http://matzav.com Mon, 21 May 2012 05:04:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://matzav.com/live-updates-from-asifa-in-queens http://matzav.com/live-updates-from-asifa-in-queens#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 23:00:42 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=77243 [UPDATED: MULTIPLE AUDIO FILES BELOW. Full live updates below. EVENT HAS CONCLUDED, 11:25 p.m. EST.] Flushing, NY - 6:50 p.m.: There has not yet been a main communal Minchah at Citi Field. Some smaller, impromptu minyanim have been formed, but the scheduled main minyan has not taken place as of yet. At Arthur Ashe Stadium, Rabbi [...]]]> http://matzav.com/live-updates-from-asifa-in-queens/feed http://matzav.com/asifa-set-to-get-underway-in-queens http://matzav.com/asifa-set-to-get-underway-in-queens#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 22:34:30 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=77241 [Photos below.] The majority of the thousands attended the asifa this evening Citi Field and Arthur Ashe stadiums in Queens, NY, have arrived there and are finding their seats. The asifa organized by Ichud Hakehillos will explore the negative impact that technology may have on our youth. Numerous agencies have participated in coordinating the security [...]]]> http://matzav.com/asifa-set-to-get-underway-in-queens/feed http://matzav.com/google-chairman-turn-off-your-computer-for-one-hour-a-day http://matzav.com/google-chairman-turn-off-your-computer-for-one-hour-a-day#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 22:19:46 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=77237 Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt challenged college graduates on Sunday to take the radical step — at least for their generation — of tearing their eyes away from their smartphones and computer screens. “Take one hour a day and turn that thing off,” Schmidt told graduates at Boston University, where he received an honorary [...]]]> http://matzav.com/google-chairman-turn-off-your-computer-for-one-hour-a-day/feed http://matzav.com/i-want-to-say-thank-you-but-cannot-find-the-words http://matzav.com/i-want-to-say-thank-you-but-cannot-find-the-words#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 21:22:46 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=77239 By Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman Story Number One One day a young teacher in a Yeshiva Day School whose staff was Chareidi - although the student body was what we refer to as “Modern Orthodox’ and therefore positively inclined to The State of Israel- walked into the school office. The young teacher was told by the secretary that [...]]]> http://matzav.com/i-want-to-say-thank-you-but-cannot-find-the-words/feed http://matzav.com/iran-sanctions-could-push-oil-to-160-per-barrel http://matzav.com/iran-sanctions-could-push-oil-to-160-per-barrel#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 20:11:16 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=77235 Iranian Economy Minister Shamseddin Hosseini said international oil prices will rise under sanctions designed to persuade the Persian Gulf nation to abandon its nuclear program. Oil prices might go as high as $160 per barrel if the European Union goes ahead with a July 1 embargo, Hosseini told CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” in an interview [...]]]> http://matzav.com/iran-sanctions-could-push-oil-to-160-per-barrel/feed http://matzav.com/olmert-yerushalayim-must-be-divided http://matzav.com/olmert-yerushalayim-must-be-divided#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 19:36:23 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=77232 Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert today urged Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Yerushalayim if they truly want peace, contending in a pair of interviews that years of government neglect have kept the Jewish and Arab sectors irreparably divided. The comments, made as Israel marked the 45th anniversary of capturing east [...]]]> http://matzav.com/olmert-yerushalayim-must-be-divided/feed http://matzav.com/70000-expected-at-kever-of-shmuel-hanovi-for-yahrtzeit http://matzav.com/70000-expected-at-kever-of-shmuel-hanovi-for-yahrtzeit#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 18:46:46 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=77233 Thousands of people have gathered at the kever of Shmuel Hanovi in Yerushalayim for the yartzheit of Shmuel Hanovi. Hundreds of soldiers and policemen are on the scene to maintain order, and various organizations have provided free food and drink to all the people who have come from near and far. Starting last night, shuttle [...]]]> http://matzav.com/70000-expected-at-kever-of-shmuel-hanovi-for-yahrtzeit/feed http://matzav.com/1-million-leiby-kletzky-security-initiative-unveiled-to-protect-brooklyn-communities http://matzav.com/1-million-leiby-kletzky-security-initiative-unveiled-to-protect-brooklyn-communities#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 16:19:57 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=77226 Brooklyn, NY - Assemblyman Dov Hikind and New York State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos today unveiled an extensive security initiative designed to protect residents of Borough Park and Midwood. The Leiby Kletzky Security Initiative, named for young Leiby z”l who was murdered in Boro Park in July, will utilize the newest advances in surveillance [...]]]> http://matzav.com/1-million-leiby-kletzky-security-initiative-unveiled-to-protect-brooklyn-communities/feed http://matzav.com/pakistan-blocks-twitter-access-over-blasphemous-content http://matzav.com/pakistan-blocks-twitter-access-over-blasphemous-content#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 15:47:06 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=77227 Pakistan on Sunday blocked access to Twitter in response to “blasphemous” material posted by users on the microblogging and social networking website, a senior government official said. “This has been done under the directions of the Ministry of Information Technology. It’s because of blasphemous content,” said Mohammed Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). “They [...]]]> http://matzav.com/pakistan-blocks-twitter-access-over-blasphemous-content/feed http://matzav.com/rabbi-lazar-praises-vladimir-putin http://matzav.com/rabbi-lazar-praises-vladimir-putin#comments Sun, 20 May 2012 15:19:49 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=77219 Russia’s back-in-office President Vladimir Putin can be sure that he has a steadfast supporter in Rabbi Berel Lazar, the country’s Chief Rabbi. With continued criticism against the Kremlin’s growing control and Russian Jewish leadership which doubted “Putin’s commitment to protecting Russia’s Jews,” Lazar stands out. “There wasn’t a single thing that he was asked to do [...]]]> http://matzav.com/rabbi-lazar-praises-vladimir-putin/feed