http://matzav.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:48:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://matzav.com/yaakov-shwekey-to-release-all-new-cd http://matzav.com/yaakov-shwekey-to-release-all-new-cd#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:48:04 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=73954 Yochi Briskman will soon be presenting an all new album from Yaakov Shwekey. The CD includes multiple arrangements from Yanky Briskman and arrangements by Moshe Laufer, Yisroel Lamm, and Jeff Horvitch, among others. This new album has some very exciting new ideas, fresh sounds and of course many surprises. The CD is titled “Cry No More”, [...]]]> http://matzav.com/yaakov-shwekey-to-release-all-new-cd/feed http://matzav.com/thanks-beyond-words-in-tribute-to-rav-yosef-tendler-ztl http://matzav.com/thanks-beyond-words-in-tribute-to-rav-yosef-tendler-ztl#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:01 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=73990 In 1971, Rabbi Mayer Kurcfeld came to Baltimore to learn at Yeshivas Ner Yisrael. It is difficult enough for the average 15-year-old to adjust to an out-of-town yeshiva. As a stutterer, young Mayer faced even more challenges. His stutter was so bad he could not say a simple “hello”; he even had trouble getting out [...]]]> http://matzav.com/thanks-beyond-words-in-tribute-to-rav-yosef-tendler-ztl/feed http://matzav.com/rav-yosef-tendler-ztl http://matzav.com/rav-yosef-tendler-ztl#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:19:22 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=73988 It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rav Yosef Tendler zt”l, longtime menahel of Yeshiva Ner Yisroel High School in Baltimore, a short while ago. Rav Tendler was a son of Rav Isaac Tendler, a talmid of Radin in Europe. When he came to America, Rav Isaac learned at Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon [...]]]> http://matzav.com/rav-yosef-tendler-ztl/feed http://matzav.com/levavo-levav-kol-yisroel http://matzav.com/levavo-levav-kol-yisroel#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:03:44 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=73987 By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz We live in very precarious times. There is so much good in our community. There is so much Torah being studied and such high standards being set in chinuch, kashrus, tznius and many other areas. More people than ever dedicate their lives to the study and dissemination of Torah. Chessed organizations [...]]]> http://matzav.com/levavo-levav-kol-yisroel/feed http://matzav.com/rav-druckman-ive-signed-50000-conversions http://matzav.com/rav-druckman-ive-signed-50000-conversions#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:38:16 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=73983 Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met today with Rabbi Chaim Druckman to thank him for the eight years in which he has headed the State Conversion Array, which handles cases of geirus. The meeting between the Prime Minister and Rabbi Druckman, who is the head of the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva Center and head of Or [...]]]> http://matzav.com/rav-druckman-ive-signed-50000-conversions/feed http://matzav.com/israel-embassies-preparing-for-iran-strike http://matzav.com/israel-embassies-preparing-for-iran-strike#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:20:50 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=73985 Foreign embassies in Israel have recently started to formulate contingency plans to evacuate their citizens from the Jewish State in case of a missile attack on Israel. Senior officials in Jerusalem said that several diplomatic missions have shown great interest in preparing for various emergency situations, Yediot Achronot reported Tuesday. In the framework of the preparations for [...]]]> http://matzav.com/israel-embassies-preparing-for-iran-strike/feed http://matzav.com/mrs-brenda-geldwerth-ah http://matzav.com/mrs-brenda-geldwerth-ah#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:19:41 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=73981 It is with great sadness that we report the petirah of Mrs. Brenda Geldwerth a”h, who passed away a short while ago after battling illness for the last few years. Mrs. Geldwerth was the wife of Rav Lipa Geldwerth, longtime maggid shiur at Yeshiva Torah Temimah and rov of Khal Kol Torah of Flatbush. Mrs. Geldwerth personified [...]]]> http://matzav.com/mrs-brenda-geldwerth-ah/feed http://matzav.com/rav-shlomo-margolis-ztl http://matzav.com/rav-shlomo-margolis-ztl#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:33:59 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=73978 It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rav Shloma Margolis zt”l. Rav Shloma was a talmid of the pre-war Novardoker yeshivos and  a talmid of Rav Yaakov Naiman, Rav Avrohom Joffen, Rav ElazarShach and the Steipler Gaon. After World War II, Rav Shloma established a yeshiva for yesomim in Lodz, Pinsk and later in Prague, and [...]]]> http://matzav.com/rav-shlomo-margolis-ztl/feed http://matzav.com/bmg-freezer-opens-today http://matzav.com/bmg-freezer-opens-today#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:27:03 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=73965 As many are aware, the “freezer” is opening today at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ. Under the “freezer” rule, new bochurim during their first zeman in the Lakewood Yeshiva are not permittedto enter the parsha of shidduchim - i.e., they may not officially date - until Tu B’Shevat during the winter zeman or Shiva [...]]]> http://matzav.com/bmg-freezer-opens-today/feed http://matzav.com/gilad-shalit-meets-sarkozy-in-paris http://matzav.com/gilad-shalit-meets-sarkozy-in-paris#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:02:13 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=73975 Gilad Shalit, the IDF soldier released on October 18 after five years of captivity in Gaza met today with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, at the Elysee Palace. Gilad was accompanied by his parents Noam and Aviva Shalit who will also be guests of honor at the annual Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) dinner on [...]]]> http://matzav.com/gilad-shalit-meets-sarkozy-in-paris/feed