Watch: Dr. Meir Wikler: Keep Your Children Out of The Psychotherapist’s Office

In the following video, Dr. Meir Wikler shares the one thing parents can do to ensure that their children grow up emotionally healthy and well...

The Matzav Shmoooze: A Heartbroken Father

Dear Readers, H-E-L-P! I may sound like a broken record to Matzav readers, and yes it is always an issue every year around this time, but...

Opinion: In Defense of Lakewood Poskim, Porch Minyanim – and the True Motivation of...

By Echad Min Hachaburah, Lakewood, NJ I never in my life thought I would have to write something like this. The Lakewood Tzibur and its...

When Did Elul Become A Time To Party?

Dear Matzav Shmooze, I am writing today to be yotzeh my chiyuv to be mocheh. Last night was the first night of selichos. For hundreds of years...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Why Do We Team Up With Mosdos That Don’t Take English...

Dear Editor, I am worried about the proposed NY State regulations that could impact yeshivos, which I have been reading about for the past half...

The Matzav Shmoooze: Thanks for Ruining My Life and Costing Me Thousands

Dear Editor, I am writing this to all the people who have ruined my Yom Tov - and a lot more. My wife and our five...

The Perversion of the “Nine Days Menu”

Have you ever gone to be menachem Avel a woman who lost her young husband? Have you ever been in a shiva home where a...

A Reader Writes: A New Angle On the Shidduch Crisis

Dear Editor, The "age gap theory"* has been receiving attention recently. What is being done to address this problem is providing incentives to make closer-in-age...

What Happens Now?

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz I recently had the good pleasure of meeting Rav Lipa Yisraelson. A grandson of Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, this lovely and...

“Shabbos, Shabbos”

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Before there were religious newspapers, the Jewish media world was owned by the maskilim. It took some time before religious Jewry...

A Fresh Start

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz The Rama (Orach Chaim 582:9) writes that on Rosh Hashanah, people should wish each other, “Leshanah tovah tikoseiv. May you...

The Matzav Shmoooze: We Must Stop the Meshugaim

Dear Editor, Rabbosai, we have meshugaim out there who aren't vaccinating their kids and are trying to get other people to follow their insanity. We...

Time Of Blessing

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Sukkos is a wonderful time of year when we celebrate many mitzvos. Loved and cherished by all, the mitzvos include, of...

Separationists

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz It is interesting that last week, when the Torah introduced us to Noach, it did so in glowing terms, informing us...

Readers’ Matzav: What Are You Bringing Into Your House?

Dear Matzav.com Editor, It is that time of year again when "peace and good will to all men" is upon us. Let me ask you a...

The Torah — and Trump’s Embrace of a Dictator

By Pini Dunner Last week we witnessed momentous and unprecedented scenes in Singapore — as the president of the United States sat down with the...

The Matzav Shmoooze: “I’ll Hang Up and Listen”

Dear Editor, I was recently listening to a talk show on the radio and I heard a caller tell the radio host after sharing his...

See The Good

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz I remember when I was a young, small child, sitting at a classroom desk in Yeshiva of Spring Valley, hanging on...

“Don’t Allow Your Seichel To Be Overwhelmed By The Sight Of Jewish Soldiers”

By Dovid Landesman One of the more famous stories about R.Levi Yitzchak zt"l recalls his visit to the local marketplace. There he came across a...

Transmitting a Message

By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Republicans and many of us were convinced that there would be a great big Red Wave, sweeping them into control...

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