http://matzav.com Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:34:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://matzav.com/video-photos-1000-attend-pre-pesach-shiur-from-rav-forchheimer http://matzav.com/video-photos-1000-attend-pre-pesach-shiur-from-rav-forchheimer#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:34:10 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=36028 [Video and photos below.] Last night, an estimated 1,000 people filled the dining of Bath Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, for the annual pre-Pesach halacha shiur delivered by Rav Yaakov Forchheimer, a senior posek at Beth Medrash Govoha. During the shiur, attended by talmidei chachomim, yungeleit and bochurim, Rav Forchheimer discussed Pesach-related topics, including halachos [...]]]> http://matzav.com/video-photos-1000-attend-pre-pesach-shiur-from-rav-forchheimer/feed http://matzav.com/toldos-avrohom-yitzchok-rebbes-daughter-faced-with-traveling-nightmare http://matzav.com/toldos-avrohom-yitzchok-rebbes-daughter-faced-with-traveling-nightmare#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:05:44 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=36071 The following report appears in the NY Post: The widow of a Brooklyn-born rabbi, murdered two years ago by terrorists in Mumbai, is facing an immigration nightmare that threatens to keep her from seeing her eight children in New York.Frumet Teitelbaum, 37, an Israeli citizen, was stopped by US Customs and Border Protection agents at [...]]]> http://matzav.com/toldos-avrohom-yitzchok-rebbes-daughter-faced-with-traveling-nightmare/feed http://matzav.com/ralph-zucker-on-prv-the-market-just-died http://matzav.com/ralph-zucker-on-prv-the-market-just-died#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:36:32 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=36068 An increasing number of developers struggling to find older residents for their 55-plus housing communities have relaxed the age restrictions to attract younger home buyers. The housing collapse and recession hurt sales in active adult communities, which in the past 10 years had multiplied as the first wave of 79 million Baby Boomers entered retirement. The [...]]]> http://matzav.com/ralph-zucker-on-prv-the-market-just-died/feed http://matzav.com/videos-photos-rav-aharon-leib-teitelbaum-visits-lakewood-for-hachnosas-sefer-torah-at-satmar-bais-medrash http://matzav.com/videos-photos-rav-aharon-leib-teitelbaum-visits-lakewood-for-hachnosas-sefer-torah-at-satmar-bais-medrash#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:09:21 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=36022 [Videos and photos below.] Yesterday, the Satmar Bais Medrash of Lakewood, NJ, celebrated a Hachnosas Sefer Torah. Rav Aharon Teitelbaum of Satmar travelled from his home in Monroe, NY, to join in the celebration.  The kesivas ha’osiyos took place in the early afternoon at the home of Reb Yisroel Welz. Rav Aharon Teitelbaum first visited the [...]]]> http://matzav.com/videos-photos-rav-aharon-leib-teitelbaum-visits-lakewood-for-hachnosas-sefer-torah-at-satmar-bais-medrash/feed http://matzav.com/video-what-do-boro-parkers-know-about-the-nyc-council-elections http://matzav.com/video-what-do-boro-parkers-know-about-the-nyc-council-elections#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:54:08 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=36011 [Entertaining videos below.] As things come down to the wire in Boro Park ahead of the 44th NYC Council District Special Election tomorrow, the Dee Voch Weekly Photo Magazine took to the streets to find out exactly what local residents know about the race. David Greenfield and Joe Lazar are vying for the position, with former candidates Jonathan [...]]]> http://matzav.com/video-what-do-boro-parkers-know-about-the-nyc-council-elections/feed http://matzav.com/report-kosher-scooters-help-jews-keep-faith http://matzav.com/report-kosher-scooters-help-jews-keep-faith#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:42:43 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=36056 Oralandar Brand-Williams reports in The Detroit News: Michael Balkin observes traditional Jewish practices, but walking to services has been difficult for the past 20 years.  A worsening neurological disorder has made walking more than a few steps nearly impossible for the 59-year-old West Bloomfield resident. But in recent years, things have improved for Balkin, thanks [...]]]> http://matzav.com/report-kosher-scooters-help-jews-keep-faith/feed http://matzav.com/video-new-campaign-gilad-shalit-becoming-ron-arad http://matzav.com/video-new-campaign-gilad-shalit-becoming-ron-arad#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:26:13 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=36047 [Video below.] Four years after IDF soldier Gilad Shalit was abducted to the Gaza Strip, and after the failure of two rounds of negotiations for his release, his family and supporters have launched a new campaign. The focus of this new effort is to warn us that Shalit’s fate could end up being the same [...]]]> http://matzav.com/video-new-campaign-gilad-shalit-becoming-ron-arad/feed http://matzav.com/video-obama-addresses-nation-following-health-vote http://matzav.com/video-obama-addresses-nation-following-health-vote#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:49:21 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=36038 [Video below.] President Obama, with Vice President Biden at his side, hailed historic passage of the health care reform package last night, stating that the vote proves government “still works for the people.” Passage, he said, showed that lawmakers “didn’t give in to mistrust or to cynicism or to fear.” “Instead,” he said, “we proved that we [...]]]> http://matzav.com/video-obama-addresses-nation-following-health-vote/feed http://matzav.com/the-linzer-rov-rav-aharon-wieder-ztl http://matzav.com/the-linzer-rov-rav-aharon-wieder-ztl#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:40:51 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=36052 It is with great sadness that we report the passing this past Shabbos of the Linzer Rov, Rav Aharon Wieder zt”l, chaver habadatz of Kehillas Sanz-Klausenberg. He was 90. Rav Wieder was the father-in-law of the Sanz-Klausenberger Rebbe of America. Rav Wieder was from last remaining Chassidic rabbonim of the pre-war era. Known as a respected posek, [...]]]> http://matzav.com/the-linzer-rov-rav-aharon-wieder-ztl/feed http://matzav.com/lev-lachim-warns-against-vacation-spots-operated-by-missionaries http://matzav.com/lev-lachim-warns-against-vacation-spots-operated-by-missionaries#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:11:01 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=36062 Lev L’Achim heads have voiced their objections to missionary nternet sites and their shameful stance toward these advertisers, quipping that birds of a feather flock together. Any cooperation with these websites has been strictly prohibited by gedolei Yisroel. Rav Zeev Shteiglitz of Lev L’Achim told a reporter from the Hebrew daily Yated Ne’eman, “Missionaries try every [...]]]> http://matzav.com/lev-lachim-warns-against-vacation-spots-operated-by-missionaries/feed