All Terrorism Is Connected

By Shoshana Bryen

The Tarnaev brothers were cruelly successful, but they are far from the only terrorists over the past decade with big ideas about carnage in (more…)

Yesh Atid: Ours is the Party of the Future

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz

A forgotten chapter of the modern Jewish experience in Eretz Yisroel relates to the vicious clashes that took place regarding tefillah at the (more…)

Liberal-Leaning Salon: ‘Let’s Hope The Boston Marathon Bomber Is White American’

The following left-leaning, liberal-minded, almost silly analysis by David Sirota appears on Salon. Hold your nose before you proceed:

As we now move into the official Political Aftermath period of the Boston bombing - the period that will determine the long-term legislative (more…)

A Jewish Message of Hope and Courage Following The Boston Marathon Bombing

By Rabbi Avraham Edelstein

Israelis know from their horrible experiences with terrorism that “three dead” is only one part of a story of lost limbs, suffering- individual and (more…)

Savage Ignorance

By Rabbi Avi Shafran

It’s difficult to know whether shock-jock Michael Savage is in fact the actual person whose Bronx-accented ranting emanates daily from radios (more…)

Fayyad’s Departure Is Bad for Everyone

By Jonathan Tobin

The resignation of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is a pivotal moment in the history of the conflict between Israel and the (more…)

Only Blood Remained

By David Abel

The woman’s eyes stared vacantly into the sky.

The runners had been bounding in, beaming with relief. On both sides of Boylston Street, hundreds of spectators still had packed the area, many (more…)

An Inspiring Study - And A Lesson In Jewish Honesty

By Adina

I want to share this inspiring story with the readers of Matzav.com. (more…)

“Women of the Wall”: As if we Don’t Have Enough Problems Already

By Rabbi Moshe Averick

A group called “Women of the Wall” is in the news again. For some time now they have been demanding the “right” to conduct feminist prayer (more…)

Where Was The President When He Was Supposedly In Israel?

By Alyza D. Lewin

What a week it was for Jerusalem. The President of the United States arrived, transformed the King David Hotel into his (and his entourage’s) (more…)

Would You Name Your Kid “Sword”?

By Harold Rhode

Would we name our children Warrior, Conqueror, Sword, or Holy War? These are the meanings of personal names commonly used in the Muslim (more…)

Seminary Challenges: Shabbos Meals and More

The following is the first in a series of articles presented by Matzav.com with Seminary and Beyond aimed at providing guidance to girls studying in seminary in Eretz Yisroel:

Shabbosim are often the highlight of the seminary experience. Your seminary will probably have shabbatonim and/or “in Shabbosim” once or (more…)

The Impact of Idiom

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz

Some years ago, I was in a small, idyllic, mountain town often favorably compared to the famous Swiss towns. While visiting there, I met a young (more…)

Will the Guardian be Inspired by AP and Stop Referring to Jews as “Illegal”?

By Adam Levick

Associated Press, one of the largest news agencies in the world, will no longer use the term “illegal immigrant” to describe those who migrate to a (more…)

Rockets, Hate and Kerry’s Fool’s Errand

By Jonathan Tobin

Two weeks have passed since President Obama spoke to an audience of Israeli students and urged them to pressure their government to make (more…)

Don’t Misunderstand Khamenei’s Nuclear Fatwa

By Ariane Tabatabai

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has reiterated a number of times that the use of nuclear weapons is prohibited under Islamic law. One (more…)

Israel’s High-Tech Pipeline to the U.S.

By Michael Eisenstadt and David Pollock

Why did President Obama visit Israel last week, on the first foreign trip of his second term? The U.S. and (more…)

How Iran Could Get the Bomb Overnight

Edward Jay Epstein is the author of the just-published Annals of Unsolved Crime, one chapter of which addresses the case of Amanda Knox. (more…)

Tonight: Remember Our Brothers

Dear friends,

Today is Erev Pesach, a busy day, so I will keep it short.

Tonight, we will sit down at the Seder. How fortunate we are! Some of our brethren are not so lucky. I think of our good friend, R’ Sholom (more…)

Pesach and the “Enlightened Ashkenazi Elitists”

A View of Current Events in Eretz Yisroel Through the Prism of Our History

By Avrohom Birnbaum

The Yom Tov of Pesach is upon us. Pesach is the Yom Tov of our birth as a nation and the Yom Tov that perhaps more than any other symbolizes (more…)

The Coalition Plan For Chareidim

By Yitzchok Adlerstein

The coalition government government’s plan for drafting charedim should give rise to some sighs of relief, and some guarded optimism. That is (more…)

Did Israel ‘Apologize’ to Turkey? Well, No, Not Exactly

By Barry Rubin

Israel apologizes to Turkey, reads every headline. That simply isn’t true in the sense it is taken to imply. To understand what happened one must (more…)

The Most Important Paragraph of Obama’s Entire Israel Trip

By Seth Mandel

This past week, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon received two significant mentions in the press. The first was from President Obama, (more…)

Linking Generations

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz

Some of the most dramatic and compelling stories of the Second World War period revolve around the awful parting moments, when parents (more…)

Some Words of Advice to Obama on His Israel Visit

Dear Barack Obama,

First of all, we welcome you to Israel - as we would any world leader. In the Jewish culture, the land of Israel is considered to be above all other (more…)

Doh Is Lichtig

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz

It has been said that Jewish history is quite simple. (more…)

The True Source of Religious-Secular Tension in Israel: The Arrogance of Ben-Gurion (and now Naftali Bennett)

By Rabbi Moshe Averick

As the latest round of coalition-building maneuvering plays out in Israel - with Bibi Netanyahu, Naftali Bennett (the new false-messiah of religious (more…)

Who Are These Moralists?

By Douglas Murray

With Israel, every death is investigated, every movement protested against. Yet when it comes to the wholesale slaughter in Syria, there is just a (more…)

The Truth About Pollard

By Jonathan Tobin

Last week, the Knesset took up the issue of Jonathan Pollard, the American Jew who has been serving a life sentence for spying on the United (more…)

Dos Yiddishe Mensch

By Rabbi Avi Shafran

If you’ve noticed a little less dignity, geniality and nobility in the world of late, it may be because we no longer have Reb Yosef Friedenson here (more…)