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Israeli Study: Music Therapy Helps Deaf Children With Cochlear Implants

Toddlers undergoing rehabilitation after a cochlear implant are under intense pressure to begin talking. New research from Israel suggests that music therapy can help...

Gedolim Publicly Denounce Chillul Hashem of Vos Iz Neias and its Advertisers; Issue Issur...

Over thirty rabbonim and roshei yeshiva in the United States have signed a kol korei denouncing the Vos Iz Neias (VIN) news blog...

Long Islander Raffling Off Million-Dollar Home

The current housing market is bright for first time home buyers, but for those trying to sell million-dollars homes, it could be a big...

Members of Congress to Dirshu President: “We Stand Behind Chareidi Jewry in the United...

Members of Congress in Washington embrace the chareidi community: Throughout the year, the President of Dirshu, Rav David Hofstedter, is busy – beyond his...

Halacha Berurah: Thanksgiving Celebrations and Adapting Customs of Akum

By Rabbi Elli Bohm Reviewed By HaRav Yisroel Belsky It is vital to make two points clear at the onset of this article. Firstly, we will...

MBD Continues Effort to Curb Rampant Copying of CDs; Matzav Interviews Rabbi Elli Bohm

Exclusive interview with the author of the first revised copyright language for Jewish music albums: Mordechai Ben David, who has long been vocal about people...

Video: Palestinian Woman Stabs Israeli Soldier

A video appearing on the video-sharing Web site Youtube yesterday contains first-hand footage of a Palestinian female terrorist stabbing a civilian security guard...

Get Paid Just for Driving Your Car

You probably have heard stories about businesses that will pay you just to drive around with an advertisement on your car, but do these...

Underwear Bomber Renews Calls for ‘Naked Scanners’

After an alleged terrorist unsuccessfully tried to detonate his explosive underwear on a Friday flight to Detroit, current and former American officials are now...

Black Friday Deals 2009: Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Macy’s and Kohl’s

Tomorrow is Black Friday and shoppers are gearing up for the best available deals. Here are few of the in-strore deals Americans are seeing:...

Breaking News: Heinz Revamps Ketchup Packets

The ketchup packet has been around for more than 40 years, and complaints about it for nearly as long: too messy, too small, too...

CBS and Pepsi Bring Video Ads to Printed Page

When some readers of Entertainment Weekly open their magazines next month, they will discover characters from US television programmes speaking to them from a...

Halacha Berurah: Halachic, Historical, and Medical Overview of Metzitzah B’Peh

In light of recent media highlights questioning the time honored custom of metzitzah b'peh, Matzav.com would like to present to its readers a complete...

Boruch Dayan Ha’emes: Body of Nine-Year-Old Leiby Kletzky Hy”d Found

Pinned: 5:22 a.m. EST: Breaking News: Updated: We regret to inform you that the body of nine-year-old Leiby Kletzky's body has been found. Police...

One of the Toughest Riddles Ever?

Yahoo News yesterday had a report on what is considered one of the "toughest riddles ever," a classic paradox involving a barber that may...

Video: וְרָאוּ כָּל עַמֵּי הָאָרֶץ כִּי שֵׁם ה’ נִקְרָא עָלֶיךָ וְיָרְאוּ מִמֶּךָּ – אלו...

A flight from New York's La Guardia Airport was diverted to Philadelphia after a bomb scare this morning. US Air flight 3079 from...

Conservative? Sen.-Elect Brown Says He Supports Woman’s Right to Choose

Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown of Massachusetts says he opposes federal funding for ending pregnancies, but thinks women should have the right to choose. Brown tells...

Video: Rabbi Shmully Hecht Challenges Professor Goldstone at Yale

Rabbi Shmully Hecht, advisor to Eliezer, the Jewish society at Yale University, confronted Judge Richard Goldstone last week when he delivered an address...

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...

Scientists Discover the Secret of Aging

One of the biggest puzzles in biology - how and why living cells age - has been solved by an international team based at...

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