THE EMPTY WAGON: A Review of R. Yaakov Shapiro’s [Flawed] Attack on Zionism
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman
Yaakov Shapiro’s “Empty Wagon” is certainly one of the most controversial books to hit the Orthodox world in decades. Its 1373...
Sefer Review: Alternative Medicine in Halacha
Alternative Medicine in Halacha By Rav Rephoel Szmerla
Reviewed by Daniel Shapiro
There are few contentious issues in modern halacha that touch on the very foundations of...
One of the Toughest Riddles Ever?
Yahoo News yesterday had a report on what is considered one of the "toughest riddles ever," a classic paradox involving a barber that may...
A Conversation With Rabbi Yechiel Spero On Book #13
As I read through Rabbi Yechiel Spero's newest book, A Touch of Inspiration, what amazes me most is the variety of the stories. This...
Book Review: Innocent Deceptions – When Lies Shatter Lives
By Chava Dumas
Shira was a vivacious, dynamic go-getter, a shining star in her class. Donny was a quiet underachiever, living in a cramped, one-bedroom...
Incredible Savings from Feldheim Publishers
Don't miss out on incredible savings from Feldheim Publishers during Book Week 2010.
The concept of "Book Week" began in Israel approximately 40 years...
Haaretz Hatovah – A Welcome Challenge
Reprinted from Yated Ne’eman
A Welcome Challenge
Hershy Shmedra - Romema, Yerushalayim
It was during Pesach, right in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak, that we finalized...
The New Artscroll Ohr HaChaim: Seforim in Review
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times
Once, long ago, before there was Schottenstein, there were people who posed the following question:...
The Shmuz: ‘Stop Surviving, Start Living’
By Mrs. Ruchie Schwartz
‘The foundation of all righteousness and the root of the perfect service of Hashem is that a person should clearly know...
Just Released: The Torah Vodaas Haggadah – A Project of Tsemach Glenn
The Megillos have been packed away for next year, while the mishloach manos and other chometz are quickly being consumed. Brooms and mops are...
Living in a Conversation with Hashem – Mendel Schulman’s Story
Haaretz Hatovah
Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel.
I grew up in a frum home in West Hempstead New York. When...
Haaretz Hatovah – Moving On and Up
Reprinted from Yated Ne’eman
Moving On & Up
R’ Chaim Leib Belsky - Ramat Eshkol, Yerushalayim
When we first came to Eretz Yisroel as a young couple,...
10 Years in the Making: “Rabbi Sherer”
This past week, when the biography of Rabbi Moshe Sherer went to press, the excitement in the ArtScroll office was palpable. Many ArtScroll staffers...
Naava Kodesh Weekly – The Modzitzer Rebbe
Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel.
The second Modzitzer Rebbe, Rabbi Shaul Yedidya Elazar Taub, (1886-1947) an outstanding Talmid Chochom,...
Sefer Review: Sefer Eis Laledes
Reviewed by Rabbi BZ Karman
Pregnancy is a time buoyed with happiness yet fraught with worry. As the ‘soon to be’ parents prepare for their...
Tefillos for Rav Belsky Are Needed Now
Update below: All are asked to continue saying Tehillim for Rav Yisroel Belsky, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, who is hospitalized at Maimonides Medical...
Chaya Taub Home at Last – Haaretz Hatovah
Haaretz Hatovah
Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel.
Until 2006, at the great pleading of good friends of ours, who had...
Aleinu L’Shabeiach from Rav Zilberstein Now Available in English for the First Time
The acclaimed sefer Aleinu L'Shabeiach, by Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein, is now available in English for the very first time, thanks to our friends at...
Audio: Interview With Zvi Ryzman
In ArtScroll On the Air, radio personality Nachum Segal recently spoke with R' Zvi Ryzman of Los Angeles,author of The Wisdom in the Hebrew...
Book Review: Heroes of Spirit
In the past, when book reviews have appeared on Matzav.com, we have tried to encapsulate the purpose and contents of the book. When reading...
