Dear Editor, I saw in the Israeli press a very interesting news item which caught my attention: There was a story regarding the Israeli Prime Minister who encountered a uncomfortable experience which he managed to turn into a קידוש השם. His downstairs floor where the kitchen and dining room are located in his house got flooded on Friday [… Read More »
In Israel, right up to the end of life, Jews do not forget to acknowledge and honor the sacrifice of a Righteous Gentile. So it was with Anna Hornung, deemed Righteous Among the Nations, who recently passed away in Haifa. Her funeral, held in the Kiryat Tivon Cemetery, was an intimate affair attended by family, close [… Read More »
The Chevron Yeshiva, one of Israel’s oldest and most prestigious yeshivas, is celebrating its 135th anniversary as the “incubator for all yeshivos.” Founded in Slobodka, Lithuania, the yeshiva is known throughout the Torah world as “the mother of all yeshivas. Read More »
If Cairo unilaterally decides to alter the peace treaty with Israel, Israel will ask why sign agreements with other neighbors if these accords are not kept, Intelligence Agencies Minister Dan Meridor said Monday. Read More »
A Wall Street Journal Editorial: Is the Obama Administration more concerned that Iran may get a nuclear weapon, or that Israel may use military force to prevent Iran from doing so? The answer is the latter, judging from comments on Sunday by Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey. Appearing on CNN, General Dempsey sent [… Read More »
By Yedidya Atlas The latest in the Obama administration’s campaign to convince an already skeptical public that Iran should not be attacked – by either the US or Israel, is none other than the Hon. Dennis B. Ross. In his February 6th appearance at The Aspen Institute he expressed confidence that “the emergence of crippling sanctions” [… Read More »
The Israeli High Court of Justice ruled thisevening to accept a petition against the legality of the Tal Law, passed by the Knesset in 2002. The law was designed to encourage frum men to enlist in the IDF or for national service, while allowing those who choose not to serve but to study Torah full-time [… Read More »
Israel will need to use at least 100 planes and fly more than 1,000 miles above unfriendly airspace should it decide to attack Iran, the New York Times reported today, citing the assessment of U.S. defense officials close to the Pentagon. According to the report, American military analysts and defense officials believe that an Israeli strike [… Read More »
An Israeli air strike on Iran, with the intent of knocking out that country’s nuclear facilities, may only speed Tehran’s race to build a bomb, a nuclear policy expert told CBS News. The comments come as U.S. National Security Adviser Tom Donilon was visiting Israel to voice America’s concerns over the prospect of an Israeli attack, [… Read More »
The United States must let Israel attack Iran now, before it is too late to stop “a maniacal radical regime” from acquiring nuclear weapons, Naftali Bennett, former Chief of Staff for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, told Mike Huckabee on his Saturday time slot on Fox News. Bennett, who also served two years as director of the [… Read More »
The Israeli military will today deploy a battery of rocket interceptors from its “Iron Dome” system in the Tel Aviv region, a military spokesman said on Sunday. “Iron Dome is being incorporated into the heart of the Israeli military. As part of this process, the system is deployed in different sites and will be in the [… Read More »
Heavy rains forced Jews out of the Meoras Hamachpeilah in Chevron on Shabbos because of lack of government funds for maintenance, according to the Chevron Jewish community. Israel was happy to receive the much needed rain and snow which helped replenish the Kinneret and underground water sources, but the flooding of the holy site in Chevron [… Read More »
The Israeli Cottage Cheese boycott leaders are threatening to launch a new boycott against Strauss Group Ltd. over differences in prices for the company’s products in Israel and overseas. Read More »
Thousands around the globe are davening for the health of Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, and this past week, an avreich in Yerushalayim took one step further, offering one year of his own life for the Ribono Shel Olamto lengthen Rav Elyashiv’s life. The yungerman, identified only as Aharon, told the Israeli chareidi media that he thought [… Read More »
By Ray Takeyh Bombastic claims of nuclear achievement, threats to close critical international waterways, alleged terrorist plots and hints of diplomatic outreach – all are emanating from Tehran right now. Read More »
A military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities is “not prudent” at the present moment, America’s top military official, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, told “CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS” in an interview set to air this morning. “It’s not prudent at this point to decide to attack Iran,” said Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, [… Read More »
Rabbi Meir Brody, director of Agudath Israel of America’s New Jersey regional office, reacted to the New Jersey legislature’s decision to upend the traditional meaning of marriage, asserting that “the recent votes demand that we speak up and declare Read More »
Dear Matzav, I normally do not contact news sites, but feel I have to share my story with you. I am graduate student and work for a non-profit Jewish educational organization. One of the things I have learned working there is that my co-workers like Matzav or YWN as one of their Jewish new sources. Ever since then, [… Read More »
The following is a shiur delivered by Harav Yisroel Reisman, maggid shiur in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and mara d’asra of Agudath Israel of Madison. The shiur, on ParshasMishpatim was delivered to Rav Reisman’s alumni over the telephone. Read More »
The Mormon Church on Tuesday apologized that its members had performed posthumous baptisms into Mormonism of the long-dead Jewish parents of famed Nazi hunter and Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal. Read More »
Two civilian employees of the Defense Ministry are recovering from a near lynch attempt on Monday. The two were traveling to Mount Scopus in Yerushalayim when they accidentally made a wrong turn and ended up stuck in a traffic jam between two Arab cars. A crowd of Arab youths then showed up and began throwing rocks [… Read More »
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz His talmidim often recall how the famed Philadelphia rosh mesivta, Rav Mendel Kaplan, made each day an experience. Like the moshol given by Chazal in this week’s parsha, he prepared a shulchan aruch for his talmidim filled with a variety of dishes so that everybody had something to taste. This week’s parsha [… Read More »
El Al Israel Airlines CEO (Maj.-Gen. res.) Eliezer Shkedi told the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee today that the airline was less able to compensate passengers for delayed or cancelled flights than other airlines. The committee is discussing a private member’s bill on the issue by Ahmed Tibi (Ra’am-Ta’al). Read More »
The Ginsberg family of Boro Park – Shterna, Aron and their nine children – invite Oprah to join them for a traditional Jewish meal of gefilte fish, matzo ball soup, potato kugel and challah bread. During the meal, Oprah asks the children about growing up without television and test their pop culture knowledge. [… Read More »
By Rabbi Michoel Farkas I know that we usually look in more spiritual places for lessons and chizuk. I know that sports is not the most Torahdike medium from which to derive encouragement or any sort of inspiration. So forgive me for doing just that. Yes, I will be sharing inspiration from Linsanity. Forgive me. Please do. [… Read More »
Inexplicably, Facebook has managed to do what Ahmadinejad can only dream of: wipe Israel off the map. Crownheights.info double checked the claim, and we can verify as of the publication of this article that it is absolutely true. When you click on the option to turn on text messaging, Facebook promts you to fill in your country [… Read More »
By Jonathan Tobin I have not been the biggest fan of Ethan Bronner of the New York Times. The reportage by Bronner, who spent the last four years as the Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times, was a mixed bag. Though he was clearly a talented reporter who often did some good work highlighting [… Read More »
The U.S. budget proposed by the Obama administration for 2013 would cut the funding for Israeli missile defense programs by $6 million, Israeli officials said on Monday. The cut would affect the development of Short Range Ballistic Missile Defense program and Arrow System Improvement Program. Read More »
The battle over Iran’s nuclear weapons programme reached India on Monday as an Israeli diplomat’s car was hit by a terror strike barely 200 metres from the official residence of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Read More »
By Doniel Akst A ballplayer from a minority not normally associated with big-time sports bursts onto the scene, tearing up the league with his spirited play. Read More »
By Daniel Klaidman Well before he moved into the White House, Barack Obama began talking toIsrael about Iran’s nuclear program, and even then there was mistrust. Read More »
The OU has announced a program to highlight communities where full Orthodox lives may be experienced, but at a much more moderate cost. The objective is to interest Orthodox Jews to resettle there and to help the community grow. The pilot community is Houston, Texas, the fourth largest American city, with an estimated 2010 population of [… Read More »
The Israeli Treasury and the Histadrut Labor Federation announced today that the general strike launched across Israel last week has ended. In a joint statement, the parties said that the five-day strike ended with agreements on all core issues. The agreement followed marathonic negotiations and several Labor Court extensions. Read More »
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu bade farewell to outgoing Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch today, in a meeting attended by all of the Supreme Court judges, including the new President, Judge Asher Grunis. “I wanted to thank you on behalf of the Nation of Israel and the State of Israel,” he said, “for your long, courageous [… Read More »
Mossad officials are training Iranian dissident activists to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists, a NBC News report citing U.S. officials said on Thursday. The report noted, however, that Washington was not directly involvement in the alleged attacks. The report by NBC News followed Iranian accusations that Israel and the U.S. Read More »
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman There is a wide variety of synagogues and Shteiblach in our communities. These houses of worship have different types of Mechitzos. Some are see-through. Some are are one-way glass and some are so high that they resemble an iron curtain. In a conversation about Mechitzos with Rabbi Yaakov Feitman, Rav of the Red [… Read More »
By Dovid Efune After filing to go public on the 1st of this month, Facebook’s highly anticipated offering is expected to be the largest in history, as the company is valued at up to $100 billion. The largest tech IPO since Google, market and technology focused outlets have been buzzing with comparisons between the two goliaths [… Read More »
Hamas “will never recognize Israel,” Hamas Prime Minister in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh stated today “The fight will continue for the liberation of the entire land of Palestine and Jerusalem and the return of all Palestinian refugees,” he said. He was speaking on the 33rd anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Read More »
Ben Lang gets a kick out of sharing the story of how he received a cease-and-desist order from the New York Times for making a website called freenewyorktimes.com, which explained how to get around the venerable newspaper’s impending pay wall. “They shut down my server for a week, and I couldn’t even login to take down [… Read More »
The hacker group “Anonymous” released a video Friday threatening to begin a ‘reign of terror’ against Israel, in the latest round of cyber warfare between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli hackers. Read More »
The following is a shiur delivered by Harav Yisroel Reisman, maggid shiur in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and mara d’asra of Agudath Israel of Madison. The shiur, on ParshasYisro was delivered to Rav Reisman’s alumni over the telephone. Rav Reisman makes a strong effort to keep in touch with all his talmidim even after they have left [… Read More »
By Rabbi Eliyahu Fink Rarely does a day go by without the words of Rabbi Yosef Tendler echoing through my mind. This is how great an impact one man was able to make upon me. What are Rabbi Tendler’s word that echo in my mind and the mind of the thousands of other students who were fortunate [… Read More »
Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli foreign minister, last night visited the kever of the late Ribnitzer Rebbe in Rockland County NY. The Rebbe passed away more than a decade ago after residing for many years in Monsey. Lieberman, who like the Rebbe was born in Russia, said he fulfilled a long-standing wish to visit the Rebbe’s kever. Read More »
In an address recently delivered to an AIPAC audience in New York, New Jersey governor Chris Christie articulated a responsible view of America’s role in the world, stressing the importance of us standing by our friends and taking action against our adversaries. Read More »
In 1971, Rabbi Mayer Kurcfeld came to Baltimore to learn at Yeshivas Ner Yisrael. It is difficult enough for the average 15-year-old to adjust to an out-of-town yeshiva. As a stutterer, young Mayer faced even more challenges. His stutter was so bad he could not say a simple “hello”; he even had trouble getting out [… Read More »
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz We live in very precarious times. There is so much good in our community. There is so much Torah being studied and such high standards being set in chinuch, kashrus, tznius and many other areas. More people than ever dedicate their lives to the study and dissemination of Torah. Chessed organizations [… Read More »
Foreign embassies in Israel have recently started to formulate contingency plans to evacuate their citizens from the Jewish State in case of a missile attack on Israel. Senior officials in Jerusalem said that several diplomatic missions have shown great interest in preparing for various emergency situations, Yediot Achronot reported Tuesday. Read More »
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met today with Rabbi Chaim Druckman to thank him for the eight years in which he has headed the State Conversion Array, which handles cases of geirus. The meeting between the Prime Minister and Rabbi Druckman, who is the head of the Bnei Akiva Yeshiva Center and head of Or [… Read More »
Gilad Shalit, the IDF soldier released on October 18 after five years of captivity in Gaza met today with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, at the Elysee Palace. Gilad was accompanied by his parents Noam and Aviva Shalit who will also be guests of honor at the annual Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF) dinner on [… Read More »
By Rabbi Yehuda Spitz Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632 – 1723), although not the developer of the first rudimentary microscope, nonetheless is the figure most closely associated with the microscope’s mystique. Read More »
By Rabbi Naphtali Hoff When we speak of Tu B’Shvat (the 15th of Shvat), the New Year for trees, thoughts of joyous tunes, tree planting ceremonies and the consumption of fruit come to mind. Certainly it is a day that we all look forward to. But what exactly is Tu B’Shvat, in [… Read More »
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday released a new doctrine explaining why it would be ‘legally and morally justified’ to commit genocide and wipe Israel off the map. “Israel is a cancerous tumor in the Middle East,” Khameini wrote for the ultraconservative Farsi-language Alefnews site. Read More »
By www.GourmetKosherCooking.com Tu B’Shvat is the New Year for the trees when we customarily eat a variety of fruits, specifically those from the seven species for which the Land of Israel is praised (wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates). These fabulous fruit-themed recipes are sure to enhance your Tu B’Shvat table. Read More »
Israel is right to be concerned about Iran’s push to join the league of nations that possess nuclear weapons, but diplomacy – not military intervention – remains the “preferred solution” to averting a potential arms race in the Middle East, President Barack Obama said Sunday. During a live interview with TODAY’s Matt Lauer, the president left [… Read More »
Reposted: Friday, 1: 37 p.m.: It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rabbi Shlomo Boruch Pomerantz z”l of Chicago, who was niftar after battling a difficult illness. Rabbi Pomerantz was formerly a rebbi at Arie Crown Hebrew Day School in Chicago, where he was beloved by student and parent [… Read More »
When the New York Giants and New England Patriots take the field for Sunday’s Super Bowl, most of the country will focus on the athletes wearing the jerseys. However, from a Jewish perspective, the story behind these football franchises comes from those wearing suits in the owner’s box. The Giants are co-owned by the Tisch family, [… Read More »
By Rabbi Mordechai Binik, Yeshiva Siach Yitzchok Rebbeim are given the greatest job, which is: to educate and be מחנך the future generation. It is the mostrewarding job and gives you the most fulfilling sensation when you are able to give over the curriculum of the year- and reach to a boy’sנשמה and elevate him during [… Read More »
Is Iran trying to develop a missile that could reach the “Great Satan”? The missile under construction at an Iranian research-and-development facility, which was damaged by a mysterious explosion in November, was a long-range missile prototype with a Read More »
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Rabbi Shlomo Boruch Pomerantz z”l of Chicago, who was niftar after battling a difficult illness. Thousands had been davening for a refuah sheleimah for Shlomo Boruch ben Shaindel Bracha, who had recently written various letters of chizuk as a zechus for his refuah. The letters [… Read More »
The following is a shiur delivered by Harav Yisroel Reisman, maggid shiur in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and mara d’asra of Agudath Israel of Madison. The shiur, on ParshasBeshalach was delivered to Rav Reisman’s alumni over the telephone. Read More »
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