Getting Back to What’s Real

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz My dear friend, Rav Lipa Yisraelson, recently published the latest volume in his Siach Ish series of seforim on Yomim...

Who We Are

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Since the second day of Pesach, we have been counting towards the first day of Shavuos. Each day, we have been...

MATZAV INBOX: Outrageous Cost of Frum Summer Sleep-Away Camps

Dear Editor, I am writing to express my deep concern and frustration regarding the exorbitant costs associated with frum summer sleep-away camps. I have witnessed firsthand...

What Is Islamic Jihad? The New York Times Misleads Its Readers About the Answer

By Ira Stoll The New York Times is covering Israel’s counterterrorism operation in Gaza by whitewashing the terrorist organization’s goals. Under the headline, “What Is Islamic...

Reaching the Heavens

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Sefer Vayikra comes to an end this week as we lain the parshiyos of Behar and Bechukosai. Both open with the...

Why is President Biden Afraid of News Conferences?

The following editorial appears in The Washington Post: President Biden hasn't dropped the microphone; he appears to have lost it. Biden is turning into a...

New York Times Reporter Lied in the Anti-Yeshivos Expose

By Tony Kinnet, Daily Signal Following an 18-part investigative series in The New York Times alleging various forms of maleducation and malfeasance in New York City yeshivas, the New...

A Battle For The Soul

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz The news landed like a thud. A heavily edited, carefully scripted and produced three-minute video announced that Joe Biden was running...

What It Means to Be Holy

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz We live in a bizarre period in history. We see things transpiring in this country and across the world that are...

A Kidney Transplant Changed My Mind About Orthodox Jews

By Meryl Ain On a freezing day last March, 24 hours after my husband had a kidney transplant, I stood in a long line...

Keep That Spirit

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz We just recently completed observing the eight-day Yom Tov of Pesach, which celebrated our freedom - geulah - from Mitzrayim. After...

THE PIECE THAT IS CAUSING PANIC: ‘Death To Israel’: The Iranian Plan To Attack...

By Mordechai Kedar I hesitated quite a bit about whether to publish this piece because of the panic it might cause in Israel. However,...

Continuing the Chain

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Pesach is a Yom Tov of chinuch. The Gemara derives the concept of the Seder from the posuk of “vehigadeta...

The Door to Redemption

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz With the arrival of the month of Nissan, yeshivos are going into bein hazemanim, girls are being let out to...

Washington Post Slams Israel; Distorts Terrorist Attacks That Killed Equivalent of 500 Americans

By Sean Durns The Washington Post used a Jewish holiday to attack the Jewish state. The Post’s March 7, 2023, report treated antisemites as credible sources and omitted key information about...

Keep It Going

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz This week’s parsha of Ki Sisa contains peaks of glory and splendor, depths of catastrophe, and a cataclysmic blow, followed...

Happy is the Jewish Way

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Purim was approaching and the people were apprehensive. And who could blame them? It was 1941 and they were in...

Lighting the Flame

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz As we study Parshas Terumah, we learn of the keruvim (Shemos 25:20), images of angelic young children with cherubic faces...

Rav Shea Fishman zt”l

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Some people come into your life and never really leave. They make a mark on you, influencing, inspiring and teaching....

On Reading the News

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz The Alter of Kelm had a stone fence put up around the yeshiva building he headed in Kelm. The fence...

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