Lakewood Girls’ Schools May Not Open Until Every Child Has a Place
Lakewood, NJ’s girls’ elementary schools could face a delayed start to the new academic year as the community’s rabbonim weigh reinstating a longstanding policy...
Kidnapping Suspected After Missing 10-Year-Old Boy Found With 20-Year-Old Man in Bnei Brak
Israeli police are investigating a possible kidnapping after a 10-year-old boy who disappeared from Petach Tikvah was found overnight in Bnei Brak together with...
Religious Zionist Protests Erupt at Yerushalayim Entrance After 16 Givati Soldiers Jailed for Refusing...
Religious Zionist activists demonstrated near the entrance to Yerushalayim on Monday evening after 16 Givati Brigade soldiers were sentenced to military jail for refusing...
Major IDF Leadership Shakeup: Dado Bar Kalifa Named Next Central Command Chief
Israeli Defense Minister Yisroel Katz has approved IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir’s recommendation to appoint Maj. Gen. Dado Bar Kalifa as...
Times Square Bloodshed: Knife-Wielding Woman Fatally Stabs Woman, Wounds Man Before Being Shot Dead...
A woman armed with two knives fatally stabbed another woman and critically wounded a man in Times Square Monday afternoon before she was shot...
More Details of the Planned Trump-Rabbonim Oval Office Meeting This Thursday
President Donald Trump is expected to welcome a high-level delegation of American rebbes and a rosh yeshiva to the Oval Office on Thursday for...
Tragedy in Bnei Brak: 70-Year-Old Man Found Dead in Apartment After Neighbors Detect Strong...
A man approximately 70 years old was found deceased in an apartment on Jabotinsky Street in Bnei Brak on Monday afternoon after neighbors noticed...
Rav Yigal Levinstein Blasts IDF Over Female Paramedic Controversy: “An Impossible Situation”
Rav Yigal Levinstein, head of the pre-military academy in Eli, sharply criticized the IDF’s integration policies following the controversy involving 16 religious soldiers in...
Likud MK Tally Gotliv Says She Would Consider Leaving Party: “I Will Not Agree...
Likud MK Tally Gotliv said Monday that she would seriously consider leaving the party if she received an attractive offer from another political faction,...
Major Skverer Initiative Doubles Kollel Stipends as Hundreds of Supporters Join Yissachar-Zevulun Partnerships
A sweeping new initiative is transforming financial support for Skverer avreichim, with hundreds of the community’s philanthropists joining together to directly double the monthly...
Draft Arrests Could Send Thousands of Breslover Chassidim to Meron for Rosh Hashanah
Thousands of Breslover Chassidim could spend Rosh Hashanah in Meron this year instead of traveling to Uman, as the ongoing crackdown on Chareidi draft-status...
Blakeman Tells Hochul, Mamdani to Stay Away From Ground Zero on 9/11 Anniversary
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman is calling on New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to skip the upcoming...
Supreme Court Clears Trump’s White House Ballroom to Move Forward in 5-4 Ruling
President Trump scored a victory at the Supreme Court on Monday as the justices ruled that construction of his planned White House ballroom may...
Vance Says Trump’s Kharg Island Post Was a Warning to Iran
President Donald Trump was sending a pointed warning to Tehran when he posted on social media about Iran’s vital Kharg Island energy hub being...
Israel Investigates New Suspected Ebola Case in Traveler Returning From Congo
Israel’s Health Ministry announced Monday evening that it is investigating a new suspected case of Ebola involving an individual who recently returned to the...
Israel Steps Up Area C Enforcement, Demolishes Illegal Construction Near Security Fence and Ancient...
Israeli authorities carried out a large-scale enforcement campaign across Judea and Samaria over the past two days, demolishing illegal structures in Area C that...
Mail Ballot Rejections Surge as Postal Delays Raise Concerns Ahead of Midterm Elections
Election officials are raising concerns about the growing number of mail-in ballots reaching election offices after state deadlines, with recent primary results showing a...
Matzav Inbox: A Concerned Crown Heights Resident: What Is Happening to Our Neighborhood?
Dear Matzav Inbox,
It was a beautiful summer afternoon several weeks ago when I took a walk with my children through southern Crown Heights. The...
Chaim V’Chessed Tishrei Travel Advisory 5787
With Tishrei approaching, thousands of travelers will be making their way to and from Israel for Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkos. Chaim V’Chessed offers the following...
Suitcases Bearing Ben Gurion Airport Tags Mysteriously Turn Up at Cyprus Flea Market
A collection of suitcases still bearing flight tags, barcodes and Israeli security-screening markings from Ben Gurion Airport has mysteriously surfaced for sale at a...
Letitia James Prosecutor Claims He Was Told to Target Trump Allies, Accuses AG’s Office...
A veteran prosecutor in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office has accused his superiors of directing him to investigate President Trump and his...
9/11 Cancer Cases Soar Nearly 1,700% as Death Toll From Toxic Exposure Surpasses 9,400
Nearly 25 years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the health catastrophe linked to the toxic aftermath of the World Trade Center’s destruction continues...
Preliminary Probe Finds Worker Shortage Triggered Ben Gurion Airport Chaos
A preliminary investigation into the massive disruptions at Ben Gurion Airport on August 20 has found that workers leaving their shifts before completing scheduled...
Skverer Avreich Arrested in Eilat, Sent to Military Prison Just Days Before His Son’s...
A Skverer avreich from Yerushalayim was arrested in the Eilat area and sentenced to 10 days in Military Prison 10 on charges of draft...
More Than 350,000 Flock to Kosel for Selichos During First Half of Elul
More than 350,000 people have already participated in Selichos gatherings at the Kosel during the first half of Elul, as exceptionally large crowds continue...
Tesla Bursts Into Flames in Underground Garage, Driver Found Dead Inside
A man was killed Sunday night after a fire erupted in an underground parking garage of a residential building in Rishon Lezion, with initial...
Netanyahu: Anyone Who Says “We Will Die Rather Than Enlist” Should Go Straight to...
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu issued a sharp message on the Chareidi draft controversy Sunday night, declaring that those who are not learning Torah...
Chareidi Protesters Camp Overnight Outside Tel Hashomer, Block Roads Ahead of IDF Draft Day
Dozens of Chareidi protesters gathered outside the Tel Hashomer recruitment office in Ramat Gan early Monday morning, attempting to block access roads as the...
Trump Calls For Leaders of ‘Failed Nation’ Iran To Be Tried For ‘War Crimes...
President Trump on Monday called for Iran’s leaders to be prosecuted for “war crimes against humanity,” delivering a blistering assessment of the Islamic Republic...
Retired Port Authority Cops Tell Mamdani to Stay Away From Ground Zero on 9/11...
A group representing retired Port Authority police officers is urging New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year’s 25th anniversary commemoration...
Loomer Blasts Planned Satmar Rebbe–Trump Meeting, Satmar Fires Back: Kiryas Yoel Backed Trump ‘More...
A planned White House meeting between President Donald Trump and the Satmar Rebbe, Rav Aharon Teitelbaum of Kiryas Yoel, has sparked a fierce public...
Trump’s ‘Lake America’ Spreads Into Canada as Websites Mistakenly Adopt New Name
Several Canadian websites, including those operated by government-related services, briefly labeled Lake Ontario as “Lake America” on Sunday, even though Google had said its...
Iran’s Khamenei Brands US, Israel ‘Sworn Enemies’ of Muslim Unity Amid Mystery Over His...
Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei accused the United States and Israel on Sunday of seeking to undermine unity across the Muslim world, issuing the...
UK Chief Rabbi Warns Anti-Israel Sanctions Could Fuel Antisemitism, Damage Ties With Israel
Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis, is urging the British government to reconsider planned sanctions and trade restrictions targeting Jewish communities in Judea...
Trump Administration Readies New Bank Sanctions as US Tightens Financial Noose on Iran
The Trump administration is preparing another round of banking sanctions against Iran this week as Washington intensifies its effort to cut Tehran off from...
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Calls for Criminal Probe of Rav Yitzchok Yosef After Blistering Attack on Attorney General
The Movement for Quality Government in Israel on Sunday called for a criminal investigation into former Rishon LeTzion Rav Yitzchok Yosef following sharp remarks...
Trump: If I Weren’t President, There Would Probably Be No Middle East
President Donald Trump warned Sunday that allowing Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon could lead to the destruction of Israel and potentially much of...
Rav Tzemach Mazuz Blasts Attorney General Over Rav Ovadia Yosef Memorial Cancellation: “Her Mind...
Rav Tzemach Mazuz, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Kisei Rachamim, sharply criticized Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara over the decision to cancel this year’s central memorial...
Judicial Ombudsman Faults Bais Din After Husband Was Warned Refusal to Sign Divorce Deal...
Israel’s judicial complaints commissioner has upheld a complaint filed by a man who said a bais din warned him that refusing to sign a...
Maduro Releases First Photos From Brooklyn Jail Eight Months After U.S. Capture
Nicolás Maduro has released the first photos of himself from a New York federal detention facility, eight months after he was captured in a...
Hundreds Rally Outside Prison 10 in Protest of Arrest of Yeshiva Bochur
Hundreds of bnei Torah gathered outside the gates of Prison 10 on Sunday evening for a large atzeres chizuk and protest following the arrest...
Burned Sifrei Torah Brought to Kevurah Following Deadly Beit Shemesh Missile Strike
Community leaders, bereaved families and the gabbaim of the Tiferes Yisrael shul in Beit Shemesh gathered Sunday for the solemn kevurah of the remains...
Satmar Rebbe Explains Why He Will Attend White House Rabbonim Meeting With President Trump
As first reported here on Matzav.com, several admorim from New York have received official invitations from the White House to attend a special meeting...
Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein to Melamdim: ‘You Are the Real Israel Defense Forces — They...
Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein delivered a powerful message of chizuk to a group of melamdim and mechanchim in Holon, telling them that the Torah learned...
Israel Issues Emergency Guidelines for Rosh Hashanah Travelers to Uman Amid Ukraine War
Israel’s Foreign Ministry has issued updated emergency guidelines for those planning to travel to Uman for Rosh Hashanah, warning travelers that the ongoing war...
Givati Soldiers Sent to Military Prison After Refusing APC Ride With Female Medic
Three religious Givati Brigade soldiers were sentenced Sunday to 10 days in military prison after refusing to enter an armored personnel carrier with a...
Security Reinstated for Gadi Eisenkot Through Election Day After New Threat Information Emerges
Gadi Eisenkot will receive security protection through Election Day following a new recommendation from Israel’s Advisory Committee for Personal Security, reversing an earlier decision...
“Everyone Respects Him. Will Anyone Believe Me?”
Amudim has been answering crisis calls since 2014. In that time, more than 321,000 calls have come in across more than 23,000 cases. People...
Shock Poll Shakes Israeli Right: Likud Plunges as Winter Surges Into Knesset
A new Kan 11 poll shows a dramatic shift in Israel’s political landscape, with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s Likud falling to just 21 seats...
