Morsi’s Anti-Semitism Reveals More About Us Than Him
By Ben Cohen, JNS.org
It's a story that began with an eagle-eyed Jewish blogger who writes under the pseudonym "Challah Hu Akbar"...
Readers’ Matzav: Mishloach Manos Gone Mad
Dear Editor,
I am writing in regard to the 'mishloach manos syndrome,' the extravagance and pressure that has gotten out of hand. Priorities are misplaced,...
Eating Some Humble Pie… In the Sukkah
By Rabbi Naphtali Hoff
Why do we make the sukkah (shortly) after Yom Kippur? Since we find the Holy One, blessed be He, sitting (in...
Simchas Torah: The Ultimate Joy
By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss
We are informed that Hashem created the world for kindness, as it says “Olam chesed Yiboneh.” Avraham Avinu arrived at...
Oops! Is No Excuse
By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
"Speak to the Children of Israel, saying, When a person will sin unintentionally from among all the commandments...
Al Gore: We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change
The following article by Al Gore appeared in yesterday's New York Times:
It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the...
Is your conflict hot or cold?
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This Is Real
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
This week’s parsha, Vayechi, tells of the passing of Yaakov Avinu. The posuk states, “Vayikrivu yemei Yisroel lomus vayikra levno leYosef”...
A Holy Man; A Holy Nation
By S. Friedman
For this column I am simply retelling an incredible story that I was zoche to hear from Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen shlit"a,...
Israel’s Morally Impossible Self-Defense
By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD
Seeming to give credence to Orwell's observation that "Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those...
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...
We Don’t Know “Why”
By Yeshiva Ateres Shimon
We Do Know "What"
We Do Know "When"
We Do Know "Where"
We Do Know "How"
We don't know "why" Hashem chose to take a...
Sharpening Our Empathy for Our Brethren
By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss
What happened in Paris with the horrifying massacre in cold blood of 190 innocent people caused outrage, sympathy, and concern...
The Iranian Nuclear Threat Is Not about Israel
By Dore Gold
Last week, Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's former national security advisor appeared on the morning television program of the MSNBC network and was...
The Insourcing Boom
For much of the past decade, General Electric's storied Appliance Park, in Louisville, Kentucky, appeared less like a monument to American manufacturing prowess than a...
Last Shabbos of the Year = All the Shabbosim of 5776
By Rabbi Avi Neuberger
The Bris Avrohom (of Slonim) would say: Since Chazal write, “One day of the year can be considered like the complete...
Pinchos Focused
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
Parshas Pinchos weaves together themes and ideas that seem unconnected. The parsha opens with the enduring act of zealotry by Pinchos,...
Why Should Sholom Rubashkin Receive a Life Sentence?
From the pages of the Wall Street Journal today: Worldcom fraudster Bernie Ebbers got a 25 year sentence. Enron's Jeff Skilling got a little...
Syria ‘Solving’ its Palestinian Problem and No One Seems to Mind
By Yori Yanover
If you ask me, the IDF leadership as well as the entire Netanyahu cabinet should adopt the Syrian army's play book,...
We Raised $54 for Sholom Mordechai
Dear Editor@Matzav,
We are Rochele Lew (10), Dovid Lew (9) and Sholom Posner (11) - cousins/siblings. We have earned $54 for the Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin...
