Dear Editor,
Matzav.com recently reported on the fact that Lakewood has the fastest rising housing prices in the country.
But please report the truth: The main reason for this price surge in Lakewood is a result of real estate agents trying to create bidding wars in order to raise the price and with it the dollar size of the commission.
This is combined with agents pressuring potential buyers to offer more and enticing people to sell by giving the seller high valuations.
In other words, much of the insane uptick in prices is due to manipulations by the agents.

Dear Editor,
I write this letter as an insider. Not from what I hear from others. But as a bochur experiencing what I write.
I am acting as a whistleblower, exposing what is happening right now to the hundreds of Bocherim who would have been in Eretz Yisroel- to those who do not understand the full extent of the crisis we are in.
You may have been affected terribly by the Corana virus. But if you are like most people, you are probably past the worst of it and moving on with your life.
What exactly does “moving on with your life” mean?
You are slowly getting back to the comfort of day to day living the way it was 4 months ago, and enjoying the normalcy you are used to.

Dear Editor@Matzav.com,
There’s total chaos here in the streets of Yerushalayim. The Israeli police continue to lock down and cordon off chareidi areas without reason, while ignoring what goes on in Tel Aviv and elsewhere.
The fights that break out nightly now are terrible. They’re terrible for the unity of this country and terrible for the chinuch of our children.
The videos below will show you all you need to know.
And yet, there’s no one stepping up to speak out in defense of the residents.

By Marc J. Sicklick, M.D.
It’s been several weeks of changing times and attitudes. What has happened to COVID-19 during that time? What is my personal take on the current situation and what do I think will happen?
What gives me cause for optimism at the present time?
Some reports that infected patients not only made antibodies, but also had evidence of a cell mediated response. What this means in English is that we can think of the immune system as having 2 basic arms. Antibodies come out of one of the arms. The other arm has both killer function toward viruses and also has regulatory effects on antibody production. Both arms seem to have an immune response to COVID-19. This is good.

By Ezra Friedlander
We are living in difficult times.  There’s been much consternation within our community, and rightfully so, about the apparent double standard currently being leveled at us.  We endured the challenges of lockdowns and sheltering in place, but now as the restrictions are being lifted, our playgrounds, our schools and our businesses are still closed.  Most recently, our sleep-away camps are prohibited from opening.
We can point fingers and beat our chests, our blood pressure can boil in frustration, but here’s the bottom line.   For those who are frustrated and don’t understand why our community is not being heard, I have a simple solution.  Start voting.

Dear Editor,
As we all know, during these months of ‘lockdown’ when the Chadorim and schools have been closed there have been major changes in all our lives. At first, Mothers worried how on earth they would manage, how would they cope with their household tasks and responsibilities with a houseful of children around 24 hours a day?

Dear Editor,
Why is there deafening silence on the school tuition issue? Like tuition doesn’t end after playgroup? Only playgroups deserve a discussion about whether they should be paid? What about parents who are paying thousands each month for school tuition?
At the very least, schools should acknowledge that it’s a legitimate question.
In a perfect world, these steps should have taken:
1. Very early on in Covid-19, every school should have sent a communication to the parent body, acknowledging that’s it’s a question that they are working to resolve fairly. Almost no schools mentioned it to their parents. How unfair.

By Rabbi Yechiel Rhine

It is hard to believe that only two short months ago, before corona hit, my dining room was just that, a room where our family dined. A clear, unused table that we dressed up lekavod Shabbos sat in the center of the room. Two curios and a buffet balanced out the rest of the space. Though empty all week, when Shabbos arrived, it all came to life.

By Rabbi Yehoshua Katzman
Over the past few weeks, we have heard people saying to avoid doing certain things so as not to make a chillul Hashem. We have been told to refrain from even doing things that normally would be considered a mitzvah, such as tefilah b’tzibbur and tefilah b’bais haknesses.
Even in cases where there is no risk of infection and no legal issues, such as davening outdoors, people are saying that we must keep the minyan to ten men at maximum in order to avoid chillul Hashem. Being that the mitzvah of kiddush Hashem and the aveirah of chillul Hashem were found in this past week’s Parshah, I would like to elaborate a bit about the true meaning of these mitzvos.