One Heart, One Destination

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz As I write this, I am sitting on an airplane, flying to Eretz Yisroel to spend the Yom Tov of...

Matzav Inbox: Please Don’t Clap at the Adirei HaTorah Event This Sunday

Dear Editor@Matzav, With the upcoming Adirei Hatorah event this Sunday, I believe it is essential to discuss a matter that concerns the etiquette, hashkafah and...

Matzav Inbox: Cost of Living is Up, So Where’s My Raise?

Dear Editor@Matzav, I am writing to express my deep frustration with bosses who consistently refuse to provide raises, despite the rising cost of living. It...

Matzav Inbox: Is This Too Much To Ask From My Guests?

Dear [email protected], Over the last two months, I've had guests almost every week for simchos - aufrufs, sheva brachos, bar mitzvahs, etc. I am appalled...

Matzav Inbox: Weak Shavuos Night Food

Dear [email protected], I write this letter with utmost frustration and disappointment regarding a matter that has deeply troubled me. It pertains to the abhorrent lack...

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...

Matzav Inbox: The Slowpokes Clogging Our Roads

Dear Editor@Matzav, I am writing this letter with a profound sense of frustration and annoyance regarding an issue that continues to plague our roadways and...

Matzav Inbox: Why I Live in Chutz Laaretz: The Disgusting Anti-Chareidi Rhetoric is Not...

Dear Matzav Editor, I write this letter to express my perspective as a frum Jew who has chosen not to live in Eretz Yisroel, particularly...

MATZAV INBOX: Lunch On a Tuesday – Do These People Have Jobs?

Dear Editor, I write this letter with a mixture of curiosity and bewilderment, wondering if I am the only woman in our community who has...

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...

LISTEN: A Gut Yom Tov Am Yisrael!

Tzvi Moshe Arnstein from the Tzion Minute podcast shares a fresh perspective on why the Yom Haatzmaut celebrations in Israel, are your celebration too. Listen...

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...

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