring chareidi men to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces will ultimately benefit the chareidi community, Maran Rav Aharon Leib (more…)
Monday April 8, 2013 4:43 PM
Rav Yaakov Yosef, son of Chacham Ovadia Yosef, has been hospitalized in serious condition at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Yerushalayim. (more…)
Sunday April 7, 2013 8:40 AM
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rav Mallen Galinsky zt”l, the charismatic and magnetic longtime dean at Yeshivas Sha’alvim. He was 77 years old. (more…)
Thursday March 28, 2013 2:40 PM
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Monday March 25, 2013 9:59 AM
As is well known, Rav Chaim Kanievsky makes a siyum on kol haTorah kulah every year, completing Talmud Bavli, Talmud Yerushalmi, Tosefta, Sifri, Mishnayos, Shulchan Aruch, Rambam, and other segments of Torah. (more…)
Sunday March 24, 2013 8:14 PM
The pictures are broadcast to us from our Holy land, 6,000 miles away. Political protocol is strictly followed as the most powerful man in the (more…)
Sunday March 24, 2013 10:13 AM
Rav Shmuel Halevi Wosner, author of the Shevet Halevi and rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin in Bnei Brak, in a drasha on Shabbos that (more…)
Thursday March 21, 2013 11:04 AM
He was the Gadol haDor in the United States prior to Rav Moshe Feinstein zt”l. And, unfortunately, his rulings and his seforim have, by and large, been completely forgotten. (more…)
Thursday March 21, 2013 10:38 AM
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rebbetzin Chana Levenberg a”h.
Rebbetzin Levenberg was the wife of Rav Tzvi Hershel Levenberg and mother of Rav Yehuda Levenberg (Lakewood), Mrs. Devorah Goldstein (more…)
Tuesday March 12, 2013 4:04 PM
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rebbetzin Nechama Rochel Savitsky a”h, wife of Rav Yosef Savitsky, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas. (more…)
Sunday March 10, 2013 9:36 PM
[Click here for video.] 80-year-old Religious Zionist spiritual leader Rabbi Chaim Druckman accused chareidi spokesmen of hypocrisy today (more…)
Sunday March 10, 2013 8:25 PM
As coalition negotiations head into their final stretch, and with the chareidi parties seemingly out of the government for the first time since 2005, (more…)
Sunday March 10, 2013 7:47 AM
Lomdei Daf Hayomi worldwide concluded Maseches Shabbos yesterday and are beginning Maseches Eiruvin, the second masechta in Seder Moed, today.
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Sunday March 10, 2013 5:32 AM
An group of prominent leaders from a cross section of the Torah community is expected to converge on Monsey on Sunday afternoon March 17th (more…)
Thursday March 7, 2013 11:30 AM
The young chosson took some moments on his wedding day to write a letter thanking his parents for never sparing time or money if he needed, (more…)
Tuesday March 5, 2013 5:01 AM
[Levaya hookup info below.] It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rav Yerachmiel Shlomo Rothenberg zt”l, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Zichron Mayir of (more…)