Open the Door

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz In this week’s parsha of Pekudei, the posuk states, “All the work necessary for the Mishkon was completed, as the Jewish...

The Secret of Happiness

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz This Shabbos, we announce the arrival of the second month of Adar, granting us another opportunity to take advantage of the...

Tobin: Harris and Gantz Are Playing Politics With Israel’s Future

By Jonathan S. Tobin For five months, the Biden administration has been talking out of both sides of its mouth about the war between Israel...

My Father’s Tefillin

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz In Parshas Ki Sisa, we learn one of the most tragic occurrences in our history, from which we suffer until today:...

Double Joy

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Think about it. If this year wasn’t a leap year, we would be celebrating Purim this week. Instead, Purim is a...

Bring the Light

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Our world, once again, is in a precarious situation. Actually, it has been this way since Covid spread throughout the world,...

Analysis: Rescue Op A Vital Mini-Success On The Way To Overall Victory In Gaza

By Yaakov Lappin The overnight rescue operation of Israeli hostages Louis Har, 70, and Fernando Marman, 60, on Monday is a critical Israeli mini-success in...

Listen

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Life has become complicated of late. The world says that there is a communication explosion, but in reality, it is anything...

Matzav Inbox: Disgusted by Local Stores’ “Super Bowl Specials”

Dear Editor@Matzav, I am sickened beyond words. I live in Lakewood, NJ. And I am disgusted by the recent advertising of “Super Bowl specials” by local...

Dennis Ross Is Blaming Israel Again

By Moshe Phillips Former U.S. Middle East envoy Dennis Ross just can’t stop blaming Israel. Speaking via Zoom for the Institute for the Study of...

Analysis: It’s Biden Who’s Playing Politics With The Gaza War, Not Bibi

By Jonathan S. Tobin  Israeli Prime Minister BNibi Netanyahu’s reputation as a master political schemer and a cynical seeker of power is so deeply embedded...

Living with Depth

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Parshas Yisro recounts the great day when Hashem gave the Torah to Am Yisroel, setting us apart and giving us the...

The Roller Coaster of Life

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz After learning the first parshiyos of Shemos, we arrive this week at Parshas Beshalach, which depicts the exit of the Bnei...

Rabbi Ronnie Greenwald zt”l, Upon His Yahrtzeit

by Suri Cohen Community activist, international spy swapper and hostage mediator, political mastermind, mentor for troubled teens, beloved camp director and dedicated Jew. The last text...

Bursts of Light

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz These weeks we study the parshiyos of the Torah that lead up to our exit from Mitzrayim after generations of our...

Sing in the Darkness

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Let your mind paint the scene. At the time that Paroh decreed that all Jewish baby boys be killed upon birth,...

Golus Mentality

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz We are now almost three months into the Gaza War, which began when thousands of Hamas terrorists crossed into Israel from...

The Lens of Golus

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz The Jewish people were blessed with three avos. Yaakov Avinu was the av of golus. He was the one who left...

Dershowitz: Iran Declared War on the United States

By Alan Dershowitz Iran has now engaged in a deliberate act of war — casus belli — on numerous occasions against the United States. Most...

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