The Unknown Amora
A talmid chochom came to Rav Chaim Kanievsky with a manuscript of a sefer that exhaustively traces the generations of the Amoroim, Sevoroim and Geonim according to the various opinions of the Rishonim....
View ArticleRabbi Ari Wolf to Deliver Invocation at RNC
Rabbi Ari Wolf, police chaplain in Cleveland, Ohio, has been selected to deliver an invocation at the opening of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland this week, Matzav.com has learned. The...
View ArticlePhotos: Fire Damages Shaitel Business in Monsey Home
Firefighters battled a working structure fire at a residential house on Calvert Drive in Monsey, NY, this morning. The structure, a three-story, six-family unit, houses a successful shaitel business. A...
View ArticleWatch: Cleveland’s Rabbi Ari Wolf Delivers the Invocation Today at the 2016...
This afternoon, at about 1:05 p.m., as the Republican National Convention kicked off in Cleveland, the invocation was delivered by Rabbi Ari Wolf. Rabbi Wolf, a noted askan and humble communal servant,...
View ArticleRav Chaim On Accepting Baalei Teshuvah into Yeshivos
Rav Shmuel Boruch Genut, who is close to Rav Chaim Kanievsky, reported in the Israeli Yated Ne’eman that Rav Chaim was recently asked by the director of a cheder in Elad whether he should accept a...
View ArticlePhotos: Rabbinic Delegation to Canada on Mission to Help French Immigrants to...
A delegation of rabbonim headed to Toronto today to raise funds for the many French Jews who have immigrated to Israel in recent years so that they will receive a proper education within the Charedi...
View ArticlePhotos: Yeshivas Mir-Yerushalayim Annual Lakewood Dinner
Wednesday night, Yeshivas Mir-Yerushalayim held its annual Lakewood dinner at N’eemas Hachaim Hall in Lakewood, NJ. The guests of honor were Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bauman. Rabbi Moshe Wehl received the...
View ArticleBMG Increases Kollel Checks for Yungeleit
In a new initiative, Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ, has, for the second year in a row, raised the bi-weekly kollel check received by its kollel members, Hefker Velt reports. The increase is part...
View ArticleEvent in British Parliament Launches UK Committee for Har Hazeisim
On a day when the UK was preoccupied with the change of its national leadership, an extraordinary event took place on July 14th in the House of Commons to officially launch the United Kingdom Committee...
View ArticlePhotos: Pouring Cement for Boros of a New Mikvah in Forest Hills, NY
The mikvah is being built by Mikvah USA. The pouring of the boros was conducted under the supervision of Rav Yizchok Trieger. PHOTOS BY JDN: {Matzav.com}
View ArticleShiva Asar B’Tammuz Program Of Inspiration, Sunday, July 24th, Streaming Live...
Torah Connections, a Flatbush-based group will offer a series of four chizuk lectures to the public on the fast day of Shiva Asar B’Tammuz, this coming Sunday, July 24th at the Yeshiva of Brooklyn...
View ArticleMISAMEACH 72K IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS, TO HELP BRING HAPPINESS TO ILL CHILDREN...
-Communicated- DONATE HERE. Misameach is an organization dedicated to bringing happiness to very ill children and young adults, through live bedside entertainment in hospitals and houses including...
View ArticleVideo, Photos: Rav Yitzchok Grodzensky Marks Yahrtzeit at Ohr Elchonon
On the occasion of the 75th yahrtzeit of the murder of Hagaon Rav Elchanan Wasserman Hy”d by the Nazis in Lithuania, Rav Moshe Mordechai Chodosh, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Ohr Elchanan, invited Rav...
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