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UTJ Opposes Bill to Monitor Girls Who Avoid IDF Induction

The Knesset Legislating Committee, despite opposition by chareidi Knesset factions, decided to back a government-sponsored bill to set up an apparatus to monitor young...

Video: Mishkoltz Simchas Bais Hashoeivah in Petach Tikvah With Meidad Tasa

The following video was taken at the grand Simchas Bais Hashoeivah held at Mishkoltz in Petach Tikvah and presided over by the Mishkoltzer...

Former Secretary of State Rice Takes Question from Jewish Fourth Grader

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Jewish elementary school students that the Bush administration did not use illegal interrogation tactics. Her remarks were...

Secular Group Decries Chareidization of the Kosel

''The Jerusalemites,' a secular group, is complaining the women's area in front of the Kosel being reduced in size, and that men and women...

Listen: The 20-Minute Daf Yomi Shiur By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld – Eiruvin 72

AMUD ALEF: AMUD BAIS: SHAKLA VETARIA: TOSAFOS IN SUMMARY: HALACHOS OF THE DAF: TO ACCESS ALL PRIOR SHIURIM, CLICK HERE. To listen to the shiurim on Kol Halashon, call 718.906.6400...

Photos: Dangers Without, Dangers Within: Sunday Morning Sessions at the Agudah Convention

Jews attend Agudah conventions for many reasons - to hear words of Torah and hadracha from gedolim and rabbonim, to participate in the...

Rav Yaakov Bender to Address Boston Kollel Reception Tonight in Lawrence

Every year, some 250,000 students, of whom 30,000-40,000 are Jewish, attend Boston-area universities. Enter the Boston Kollel. Founded in 1988, the kollel, under the...

OU Moves To Publish New Soloveitchik Siddur With Koren

In April, the JTA reported on the controversy surrounding the debut of the Sacks Siddur, also published jointly by the OU and Koren. The...

Shloshim Gathering for Rabbi David B. Hollander zt”l

A gathering for the shloshim of Rabbi David B. Hollander zt"l, the legendary askan l'sheim Shomayim and confidante of gedolei Yisroel of the previous...

39 Cities Represented at Bnos Leaders Convention

Woodridge, New York was the site this past Shabbos of the 26th Annual Bnos Agudas Yisroel Convention, which brought together 250 Bnos leaders from...

Majority of Seculars: Intermarriage Okay as Long as Child is Happy

The reality of assimilation among Diaspora Jews does not particularly worry most Israelis. A joint Ynet-Gesher survey conducted following the Jewish Agency's controversial ad...

Kesiva Vechasima Tovah from Matzav.com

On this Erev Rosh Hashanah morning, the final day of 5769, we would like to thank our tens of thousands of devoted readers across...

Opinion: ‘Starving Mother’ Case Part Of Campaign Of Persecution Against Orthodox

By Dudi Zilbershlag Anyone looking for reinforcements to the claim that Israel is home to an anti-chareidi campaign of persecution got what they were...

Yossi Piamenta & Co. at Chavrei Hakollel

A large crowd gathered late last night at Chavrei Hakollel of Lakewood for an informal musical melava malka with Yossi Piamenta and his...

New Yeshiva Offers Free Sukkah Building in Flatbush and Boro Park

As part of a community service and chesed program, Yeshiva Simchas Chaim in conjunction with Bikur Cholim of Boro Park, is offering to build...

Armed Crooks Ransack Douek Home in Flatbush

The Brooklyn home of the owner of Willoughby's Camera was "ransacked" last night by three robbers who locked two children in a bathroom and...

Clinton Will Try To Free Fish For Pesach

The Associated Press reports: Free the gefilte fish! Just in time for Passover, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will try to resolve a...

Crist Says He Was Swamped With Support For Martin Grossman, But “Facts” Prevailed

Before Martin Edward Grossman was put to death by lethal injection at 6:17 p.m. yesterday, he said,  "I would like to extend my heartfelt...

Askanim Mission Goes to Albany to Restore Yeshiva Funding

With New York State's yeshivos facing a possible loss of some $15 million in state funds, a delegation of yeshiva administrators, parents and Agudath...

Lead Poisoning – A Possible Danger of Eating Shlissel Challah?

Keys have been found to leave behind unsafe amounts of lead, leading some to suggest that the practice of placing keys in challahs in...

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