Revelation Takes Work: Holiness is A Step by Step Engagement
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
Imagine a Hollywood director envisioning the moment when Shemos closes. Here was a people who, having been redeemed from slavery had come into...
Footsteps of Geulah
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
On Sunday, we entered the period commonly known as The Three Weeks, when we mourn the destruction of the...
Phony Obama-Netanyahu Conflict Diverts Attention From Real Issues
By Abraham H. Miller
Until the Obama administration decided to shift its support away from Israel because of a rather torturous interpretation of Israeli Prime...
Our Mantra
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
In the Torah, there are several references to mountains that are central to Yiddishkeit. The first is Har Hamoriah, which Avrohom...
What Hostess Gift Do You Like Best?
By A Mother in Israel
My husband and I host guests regularly and have received our share of appreciative gifts. I do not invite guests...
No, Rabbi Riskin: Reform and Conservative Movements Are a Danger
By Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer
It is sometimes hard to believe what we are reading, as things are turned upside down in an effort to be politically...
The Spiritual Shidduch Crisis
By Yoel Small
More and more Americans are choosing not to marry. The percentage of never married Americans over the age of 25 has more...
Lauder’s NY Times Op-Ed Misrepresents World Jewry
By Gabe Groisman
Ronald Lauder saw it fit to publish an opinion piece in the NY Times about what he believes is wrong with Israel...
A Flash of Comfort
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
All around the world, in shuls, shtieblach and botei medrash of all types, Jews feel waves of comfort and peace this Shabbos. As...
Feathers in the Wind: A Response to Matzav’s Editorial “We Protest Bizayon HaTorah”
By Yaakov Segal
Web sites and blogs have totally redefined the famous mashal (example) regarding one who spews Lashon Hara or Motzei Shem Rah into...
How J Street Misled Obama Into Netanyahu Speech Debacle
By Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn
Who misled President Obama into his losing showdown over Prime Minister Netanyahu's blockbuster speech to Congress?
And how much...
Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz; A Different Type of Philanthropist
By Joshua Nass
There are many young men like myself that face an ongoing struggle of committing to our careers while trying the best we...
The Matzav Rant: The Work of the Shadchan
By Shmuel Miskin
The topic of shidduchim is on so many people's minds, and for this rant, I'd like to share not my own feelings, but...
The Matzav Shmoooze: $21,000 for Misery?
Dear readers,
I just got off the phone from a two-hour conversation with my daughter who is in seminary in Eretz Yisroel. Yes, you guessed...
Unpublished Heroes
By Rabbi Avi Shafran
I think it's time I came clean regarding my doubts about Judaism, about everything I was taught by my parents and...
Our Baaleboss: They See Ugly Blood, We See Dam Milah
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Referring to the month of Elul, the Mishnah Berurah (Orach Chaim 581) writes in the introduction to the halachos of...
Redemption of Speech and Geulah
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The unique spiritual energy of this special season comes to a fore this Shabbos as the power of Rosh Chodesh merges...
The Matzav Shmoooze: Our Children’s Safety – A Wake-Up Call
Dear fellow readers,
I had been following the situation with Leiby Kletzky very closely. I davened for him, and when I heard the terrible news...
Weprin vs. Turner: Sorry Excuses Can’t Conceal Truth
By John Podhoretz
If and when the news comes tonight that a conservative Republican has won the special congressional election in a Brooklyn-Queens district with...
The Last Thing We Need is a Degenerated and Compromised Orthodoxy: A Response to...
By Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer
It’s hard to take the article seriously, due to its vast misunderstanding of what Orthodox Judaism should be as well as...
