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Chicago’s Sears Tower to Open Glass-Bottom Skydeck in June
4-Foot Ledge Walkway Will Let Visitors Look 103 Stories Straight Down
Sears Tower - and it's still called that for the time being - will...
Paterson Settles Suit for Firing Whit Photog to Hire Black One
New York Gov. David Paterson, who raised state taxes by $8 billion last month, just cost state taxpayers $300,000 more. The state has secretly...
Daughter of Harav Dovid Schustal Engaged
The engagement of the youngest daughter of Harav Dovid Schustal, rosh hayeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoah in Lakewood, NJ, has been announced. The chosson,...
Iraq Launches Project to Renovate Kever of Yechezkel Hanovi
The Iraqi government has launched a project to renovate the interior of Yechezkel Hanovi's kever in the small town of Kifl, south of Baghdad,...
The Swine Flu in the Gemara
Gemara Taanis 21b (elucidation in brackets):
They once said to Rav Yehudah: There is a deadly plague among the pigs. He decreed a fast .
Shall...
The Art of Growth
By Rabbi Avi Shafran
I don't often ride the New York subways, but not long ago I found myself leaving a train deep beneath Brooklyn,...
Book: FDR Pushed to Get Jews to Safety in 1930s
Newly uncovered documents reveal that President Franklin D. Roosevelt worked quietly in the late 1930s to find havens for European Jews, contradicting the view...
Countdown
By Rabbi Getzy Markowitz
Everyone seems to be counting these days. Americans have just finished counting the first 100 days of the Obama Presidency. Jews...
Shaking Out a Tablecloth Outdoors On Shabbos
In the early days of farming a mixed collection of grain kernels, chaff and stem debris, would remain on the threshing grounds after the...
Rav Brazil: Take the Challenge
By Rav Shmuel Brazil
Our Chazal say that 24,000 talmidim of Rabbe Akiva died during this period because they did not give kavod to one...
Rabbi: Torah Mandates to Return Phone Calls, Text Messages
There is a Jewish religious imperative to return the call of someone who called you and left a message, Rabbi Yisroel Rosen, head of...
Can Israeli Technology Stop Swine Flu?
A Petach Tikvah start-up has developed a system - called the Bull-Connect - that can remotely monitor the health of each pig in a...
Bloomberg’s Budget To Call For Sales Tax Hike
The official word is set for noon today. That's when New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg reveals his budget bombshell. It's expected to include...
Liberal-Leaning Justice Souter to Retire, Obama Gets His Turn to Appoint
Justice David Souter is planning to retire after nearly two decades on the Supreme Court, but his departure is unlikely to change its conservative-liberal...
Vaccine Promised as Swine Flu Cases Pass 100
U.S. authorities are pledging to eventually produce enough swine flu vaccine for everyone but the shots couldn't begin until fall at the earliest. Worries...
Today’s Yahrzteits & History – 7-8 Iyar
Yahrtzeits - 7 Iyar
-Rav Shlomo Ephraim of Luntchitz, author of Kli Yakar and Ololos Ephraim. Rav Shlomo Ephraim was born in Lunchitz in Poland....
Bochur in Japan Sentenced, Extradition Efforts Underway
Breaking report: The sentencing of Yosef ben Ita Rivka, Yosef Banda, the youngest of the three bochurim unfairly imprisoned in Japan, took place a...
Updated – June 2nd: Vote Jewish, Vote Solomon; Solomon Issues Retraction On Singer-Tomchei Shabbos...
By Avi Solomon
June 2nd is an important day for Republicans in the State of NJ. June 2nd is the primary election for the...
Bloomberg To Biden: Think I’ll Take The Subway
As reported here on Matzav.com, Vice President Joe Biden, on one of the morning talk shows today, when asked about travel advice to his...
US Ambassador to Israel Meets With Rav Elyashiv
US Ambassador to Israel James B. Cunningham paid a visit, along with Alex Daniels director of the American Cultural Center, and an entourage, to...
