WATCH: Let’s Talk Kashrus – Mind The Gap, Please
Is Your Sukkah Up To Code? You may be comfortable eating at a restaurant under a reliable hashgachah, but what about eating in its sukkah? In this special Sukkos episode, Rabbi Yosef Fund of the KCL in...
View ArticleNetanyahu on Chareidi Draft: ‘I’m Dying to Enlist Them’; Those Who Say ‘We’ll...
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has waded directly into the heated battle over the drafting of chareidim into the IDF, declaring that he intends to increase chareidi enlistment while drawing a...
View ArticleThief Breaks Into Elad Yeshiva on Yom Kippur Night, Steals Thousands From...
Bochurim at Yeshivas Tiferes Halevi in Elad returned to their dormitory following Maariv on Yom Kippur night to discover that a thief had taken advantage of the empty building to break into their rooms...
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Beloved Tosher Gabbai Reb Eliyahu Spitzer Z”L Passes Away Suddenly at 81
The Tosher community in Canada is reeling from the sudden passing of Reb Eliyahu Spitzer z”l, a longtime gabbai of the main Tosher Bais Medrash and one of the senior and beloved figures of the...
View ArticleGovernment Presses Opposition for Support on Food Voucher, Meron Funding...
With Israel’s election approaching, the government is pressing opposition lawmakers to support a series of imminent budget votes involving funding for Shas-associated food vouchers, the annual Lag...
View ArticleBlind 84-Year-Old Jewish Woman Killed in Buenos Aires House Fire; Chief Rabbi...
An 84-year-old blind Jewish woman was killed in a fire that broke out at her two-story home in Buenos Aires on Monday, prompting Argentina’s chief rabbi to intervene with local authorities in an effort...
View ArticleRebbetzin Chana Rottenberg a”h, Author and Wife of Rav Yeshayahu Pinchas...
The Torah community in Yerushalayim is mourning the passing of Rebbetzin Chana Rottenberg a”h, wife of Rav Yeshayahu Pinchas Rottenberg, rov of the Gra Bais Medrash in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of...
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Iran-Linked Death Threats Sent to Yoseph Haddad After Tehran Puts Him on...
Israeli advocacy activist and Amcha Yisrael Knesset candidate Yoseph Haddad received a series of explicit death threats by email on Tuesday, with his party saying the messages appeared to have...
View ArticleDunoff Photography Annual Sukkos Gedolim Poster Sale
A huge display featuring dozens of 8.5×11 and 11×17 posters as well as a large vinyl posters great for hanging in one’s Sukkah or home will be sold for just a few dollars each in Lakewood at the...
View ArticleIsrael Warns Travelers: Don’t Bring Daled Minim Into the Country Without...
Israel’s Agriculture Ministry is warning travelers arriving from overseas ahead of Sukkos not to bring daled minim into the country without the required authorization, saying foreign plant material...
View ArticleKiddush Hashem: Israeli Chess Teams Forfeit Matches Rather Than Play on Yom...
Israel’s men’s and women’s national chess teams accepted automatic 4-0 defeats at the Chess Olympiad in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Monday after declining to compete on Yom Kippur, despite earlier...
View ArticleYom Kippur in the Home of Grodno Rosh Yeshiva Rav Yitzchok Hacker Amid...
An atmosphere of extraordinary awe and hisorerus filled the home of Grodno Rosh Yeshiva Rav Yitzchok Hacker on Yom Kippur, as the Rosh Yeshiva, who has been in very serious condition, remained at home...
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Beloved Baal Tefillah Rav Avraham Yitzchok Reiner zt”l Passes Away During...
The community of Beitar Illit was plunged into mourning following Yom Kippur with the sudden petirah of Rav Avraham Yitzchok Reiner zt”l, a distinguished member of the Masmidim community, who was...
View ArticleReleased Hostage Rom Braslavski: “Who Are We to Be Angry at the King of the...
Released hostage Rom Braslavski shared a deeply personal message ahead of Yom Kippur, writing about his decision to fast despite receiving a heter from a rav, and describing how his anger toward Hashem...
View ArticleAwe and Tears in Slabodka: Yom Kippur With Rav Dov Landau
Yom Kippur was marked by an atmosphere of extraordinary awe and emotion in the home of the Slabodka Rosh Yeshiva, Hagaon Rav Dov Landau, where the senior Rosh Yeshiva poured out his heart in tefillah...
View ArticlePetirah of Rabbi Yeruchem Septimus z”l
Matzav.com regrets to inform you of the petirah of Rabbi Yeruchem Septimus z”l, a longtime mechanech who devoted many years to chinuch habanos as principal of Bais Kaila High School in Lakewood, NJ....
View ArticleMassive Bids for Maftir Yonah, Tears at Ne’ilah: Yom Kippur 5787 Across the...
Yom Kippur 5787 was marked by packed batei medrash and yeshivos across Eretz Yisroel, emotional tefillos by Gedolei Yisroel and Admorim, extraordinary sums paid for coveted kibbudim, and moving scenes...
View ArticleTERROR: Gunman Opens Fire Outside Ontario Shul During Yom Kippur, Seriously...
A police officer assigned to protect a shul in Belleville, Ontario, was seriously wounded Sunday night when a shotgun-wielding gunman opened fire outside the building as approximately two dozen Jews...
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More Than 70 Yeshiva Bochurim and Yungeleit Spending Yom Kippur in Military...
More than 70 yeshiva bochurim and yungeleit are spending Yom Kippur inside Israel’s Prison 10 military detention facility after refusing to enlist in the IDF, according to an organization assisting...
View ArticleRav Dov Kook Returns Home to Tiveria for Yom Kippur After Months of...
There was tremendous emotion among the talmidim of Rav Dov Kook after he returned to his home in Tiveria ahead of Yom Kippur, following an extended hospitalization and many months of complicated...
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