Sending Girls to Seminaries and the Shidduch Crisis

7th in a Matzav.com series, By Rabbi Yitschak Rudomin MA All actions have reactions and nothing happens in a vacuum. When a girl and her parents in...

WEIGHING IN: Rebbi: Why Bochurim Were Suspended for Attending a Levayah

Dear Editor, As a member of the hanhalah of a yeshiva that penalized bochurim for going to a levayah this week, I wish to share...

The Dangerous Coalition of Non-Vaccinating Parents

Recently, it was brought to our attention that a new group, the so-called “Vaccine Coalition, a Coalition of Non-Vaccinating Parents in Lakewood, New Jersey,”...

Counting and Transforming

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz The mourning aspects of the Sefirah period have so taken over the seven weeks between Pesach and Shavuos that we can...

Rabbi Genack: VOTE FOR HILLARY – “She Understands Our Values”

By Rabbi Menachem Genack When my daughter Ora and son-in-law Avi recently gave birth to a son, they were contacted by Hillary Clinton’s staff to...

A COLLAPSING SYSTEM: A Conversation with Shadchan Mimi Levitin About the Absurd Shidduch Demands...

A COLLAPSING SYSTEM: A Conversation with Shadchan Mimi Levitin About the Absurd Shidduch Demands of Parents of Boys in Eretz Yisroel Interview by David Lichtenstein LISTEN...

Say It Already: Avi Weiss is Not Orthodox

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz What makes one Jewish person Orthodox, another Conservative, and a third Reform? What is it that has defined Orthodoxy ever since that...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Why Solving the Shidduch Crisis With the Age Gap Misses the...

Dear Editor, With all due respect, the recent discussion here about shidduchim is sorely lacking, because there is a serious flaw in the scaling calculation...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Is ‘Adamah V’Shamayim’ an Avodah Zarah Song?

Dear [email protected], I'm sure you've heard of the song Adamah V'shamayim, an often-requested song. Some people know and understand the lyrics, most don't. But 99.9%...

The Matzav Rant: What’s the Deal With Chanukah Vacation?

By Shmuel Miskin Why am I writing this article now, in the middle of the day, to be published on Matzav.com? Usually, I do my writings for...

The Matzav Shmoooze: What Will Be With Us, Bochurim?

Dear Editor, I write this letter as an insider. Not from what I hear from others. But as a bochur experiencing what I write. I am...

Watch: Dr. Meir Wikler: Keep Your Children Out of The Psychotherapist’s Office

In the following video, Dr. Meir Wikler shares the one thing parents can do to ensure that their children grow up emotionally healthy and well...

Opinion: In Defense of Lakewood Poskim, Porch Minyanim – and the True Motivation of...

By Echad Min Hachaburah, Lakewood, NJ I never in my life thought I would have to write something like this. The Lakewood Tzibur and its...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Why Do We Team Up With Mosdos That Don’t Take English...

Dear Editor, I am worried about the proposed NY State regulations that could impact yeshivos, which I have been reading about for the past half...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Thanks for Ruining My Life and Costing Me Thousands

Dear Editor, I am writing this to all the people who have ruined my Yom Tov - and a lot more. My wife and our five...

What Happens Now?

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz I recently had the good pleasure of meeting Rav Lipa Yisraelson. A grandson of Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, this lovely and...

“Shabbos, Shabbos”

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Before there were religious newspapers, the Jewish media world was owned by the maskilim. It took some time before religious Jewry...

A Fresh Start

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz The Rama (Orach Chaim 582:9) writes that on Rosh Hashanah, people should wish each other, “Leshanah tovah tikoseiv. May you...

The Matzav Shmoooze: We Must Stop the Meshugaim

Dear Editor, Rabbosai, we have meshugaim out there who aren't vaccinating their kids and are trying to get other people to follow their insanity. We...

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