Matzav Inbox: Moving Kollel Families to Flatbush – Why?
Dear Editor,
I’ve been reading a lot about the fact that there’s an effort to “bring back” young couples to Flatbush, with millions of dollars...
Who is PETA?
The following article by noted attorney Nathan Lewin was written on Dec. 15 2004:
It was the Wednesday afternoon before Thanksgiving. Downtown offices in Washington...
We Don’t Need a “New Contemporary Theology”: A Response to Rabbi Hefter
By Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer
The article was so shocking. Not only shocking in terms of its content, but shocking that its author, an apparently very...
The Matzav Shmoooze: Sick and Getting Sicker
Dear Editor,
The media is so one-sided and so biased, I am amazed they get away with what they do. If they like you,...
The NY Times Finds a New Pathetic Adjective to Hurl at Netanyahu
By Ira Stoll
The New York Times has found a new adjective to hurl at the prime minster of Israel: “brash.”
A Times dispatch by Peter...
The Matzav Rant: Neophyte Shadchanim
By Shmuel Miskin
I take umbrage with the notion of many people that the onus of redding shidduchim should be on young couples.
Young couples who have...
Tests, Challenges and Nisyonos
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Parshas Lech Lecha opens with one of the ten nisyonos Avrohom Avinu confronted. Nisyonos are commonly translated as tests...
A New, Ugly Wrinkle in the Tuition Crisis
Dear Editor,
I take the liberty of sharing some very important thoughts from Yitzchok Adlerstein on Cross-Currents regarding the tuition crisis.
I present some excerpts of...
Opinion: Frum Divorce Rate Is Up
By Rabbi Hanoch Hecht
Twenty years ago, the divorce rate in the frum community at large was significantly lower than the secular world. In...
Are the Chareidim Really the Ones Benefitting from Inequality?
By Rafi G., Life in Israel
People here in Israel and especially the secular media make it sound like the chareidim have the highest level...
The Wickedness Of “Live And Let Live”
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
A visitor to Sodom seeking to purchase food would be told by the merchants, "keep your money (what's yours is yours)...
Now is the Time
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Time marches along, too quickly it seems. It feels like it was only a couple of weeks ago that the weather...
How Saying Kaddish for My Father Changed My Life
By Harlan Weisman
My father, Herman Weisman, was a modest man, but also a man of passion, quiet courage and determination. He survived the...
There Is No Continuity Without Authenticity
By Yitzchok Alderstein
Analogizing to competition sports, rabbinic debate usually resembles nothing more exciting than tiddly-winks or croquet. Last week, however, rabbinic sport turned to...
Ed Koch, FDR, and the Holocaust
"Mayor Koch last night took on the ghost of President Franklin D. Roosevelt," an item in the New York Daily News in 1988 began, which...
Don’t Expect Iran To Fight for Assad
In case of a military attack by the U.S. against Syria, there is little chance that Iran will become directly involved. This is despite...
Hashiveini Ve’ashuvah
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
In one of the Al Cheit confessions that we recite on Yom Kippur, we beg forgiveness "al cheit shechatanu lefonecha...
Opinion: The Ten Commandments According to Obama
I. Thou shalt have no God in America, except for me. For we are no longer a Christian nation and, after all, I am...
Analysis: Disappearance of Yeshiva Students Could Be Outcome of Palestinian Unity
Ron Ben-Yishai, Yediot Achronot
While security officials have yet to confirm that three Israeli teens missing in the West Bank since Thursday night were...
Binary Options Trading In The US And Its Relation With Economy
By K. Craig, Matzav.com
One of the simplest ways of American trading would be investing in binary options, commonly known as Fixed Return options. Started in...
