Readers’ Matzav: Why I Go to a Hotel for Pesach

Dear Matzav.com Editor, I have been finding the Jewish holidays more painful each year. I am a female, 59-year-old, attractive single, with no children and...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Thank You, Dr. Roberts, for Protecting Our Health

Dear [email protected], I wish to use this opportunity on Matzav.com to thank Dr. Kasriel Roberts for the wonderful Chol Hamoed carnival that he sponsored yesterday...

The Matzav Shmoooze: A Stab in the Chest

Dear [email protected], It seems like yesterday that we were in yeshiva together, first in the States and then in Eretz Yisroel. Upon returning to Lakewood,...

What Is Mussar?

by Yisroel Schor What is mussar? What is the movement all about and what is the underlying truth our masters are trying to portray to...

Kiddush Hashem: Letter to Matzav

Dear Matzav.com Editor, I was shopping at the ShopRite store in Lakewood, NJ, last week, when I experienced what was a tremendous kiddush Hashem. I had...

Small Business Saturday Nuttiness

By C. Popper There's an upcoming Yom-tov I must address, It's small business Saturday From American Express. When all stores will open A second after havdalah, So the lovers of...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Yomim Ruining Weddings

Dear Editor, Thank you for providing this useful and interesting forum for the frum community. Some may scoff at the issue I would like to raise,...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Stop Fighting…For Your Kids

Dear readers, As an elementary school teacher, I have had a few students whose parents divorced. I don't ask why the parents divorced or if...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Teaching About JFK

Dear Editor, As a rebbi, I took the opportunity to discuss with my class the Kennedy assassination. I was amazed by how much I was...

The Matzav Shmooze: The Impact of the Tuition Crisis On My Life

Dear Readers, I would like to present my own experience with the tuition crisis and the impact it has had on my life. I grew up...

It’s Tu B’Av – Put the Girls in the Freezer

By Elisha Ferber We've heard it over and over again: there are too many girls in the parsha of shidduchim, and too few boys to...

The Kosel Compromise and the Conversion Bill – Some Final Thoughts

Avrohom Gordimer Although my thoughts on the apparent collapse of the Western Wall Compromise Plan are all pretty much contained here (along with a link...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Frumkeit and Father’s Day

Dear readers, Today is Father's Day. What a wonderful concept. Of course, we Yidden celebrate Father's Day and Mother's Day every single day. We don't...

Open Letter of Appreciation To The Lakewood Volunteer Fire Dept

Dear Editor, I’m taking this opportunity to pen a few lines of appreciation to all the members of the Lakewood Volunteer Fire Department for their...

Neglect at Bais Hachaim in NJ

Dear Editor, I passed by a Bais Hachaim, Grove Street in Newark, NJ, again this week and was disturbed to find that nothing has improved, on...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Enough NASI Bashing

Dear Editor, I am writing in response to your story here on Matzav yesterday titled "Will NASI Give Them Money? Couple Ages 88 and 87 Get...

A Reader Writes: The Mitzvah of Donating a Kidney

Dear Editor, I am an Orthodox Jewish woman who donated a kidney altruistically to a stranger. Since my kidney donation I have been wanting to...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Confused About Lag Ba’omer

Dear readers, There is something about Lag Ba'omer that I just cannot understand. I understand that we celebrate this special day for a number of...

An Open Letter To Ramaz Students

Dear Ramaz Students, Last week, over 830 of you signed a petition to Ramaz dean and spiritual leader Rabbi Haskel Lookstein to protest his decision...

The Matzav Shmoooze: The Bar Yochai Cult

Dear Editor, I have a pet peeve about the Lag B'Omer festivities just completed and the misrepresentation of Rav Shimon Bar Yochai by some fringe...

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