Pinchos Focused
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Parshas Pinchos weaves together themes and ideas that seem unconnected. The parsha opens with the enduring act of zealotry by Pinchos,...
The Noose is Tightening
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
We learn this week about the Mabul that destroyed the entire world, except for Noach, his family and representative animals, who...
MATZAV INBOX: Forget the Chinese Restaurant. Here are 3 Kashrus Scandals to Make Your...
Dear Matzav,
I was surprised to hear the shock and alarm over the revelation yesterday about a certain Chinese restaurant in New Jersey. Sorry if...
A Call To Diaspora Jewry: Come To Eretz Yisroel!
Below is the letter from Agudas Kedushas Tzion B'Shem Gedolai Eretz Yisroel
Original Hebrew PDF here and English here
עת צרה היא ליעקב וממנה יוושע
“A difficult time...
We Blew it On the Internet
By Rabbi Yosef Shubert, Matzav.com
I remember the day like it was yesterday. It was about twelve years ago. I bumped into an individual who knew...
A Tribute to Shlomo Zakheim z”l, Beloved of Hashem
By Esther and Jonathan Pollard
"It is very rare these days that people know how to love; and to love is to give. How many...
Good Over Evil
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The news since Simchas Torah has been downright frightening. Twelve hundred innocent people were killed just because they were Jews. They...
The End of Baal Teshuvah Discrimination
By Rabbi Yitzchok Fingerer
I recently was menachem avel a mourner who I only knew peripherally. I wasn't familiar with his particular pedigree or family...
MBD Continues Effort to Curb Rampant Copying of CDs; Matzav Interviews Rabbi Elli Bohm
Exclusive interview with the author of the first revised copyright language for Jewish music albums:
Mordechai Ben David, who has long been vocal about people...
The Matzav Shmoooze: An Insensitive Email After My Life Was Destroyed By the Hurricane
Dear Editor,
This is my response to an email I received from an organization, connecting the recent hurricane to lashon hara. I have copied...
Carlson: We Were Lied To About Coronavirus And The Mass Lockdowns. Here’s The Proof
By Tucker Carlson
Millions of Americans remain subjected to unprecedented restrictions on their personal lives, their daily lives, their family's lives.
The coronavirus lockdowns continue in...
Opinion: Glenn Beck’s Jewish Problem
By Jeffrey Goldberg
It's become clear to me that the Fox commentator Glenn Beck has something of a Jewish problem. Actually, he has something...
Our Own World
By Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber
Chanukah is when we celebrate our existence as a nation separate from the goyim. A special nation with our own...
Teenage Internet Addiction
By Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch, MA, Matzav.com
Is Internet addiction the main cause of today's at-risk crisis? It's a topic most people shy away from, but...
Tefillingate Unraveled: In Orthodoxy, Women Just Don’t Wear Tefillin
By Rabbi Avi Shafran
Unlike some in the traditional Orthodox community, I empathize with the young women in two modern Orthodox high schools in...
The Case Against COVID Testing
By S. Ginsburg, Matzav.com
We all agree that the goal of our community is to keep schools and shuls open and to enable families to...
Rav Elyashiv’s Grandfather Invented the First Anger Management Program?
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for the Five Towns Jewish Times
What? Rav Elyashiv’s grandfather invented the first Anger Management program? Well, let’s start at the...
Cutting Edge Teshuvos: The Genius of Hagaon Rav Asher Weiss
By Yitzchok Adlerstein
We routinely turn away contributors of "pure" halacha and hashkafa pieces. Not that our regular contributors undervalue them. To the contrary, I...
Making a Kiddush Hashem: Social Issues and Politics
By Yisroel Feldman, Novato, California
Part I. At http://matzav.com/obamacare-will-kill-millions-of-babies there was reported how various political factions brought out serious concerns that the President's Health Care...
