Bernard-Henri Lévy: Things We Need to Stop Hearing About the ‘Stabbing Intifada’
By Bernard-Henri Lévy
It is painful to hear the phrase “lone wolves” applied to the handful — and perhaps tomorrow the dozens and then the...
Measuring Up
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The roots of the Sefirah period can be found in this week's parsha of Emor, where we learn of the korban ha'omer and the mitzvah...
Lessons from the Shocking Sentencing
By Yossi Drohr
The utter astonishment of the twenty-seven year sentence handed down to Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin seemed to have pulled the carpet out from under...
Remembering Rebbetzin Miriam Libby Weiss – Part Twenty
Join Rabbi Weiss for the Hakomas Matzeivah for his Rebbezin this coming Sunday, June 10 at the United Hebrew Cemetery in Staten Island, at...
The Super Bowl
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
I had been planning this trip for a while and was looking forward to going to Yerushalayim for Shabbos. Then the...
Palestinian President Shows The World Who He Really Is
There are two ways to understand the two-and-a-half hour rant Sunday from the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in which he called for discarding past...
Schools Are Shifting Toward No-Zero Grading Policies
School districts in the Washington, D.C., area and across the country are adopting grading practices that make it more difficult for students to flunk...
Why Bibi is Not Intimidated by Obama
By Shmuley Boteach
I'm sure Jeffrey Goldberg got it right. Whatever the reason the President leaked his unhappiness with Bibi to Goldberg just a...
Still Happy
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Here we are, days after Purim, with the feelings and sounds of joy reverberating in our souls, perplexed by what we...
Donald Trump Isn’t Running A Bad Campaign. He’s Not Really Running A Campaign At...
By Chris Cillizza
It's become commonplace in political circles to bash Donald Trump for running a bad general-election campaign since he secured the GOP nomination...
Becoming Better People
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
With Pesach behind us and Shavuos in the future, we are presently in the Sefirah period. Every evening we count how...
The Secret to Serenity
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The world around us pursues happiness, yet like an animal trying to catch its own tail it eludes them. People...
Might Does Not Make Right
By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss
As we take our yearly tour through the lessons of Bereishis, we see a study in contrasts. On the one...
The Most Overlooked Line in Netanyahu’s Address
By Robert Satloff
Since Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed Congress on Tuesday, critics and advocates have debated everything from the metaphors and alliteration...
When It Comes To Israel, Why Is The World Silent?
By Ron Prosor
Silence. Just silence from the U.N. Silence from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. And silence from major media outlets throughout the world.
Imagine for...
The Last Thing We Need is a Degenerated and Compromised Orthodoxy: A Response to...
By Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer
It’s hard to take the article seriously, due to its vast misunderstanding of what Orthodox Judaism should be as well as...
Elie Wiesel’s Undying Message: Don’t Just Memorialize. Act.
By Sara J. Bloomfield
In 1973, five years before President Jimmy Carter would appoint Elie Wiesel to chair a commission to determine how the United States...
Solomon’s Last Matzav Article
By Avi Solomon
I am thankful to Matzav.com for granting me the opportunity to campaign my message as I run for NJ State Assembly. I...
Atzeres: Developing the Special Bond
By Rabbi Naphtali Hoff
Following the Yamim Noraim, our time and attention shifted to the holiday of Succos. Succos demands much from us, with...
First Lesson Of Gaza War: Maintain The Blockade
By Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn
During the first 24 hours of the Gaza war, Palestinian terrorists fired more than two hundred rockets into Israel....
