Shidduch Fraud

By Larry Gordon   Why is it that in these somewhat advanced and contemporary times we  allow the idea of seeking matrimonial matches for our children...

A Reader Writes: A Friend of the Kallah

Dear Editor, I am a twenty-one-year-old single girl. I am writing to Matzav.com about the topic of - surprise, surprise - engagements. There is an issue...

The Matzav Shmoooze: How to Solve Your Personal Shidduch Crisis

Dear readers, The shidduch crisis is clearly a result of a numbers problem. The age gap between the boys and girls creates a situation where...

Media Malarky: Mocking a Giant

Dear [email protected], Some people in the frum community were absolutely giddy over supposedly pro-frum editorials in the New York tabloids of late - even...

The Matzav Shmoooze: How Much More?

Dear Editor, How much longer will it take to learn? When will we wake up and do teshuvah? We are losing people right and left....

Follow-Up: The Danger Of YCT And Its Extreme Left Wing Agenda

Dear Editor and readers, This is a follow-up to yesterday's report by Matzav.com that Yeshivat Chovevei Torah graduate Rabbi Simon Livson has officially been...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Fed Up

Dear Editor, I fully understand the need to try to get people to enter a site to raise funds, get new customers, etc. I...

The Matzav Shmoooze: So Much Yeshiva Bashing – Here’s a Nice Tidbit

Dear Matzav Editor, I've seen a lot of posts online recently about various groups bashing the chareidi community and specifically making it seem as if...

Matzav Inbox: Why Have Our Weddings Turned Into Disco Clubs?

Dear [email protected], I am writing to express my concern about the loud and non-Jewish-sounding music that is often played at Yiddishe weddings. As someone who values...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Sky-High Pesach Food Prices

Dear Editor, Maybe some of your readers can help me, because I am lost. I am having trouble understand why Pesach food is so, so,...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Crying Over Meat

Dear readers, As editors and frum American publications in general are scrambling to justify the publication of an advertisement that seems to have angered many readers...

The Matzav Shmoooze: A Response from Rabbi Rothstein

To the Editor, A good friend brought to my attention the letter you posted regarding my recent appearance on the Zev Brenner show. It's...

Readers’ Matzav: Helping People Find Jobs

Dear Editor@Matzav, I read on Matzav.com of the need to hire frum people through the Emergency Parnossoh Initiative. I wanted to help, as I have...

A New, Ugly Wrinkle in the Tuition Crisis

Dear Editor, I take the liberty of sharing some very important thoughts from Yitzchok Adlerstein on Cross-Currents regarding the tuition crisis. I present some excerpts of...

Matzav Inbox: Sheva Brachos, Parlor Meeting and Other Out-of-Control Spending

Dear Editor, I am writing to express my concern over the excessive spending on Sheva Brachos, parlor meetings, and so on in our communities. It...

Readers’ Matzav: Sefardi Girls and the Shidduch Crisis

Dear Editor, I have read countless letters and articles here, on Matzav.com, regarding the shidduch crisis. But let me tell you something. You think that...

Readers’ Matzav: Help Me Switch Judah Out of Public School

Dear Matzav.com Editor, I am a yeshiva bochur learning in a yeshiva in Lakewood. I recently got to know a wonderful family that is distanced...

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...

Op-Ed: An Open Letter to Matisyahu

Dear Matisyahu, The reports, have been a bit devastating. First came the beard. Now, it seems, your appearances are sans Yarmulkah. What happened? We were, for...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Super Bowl Hock – What Has Happened to Us?

Dear Editor, I am greatly shterred by all the attention paid to the Suber Bowl. It is not a Yiddishe event. If some people can't...

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