Judaism: The Slippery Slope of Jewish Religious Dialogue with the Church

By Rabbis Avraham Gordimer and David HaKohen Grosser The rabbis, cardinals, bishops and priests met together, prayed together, discussed theology together, sang, danced and feasted together,...

Analysis: Gingrich Cuts Romney Where It Hurts

By Rick Klein Mitt Romney lost far more than South Carolina on Motzoei Shabbos. He also lost the air of inevitability around his candidacy. Newt Gingrich...

Non-Compromising Orthodoxy

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz The memoirs of former Knesset member Rabbi Shlomo Lorencz are replete with anecdotes and encounters that underscore the...

Opinion: Let’s End The Prescription Drug Death Epidemic

By Sanjay Gupta He was talking about accidental death from prescription drug overdoses. The doctor, Gary Franklin, medical director for Washington state's Department...

My Sin is before Me Always

By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran We live at a time when even the most "humble" amongst us seems to have a blog, or a Twitter account,...

Gold: The Clock is Ticking On the Three Kidnapped Teens

Former Israeli UN Ambassador Dore Gold, today an advisor to the prime minister of Israel, discussed the kidnapping of the three Israeli teenagers...

CUNY Allowing Jew-Hatred and Intimidation of Jewish Students

By Susan B. Tuchman, Zach Stern and Morton A. Klein Campus anti-Semitism is a growing national problem and frighteningly, it has infected The City University of...

Achieving the Sukkos Joy

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz The days leading up to Sukkos are filled with lists. This one needs a new suit. That one needs a hat....

Opinion: NY TAP for Yeshiva Students – A Mess for all of Us

By Yossi Gestetner Some are jubilant that Yeshiva boys will now be eligible to get money through the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), thanks to the...

The Secret to Serenity

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz The world around us pursues happiness, yet like an animal trying to catch its own tail it eludes them. People...

The Divine Candle

By Yochanan Gordon Despite the vast amount of recovery and relief still ahead of us post-Hurricane Sandy, Chanukah could not come at a more...

A Most Inspiring Letter to Your Child for Pesach

Written by Horav Aaron Lopiansky, Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva of Greater Washington (Adapted from his book Time Pieces) My dear child, it is now a quiet moment...

Why Not Daven For Korach?

By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld                  The posuk in Bamidbar 17:31 says, “As soon as Moshe finished talking to them, the ground opened up and swallowed them.” The kashya is, why didn’t Moshe daven that Korach should do teshuva? Moshe was the...

Frum Jews and Our Life of “Financial Impossibility”

By Rabbi Yosef Shubert, Matzav.com I am fascinated by a poll being conducted by Matzav.com at the left-hand side of this page. According to the...

The Haggadah on Many Levels

By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss The annual holy narrative of the Pesach Seder is a multi-faceted experience with which we should familiarize ourselves so that...

Leiby, Why I Went to Your Levaya

Dear Leiby, I just returned from your levaya. You might be wondering why I went. After all, I never met you and I am almost a...

Obama Administration Refuses to Condemn Palestinian Terrorist Who Tried to Murder Israelis

By Moshe Phillips and Benyomin Korn Another young American man has given his life while fighting in the ranks of Islamist terrorists abroad. But...

Assad is Adopting Hamas’ ‘Dead Baby’ Strategy

By Alan Dershowitz As Congress debates whether to authorize President Obama to engage in a punitive-deterrent military attack on Syria, the Assad regime is ...

The Matzav Rant: Insane Pesach Food Prices

By Shmuel Miskin The concern I will share today is most definitely not a new one, but it is an issue that comes up every...

Say It Already: Avi Weiss is Not Orthodox

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz What makes one Jewish person Orthodox, another Conservative, and a third Reform? What is it that has defined Orthodoxy ever since that...

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