A story was recently reported claiming that a handful of the 50 rabbonim who recently signed a statement regarding the special election today in New York State had withdrawn support from David Storobin. This report, we are told, is inaccurate and mis…

Assemblyman Dov Hikind and others are battling in Albany to provide transportation after 5 p.m. for children attending yeshivos in grades kindergarten through sixth. The goal is subsidized door-to-door transportation for children to ensure their safet…

As first reported here on Matzav.com, Rav Chaim Pinchos Scheinberg, senior rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Ore in Yerushalayim and rov of Kiryat Mattersdorf, is in critical condition. All are asked to say Tehillim for Rav Scheinberg, who has been hospita…

French rabbis today called for a “Jewish response” to the murders of a rabbi and three children in Toulouse, and called for justice and for building more schools, shuls and other Jewish institutions.
“This act of barbarity and murder…

The unidentified gunman who shot dead a rabbi and three children outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, southwestern France, may have filmed the massacre, the country’s interior minister said Tuesday.
Claude Gueant confirmed reports that witnesses…

President Barack Obama’s longtime pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has announced his support for the anti-Semitic “March to Jerusalem” at the end of March. The White House has refused comment.
The “March to Jerusalem” is a m…

While Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu focuses on the Iranian nuclear threat, Israel’s home front is suffering from tremendous neglect. Israeli officials claim that if in fact Israel strikes in Iran, some 1.7 million Israelis will be left exposed, …

Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that the raid that killed Osama bin Laden was the most “audacious plan” of the past 500 years. Biden’s comments, made at a Democratic fundraiser in Morris Township, NJ, ranked the May 2011 assault…

While all are asked to continue saying Tehillim for Rav Yisroel Belsky, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and one of the senior poskim of our dor, who remains hospitalized, we have received positive news regarding the rosh yeshiva. Rav Belsky was mo…

An Illinois congressional candidate running as a Republican in the upcoming primary has said that the “Holocaust never happened.”
Sixty-four year-old Arthur Jones is an insurance salesman who organizes family-friendly neo-Nazi events to co…

New York City Councilman Lew Fidler is running to replace Carl Kruger in the 27th Senate District (Flatbush, Borough Park, Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach, Mill Basin and Sheepshead Bay), where many Orthodox Jews reside. The special election is betwee…

We share the following for the yahrtzeit today of Harav Chaim Brim z”tl, known gaon and tzaddik from Yerushalayim and rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Mishkan Yosef:
Harav Chaim Brim was once invited to speak at an event. The speaker who preceded …

Sarah Schenirer, mother of the Bais Yaakov movement (1888-1935)
Rav Eliezer Lippa, the son of Rav Elimelech of Lizhensk (1813).
Rav Avraham Chaim Brim of Yerushalayim (2002)
Rav Smuel Tzvi Lichtenstein (1929-2009). Born on the Lower East Side of Manhat…

The deadly shooting outside a Jewish school in France has prompted police to increase security in New York City.
The NYPD stepped up its presence at centers of Jewish worship and learning in the city.
“We obviously have to be concerned about wha…

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that the same gunman who shot dead a teacher and three children at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday was also responsible for the killing of three soldiers last week, apparently motivated by racism.
“We …

It is with tremendous sadness that we report the tragic petirah of habochur Avrohom Tzvi Galinsky, an 18-year-old talmid of Yeshiva Kol Torah. He was a son of Rav Elimelech Galinsky, R”M at Yeshiva Lemaan Daas, and a grandson of the senior maggi…

A NY Post Editorial:
There’s a special election tomorrow in south Brooklyn – Sheepshead Bay, Brighton Beach, Gravesend, Mill Basin – to choose a successor to ex-state Sen. Carl Kruger, the latest to march in Albany’s long line of convicted…

Updated: After 73 Occupy Wall Street protesters were arrested over the weekend, Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended the way police handled the protests at Zuccotti Park Saturday night and quipped when asked why barricades were put back up.
“The bar…

Reposted: A group of gedolei Torah and rabbonim have signed a letter obtained by Matzav.com stating that it is forbidden to vote or campaign for New York City Councilman Lew Fidler, who is running for Carl Kruger’s seat in the 27th State Senate D…

Rabbi Yonatan Sandler z”l, who was killed today in the shooting in Toulouse, France, was born in Paris and spent his life learning Torah, teaching Torah and working in Jewish community outreach.
Rabbi Sandler was the father of two sons, Aryeh, a…

[Videos and photos below.] The two largest yeshivos in the world joined together yesterday in a unique manifestation of kavod haTorah as Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ – the largest makom Torah in chutz la’aretz – hosted a hascholas kesivas …

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu responded to a shooting incident outside of a French Jewish school on Monday, calling the attack “a loathsome murder of Jews, which included small children.”
Speaking at a Likud faction meeting, Ne…