Golus Jews
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Yaakov Avinu is referred to as “The Av of Golus.” Though he wasn’t the first of the avos to be exiled,...
The Bad Apples
By S. Friedman
Perhaps you've heard of Shauly Grossman, the wayward former chossid who curiously keeps his name. Or his partner and friend,...
Readers’ Matzav: Nightmare in Newark for Yeshiva Bochur
Dear Matzav,
I'd like to share with you a letter I just wrote to the Department of Homeland Security after an outrageous experience we just had...
The Matzav Shmoooze: A Plea from Yerushalayim – Where Are Our Vaunted Chareidi MKs...
Dear [email protected],
There’s total chaos here in the streets of Yerushalayim. The Israeli police continue to lock down and cordon off chareidi areas without reason,...
The Uneducated Teaching the Unvaccinated
By Sarah Levine, BSN RN & Dr. Blima Marcus, DNP ANP-BC RN OCN
The regional measles outbreak has sparked major controversy within the Jewish community....
A Tale of Two Restaurants: What Do WE Think The Role Of A Hechsher...
Dear Matzav,
The story of a restaurant in Lakewood that put up an Israeli flag on Yom Ha'atzmaut made headlines last week when rumors began...
Opinion: The Shidduch Crisis Was Created by Humans
By Rabbi Yitschak Rudomin MA
I was recently visiting someone to be Menachem Ovel (comforting mourners) and was asked if the proverbial "Shidduch Crisis" effected me...
The Torah Revolution
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
This week, the Torah world celebrated a historic milestone. At a time when everything that happens in our world is described...
The Matzav Shmoooze: Fools
Dear Editor,
The stupidity coming out of the recent Yair Hoffman article on Jay Leno and halacha is most interesting and should be in the...
The Matzav Shmoooze: Who Destroyed the Lakewood Real Estate Market?
Dear Editor,
Matzav.com recently reported on the fact that Lakewood has the fastest rising housing prices in the country.
But please report the truth: The main...
Open Orthodoxy’s Last Ditch Struggle for Recognition
By I. Schwartz
Lately, Open Orthodoxy, the fringe left movement of Rabbi Avi Weiss and Yeshivat Chovevei Torah (YCT), has been getting lots of...
The Matzav Shmoooze: What Kind of Yiddishkeit Does This Ad Express?
Dear [email protected],
It seems we have lost all sense of sensitivity and gedarim.
Someone recently showed me as ad for children’s clothing featuring the picture you...
Darkness and Light
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
In this week’s parsha, we study the final three makkos with which Hashem punished Mitzrayim. The ninth makkah was that of...
On the Covid Vaccinations
By Dr. Daniel Berman
Baruch Hashem, Covid 19 is almost completely gone from the frum communities for now. In the whole country, cases are plummeting....
Sorry to Spoil the Cheese Party: A Reply to Rabbi Barry Dolinger’s “Milchig Manifesto...
By Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer
P’sak Halacha is very serious business. To adjudicate Halacha, one must be a grounded halachic authority, whose command of the issues...
Ups and Downs
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Parshas Shelach opens with the tragic episode of the meraglim sent to investigate Eretz Yisroel. The mission, which was led by...
Our Community Is Powerless: Here’s Why
By Ezra Friedlander
We are living in difficult times. There’s been much consternation within our community, and rightfully so, about the apparent double standard currently...
Homesick
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Here we are again in the period we call the Three Weeks, soon to be followed by the Nine Days...
The Changing Cost of Shidduchim in the Chareidi World
By Hannah Katsman
According to an article in the Hebrew edition of Mishpacha, only 10% of students in a particular seminary got engaged last year instead...
Readers’ Matzav: Two Solutions to the Shidduch Crisis – The Theoretical One and the...
Dear [email protected],
At the beginning of the year, there was a kol koreh, an open letter, which was widely publicized, and signed by nearly every...
