Matzav Inbox: The Seminary Insanity, and Why Rabbi Perlstein Proves We’re...
Dear Matzav Inbox, Thanks for providing this forum and for recently addressing various financial issues affecting the frum community. I’ve just finished sending my daughter to seminary in Eretz...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: Kosher Dairy Products – The Squeeze on Consumers
Dear Matzav Inbox, I’m wondering why there is such a disparity between cholov Yisroel and cholov stam products. Friendship’s OU-D sour cream is $2.49 for a 16 oz pint, while cholov Yisroel sour cream,...
View ArticleOpinion: A Call for Rabbinic Intervention and Community Action Addressing the...
By Duvi Honig, Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce Thirty plus years ago, a smaller Jewish community could understand and bear the additional costs associated with producing Cholov Yisroel dairy...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: Years Ago, We Had Failed Messiah. Today, We Have ‘Unzere’ On...
Dear Matzav Inbox, I’m writing to follow up on a Matzav letter that appeared earlier this week. Not so long ago, there was a notorious website known as Failed Messiah. For years, it thrived on a diet...
View ArticleIn The Zone
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz We have all heard of Oorah and are familiar with its jingles, loveable mascot Fiveish, and annual Chinese auction. We have seen its ads and know that Oorah has something to...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: A Level-Headed Solution to the Seminary Expense
Dear Matzav Inbox, Please allow me to introduce a level-headed solution regarding the expense and pressure of sending our daughters to seminary in Eretz Yisroel versus attending a local seminary. Much...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: Bikur Cholim Makes Me Proud to Be a Yid!
Dear Matzav Inbox, I have to share something that really touched me. I spent Shabbos at Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune, NJ, with a sick relative, and I gotta tell you, Bikur Cholim of Lakewood...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: The Outrageous Extortion of Camp Tips: Enough is Enough
Dear Matzav Inbox, I am writing with a sense of outrage about the tipping practices that have become an untenable burden for parents sending their children to camp. I’ve just forked over nearly $400...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: Did You Know That Supporting Yidden is a Mitzvah D’oraysa?
Dear Matzav Inbox, There’s been a lot of hock lately about overpricing in the frum community and how frum families are often being taken for a ride. I’m not here to argue—I agree. I’m the biggest...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: I Earn $300,000…and I’m Just Not Making It
Dear Matzav Inbox, I’ve read the discussions on Matzav.com about prices, overpaying, and trying to save a few dollars here and there. But I have a different problem, and I need to speak from the heart...
View ArticleLike Parent, Like Child
By Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber There were mixed emotions in the Rec Hall as Camp Romimu showed the end of summer banquet video to their hundreds of happy campers. The summer has been a smashing success both...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: The School Supplies Crush
Dear Matzav Inbox, As summer draws to a close and the new school year approaches, there is a familiar dread that creeps into the hearts of many parents—the overwhelming burden of purchasing school...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: To Those Who Went Away for the Summer, Don’t Come Home
Dear Matzav Inbox, To all my friends and neighbors who escaped to the Catskills or wherever your fancy took you this summer, I have one simple message: Stay there. Don’t rush back with your glowing...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: To My Friends and Neighbors, Welcome Home!
Dear Matzav Inbox, To all my friends and neighbors who had the opportunity to escape to the mountains or wherever you were lucky enough to vacation: Welcome back home! Though you would have loved to...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: It’s Your Son’s Madrich. It’s Not Too Late to Tip Me!
To All the Choshuve Readers at Matzav, L’maan ha’emes, I just had to sit down and write this letter, hoping you’ll take it to heart. I had the zechus to be your son’s madrich this summer, and let me...
View ArticleChallenging Students Resemble Us
By Rabbi Moshe Dov Heber The busy weeks of preparation before school have come to an end as we begin the new school year. It’s the first day of school, and from my vantage point, in front of the bais...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: Our Chinuch System is Losing Too Many Precious Kids
Dear Matzav Inbox, As the school year approaches, families everywhere are busy readying their children for a new academic journey. Backpacks are being packed, uniforms are being pressed, and there’s a...
View ArticleWords and Elul
By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz Yerushalayim is the city of hidden tzaddikim, who spend their days and nights plumbing the depths of Torah and tefillah with total humility and anonymity. One such person is...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: Where Is Our Collective Tzaar?
Dear Matzav Inbox, I write this with great trepidation, as I am not one who is capable of sizing up an entire klal, yet this tzarah has been nagging at me for a while now, and I must speak out. We have...
View ArticleMatzav Inbox: My Letter to Sarah Schneirer – School Trauma
Dear Sarah Schneirer, I can’t believe I’m doing this, but I need your help. Sarah, I need you to look at me. I was a frum chassidishe girl who grew up in the system. I did everything right. I put my...
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