Gadlus Ha’adam: Rav Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi zt”l

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Rav Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi zt”l would tell the story of one of the times he went to ask the Brisker Rov...

Eat, Drink and Be Merry….

By Yochanan Gordon With all of the wine stores and companies gearing up for their biggest business season of the year and their advertising campaigns...

A Jew Is Really Different

By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss In Havdalah, we declare that Hashem differentiates between the Holy and the mundane, between day and night, between the Jew...

Wall Street Journal: Obama’s Speech Most Dishonest in Decades

The following editorial appears in the Wall Street Journal: Did someone move the 2012 election to June 1? We ask because President Obama's extraordinary response to...

Dershowitz: Obama Should Stop Attacking and Start Answering

By Alan Dershowitz President Obama, in his desperation to save his Iran deal, has taken to attacking its opponents in personal ways. He has accused...

How the International Community Facilitates Hamas’ Use of Human Shields

By Alan Dershowitz How many times have you heard on television or read in the media that the Gaza Strip is "the most densely populated...

Elie Wiesel’s Undying Message: Don’t Just Memorialize. Act.

By Sara J. Bloomfield  In 1973, five years before President Jimmy Carter would appoint Elie Wiesel to chair a commission to determine how the United States...

A Message from the Kaliver Rebbe for Pesach 5774

These days we seem to live in a results-oriented society where people expect practical action to yield tangible, predictable and often immediate rewards....

Clinging to Truth

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz There are various terms used in Hebrew to refer to our nation. The one that is used most often is...

Opinion: U.S. Jews Should Respond To The Murders With More Than Tears

By Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn Jews throughout the United States will hold memorial services this week to mourn the murders of the three...

‘All the News That’s Fit to Print’ Really?

By Jerold Auerbach Among the many Israeli sources of irritation for The New York Times, none is more persistently aggravating than Jewish settlements. August...

A Nation of Spirit

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Last Friday, our brothers and sisters were trapped in a Paris supermarket. Engaged in the lofty activity of preparing for...

The Contagion of Divorce

By Rabbi Menachem Rosenfeld On May 1, 2014, Matzav.com summarized the results of a study on divorce that concluded that divorce may be socially ...

The Most Overlooked Line in Netanyahu’s Address

By Robert Satloff Since Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed Congress on Tuesday, critics and advocates have debated everything from the metaphors and alliteration...

Opinion: Don’t Involve Pollard in Peace Talks

By Jonathan Tobin As I wrote earlier, it is nothing less than a disgrace for the Obama administration to be pressuring Israel to release 82 Palestinian...

Bring Them Home

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Sadly, it is a familiar script. We face the tragedies of three sweet bochurim, and at the same time, we cannot help but...

Can You Help?

By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran   There is no disease in the world for which Hashem had not already created the cure. The task is for us to...

Opinion: On The EMS Issue: Do What is Best For The Taxpayer

By E. Davidowitz, Matzav.com Much ink has been spilled regarding the possible privatizing of Lakewood Township's emergency medical services. In an effort to cut costs,...

Hashovas Aveidah: I Found an Earring

Dear Editor, On Monday of Chol Hamoed Pesach, I found a woman's earring in the children's playground in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. I would like to...

In Criminal Cases, All-Out Efforts To Get The Court’s Attention

By Tony Mauro, The National Law Journal The chances of convincing the Supreme Court to grant review in a criminal case are astronomically low. So ...

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