http://matzav.com Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:42:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://matzav.com/hillary-clinton-slams-netanyahu-israel-on-east-jerusalem http://matzav.com/hillary-clinton-slams-netanyahu-israel-on-east-jerusalem#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:31:34 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=35276 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Prime Minister Binyomin Netanyahu this afternoon that his government sent a “deeply negative signal” by taking steps which undermined renewed Middle East peace talks. Clinton telephoned Netanyahu and expressed frustration over Israel’s announcement on Tuesday of new settlement construction, a move that deeply embarrassed visiting UVice President Joe Biden [...]]]> http://matzav.com/hillary-clinton-slams-netanyahu-israel-on-east-jerusalem/feed http://matzav.com/austrian-govt-finds-mass-graves-of-holocaust-victims http://matzav.com/austrian-govt-finds-mass-graves-of-holocaust-victims#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:38:14 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=35274 Austrian government officials say they have identified at least two previously unknown mass graves of Nazi victims on property used by the army. Interior Ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia says talks will be sought with the owners of the site to discuss possible exhumation. He said today that he did not know whether the army owns the [...]]]> http://matzav.com/austrian-govt-finds-mass-graves-of-holocaust-victims/feed http://matzav.com/yu-holds-chulent-cookoff http://matzav.com/yu-holds-chulent-cookoff#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:48:19 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=35271 A strange aroma filled the Washington Heights air as hundreds of students, faculty and curious visitors filed into Yeshiva University’s Weissberg Commons on March 11 for the 2010 Cholent Cook-Off. Sixteen teams made up of 64 students from the men’s undergraduate schools, Yeshiva College and Sy Syms School of Business, went head-to-head in a culinary battle [...]]]> http://matzav.com/yu-holds-chulent-cookoff/feed http://matzav.com/efforts-to-distort-the-moetzes-stance-on-women-rabbis http://matzav.com/efforts-to-distort-the-moetzes-stance-on-women-rabbis#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:50:35 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/efforts-to-distort-the-moetzes-stance-on-women-rabbis By Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel An editorialist in the Jerusalem Post was greatly exercised by the fact that Orthodox rabbinic leaders, including most notably Agudath Israel of America’s Council of Torah Sages (Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah), have gone on record stating what is and is not acceptable for Orthodox congregations (”Women’s rabbinical rights”, 1/03/10). So exercised, in fact, that [...]]]> http://matzav.com/efforts-to-distort-the-moetzes-stance-on-women-rabbis/feed http://matzav.com/rescued-jewish-girl-from-umm-el-fahm-gets-married-in-vienna http://matzav.com/rescued-jewish-girl-from-umm-el-fahm-gets-married-in-vienna#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:31:55 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=35262 The wedding was held in Vienna, Austria, but tears of joy were shed in the Bnei Brak headquarters of Yad L’Achim, whose staffers had rescued the bride from an Arab village. The story begins with a young girl from a warm, supportive family who experienced a breakdown, physically and emotionally, and moved in with the family [...]]]> http://matzav.com/rescued-jewish-girl-from-umm-el-fahm-gets-married-in-vienna/feed http://matzav.com/audio-rav-mintz-on-parshas-vayakhel-pekudei http://matzav.com/audio-rav-mintz-on-parshas-vayakhel-pekudei#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:50:09 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=35267 [Audio below.] Each week, Rav Chaim Mintz, Mashgiach of the Yeshiva of Staten Island and founder and head of Oorah Kiruv Rechokim, offers, via telephone, an insightful and inspiring message on the weekly parsha to hundreds of Oorah’s volunteers. Oorah and Matzav.com are proud to share this week’s message, on Parshas Vayakhel-Pekudei, with the broader [...]]]> http://matzav.com/audio-rav-mintz-on-parshas-vayakhel-pekudei/feed http://matzav.com/video-product-designed-to-address-heseibah-difficulties http://matzav.com/video-product-designed-to-address-heseibah-difficulties#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:09:04 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=35252 [Video below.] An Israeli product aimed at the chareidi market seeks to alleviate ‘difficulties’ associated with heseibah on the Seder night of Pesach. Produced by Ravco, the product, called the “Geulit” - presumably for those who don’t have armchairs - can be attached to any chair to assist one in fulfilling the mitzvah of heseibah. In the [...]]]> http://matzav.com/video-product-designed-to-address-heseibah-difficulties/feed http://matzav.com/rav-ovadiah-yosef-pesach-cakes-and-maris-ayin http://matzav.com/rav-ovadiah-yosef-pesach-cakes-and-maris-ayin#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:40:09 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=35221 As we know, chometz is defined as grain flour that touched water and remained for a period of time until it became chometz. How, then, can people eat gebrochtz on Pesach, allowing their matzoh to get wet? The answer is that those who eat gebrochtz understand that all the flour in the matzoh is baked [...]]]> http://matzav.com/rav-ovadiah-yosef-pesach-cakes-and-maris-ayin/feed http://matzav.com/ad-obama-the-blackest http://matzav.com/ad-obama-the-blackest#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:54:01 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=35216 An Israeli advertisement perhaps crosses the line of racial acceptability, but the advertisers may not even realize that their ad may be deemed offensive for some. A hat store has advertised all over Yerushalayim, placing a number of pictures and writing on top of each of them a different line, such as “The nicest,” The [...]]]> http://matzav.com/ad-obama-the-blackest/feed http://matzav.com/ahmadinejad-israel-is-worlds-most-hated-state http://matzav.com/ahmadinejad-israel-is-worlds-most-hated-state#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:29:05 +0000 Matzav Editor http://matzav.com/?p=35209 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked Israel on Thursday, asserting that it is the most hated state in the world. Israel, he said, was established on lies, is losing the support of the West and would soon disappear. Ahmadinejad, who in the past has called for Israel to be wiped off the map, made his attack during [...]]]> http://matzav.com/ahmadinejad-israel-is-worlds-most-hated-state/feed