Hillary Clinton: No Neutral When it Comes to Israel
By Hillary Clinton
I didn’t grow up celebrating Pesach. But over the years, I’ve attended seders where I was inspired by the remarkable story told in...
Student. Scholar.
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
Not long ago, a prominent matchmaker replied to a request for shidduchim by writing that she has many, many wonderful young...
You’re Ending Your E-mails Wrong
By R. Greenfield
It’s time to stop using “best.” The most succinct of e-mail signoffs, it seems harmless enough, appropriate for anyone with whom you...
He is With Us
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
The Ramchal (Derech Hashem, Avodas Hazeman, Sukkah) discusses the ananei hakavod that protected the Jewish people in the midbar. He says...
Complete and Utter Sadness
By Rav Ron Yitzchok Eisenman, Congregation Ahavas Israel, Passaic, NJ
There are no words which can be said.
There are no words which can console.
There are...
The Matzav Rant: Mother-Mother, Father-Father
By Shmuel Miskin, Matzav.com
I've been scratching my head so often these days about numerous matters that if I continue scratching, I might just penetrate...
Tziporah – The First Lady of Klal Yisroel
By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss
As we go through the Parshios of the saga in Mitzrayim and the dramatic Exodus, the splitting of the Red...
Modern Day Eichah
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Sometimes all you can do is ask, "Eichah? How could it happen?" Sometimes there are no answers and there is nothing...
Fasting: Exercise In Righteousness or Just Hunger Pangs?
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
Our calendar is dotted with a number of fast days, days when we are called upon to deny ourselves the ...
HE’S BACK: Shlomo Riskin Pushes for “Mixed Services” at the Kosel
Shlomo Riskin, controversial rabbi of Efrat – who, among other things, has led a group of “Orthodox” rabbis who advocate for increased partnership between...
Living in Learning – Lernen Un Noch Lernen
By Yonason Rosenblum
Whenever I ask myself precisely what makes me chareidi, I come back to a story I read recently about Maran Rav Aharon...
Seeing The Good
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
It is interesting that as we enter the period of the most enjoyable weather, following the Yom Tov of Shavuos...
What Is Mussar?
by Yisroel Schor
What is mussar? What is the movement all about and what is the underlying truth our masters are trying to portray to...
Paskening Like the Blogs
By Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer
A few people commented to me that it seems like the ruling by the OU Rabbinic Panel that women can’t be ordained or...
Israel and the Midterm Elections
By Dovid Efune
While strolling down 5th Avenue last Sunday in New York's Upper East Side I was browsing through the wares of various sidewalk vendors...
World Jewish Congress Chief Ronald Lauder: Recent Anti-Israel Riots ‘Looked More Like 1936 Than...
World Jewish Congress (WJC) president Ronald Lauder compared anti-Israel protests during the summer to an era when Adolf Hitler ruled Germany and the anti-Semitic...
Rabbi Shmuli Kahan: With Pride and Prestige – Haaretz Hatovah
Haaretz Hatovah
Real Life Stories and Experiences of Yidden Settling in Eretz Yisroel.
One theme that I have kept to throughout my life is to keep...
Spinoza and Farcical “Orthodoxy”
By Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer
He rejected the concept of divine revelation; he equated God with nature; he denied the idea of a personal God, Who...
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...
The Nullity Of Being, The Greatness Of Being
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
At the core of man is duality. Some might suggest contradiction. Regardless of how it is characterized, man's essential duality...
