Dear Editor@Matzav.com,
Since your website is an integral part of so many Torah homes today, I feel it is an appropriate place to raise this issue.
Boruch Hashem, I have many children residing in a thriving Jewish town, most in developments where tens of young, frum couples just like them live side by side in rows of townhouses or even single homes. This may seem idyllic in some ways, and indeed it is. There is a built-in beautiful frum atmosphere. There are great neighbors and friends for the kids.

Dear Editor,
Boruch Hashem, the population of Orthodox Jewry is growing rapidly. A quick demographic look at Jewish schools shows that the first-grade class is much larger than the eighth-grade class. Many schools have only one or two eighth-grade classes, but have three or four first-grade classes. Similarly, the ninth-grade classes are larger than the twelfth-grade classes.

Dear Editor,
I’ve been reading a lot about the fact that there’s an effort to “bring back” young couples to Flatbush, with millions of dollars being spent to do so. And I wonder why there is so much excitement over this.
These young couples are being brought back from Lakewood, NJ, where their children were growing up in a suburban community, to the city, which is a concrete jungle where children should not play outside if it can be helped.

Dear Editor,
I read a comment on Matzav that really triggered me. It said that “The main tachlis of a woman is to be a mashgiach over husband. That is her tafkid.”
The person when on to say, perhaps sarcastically, that the wife’s job is “to constantly badger him regarding his davening, learning, child rearing, kibbud av, flower buying, shmiras eynayim, finishing Shas with all Rishonim, shuckeling in shul like the rov, no relaxing on the couch at the end of a day, etc. It’s the wife’s job to change her husband and turn him into a Rabi Akiva Eiger. That is the only way to have true shalom bayis.”

Dear Editor@Matzav.com,
There is an issue that I would like to bring to the attention of the tzibbur.
A few months ago, I attended a simcha where I had an uneasy feeling about the level of kashrus. With just a few inquiries at the event, I was made aware about how ignorant we, the consumer, are. I am no expert in the kashrus field, but something just didn’t sit right with me.

Dear Rabeim, Morahs, Teachers, Paras, and others who help in our children’s chinuch,
Based the amount of good you do you are extremely underpaid. No debate and no question about it. A caring, hard-working, dedicated Rebbe helps lay the foundation for a lifetime of being a frum person, a mentsch, a ben Torah, a baal midos, and those traits continue to be passed down and shared with the student’s peers too. I personally find it impossible to adequately express the hakoras hatov we have to several extraordinary educators our children have been fortunate to have.

Dear Editor@Matzav.com,
It’s time we say enough!
I am a teacher with many years experience, boruch Hashem. I have seen much success in the field. I enjoy giving over our mesorah and am passionate about reaching every talmidah. With a heavy heart and a big sigh, I am about to hand in my resignation form to my school.

Dear Editor@Matzav.com,
Thank you for the time and effort you put into publishing your excellenty news site.
I am writing about silencing cell phones.
There are times besides for davening and a shiur when a cell phone should be on vibrate or off and when it should be left for the voicemail to answer. When one is on a shidduch date, one’s cell phone should be off and full attention should be given to the other party.

LISTEN:

https://matzav.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AUDIO-2021-11-24-15-10-42.mp3

Dear Editor,
Perhaps you’ve seen the video. May you’re lucky enough to have not.
The clip shows a dog being walked down to a chupah at a wedding, ostensibly held last night, with a song – a non-Jewish one – with the lyrics “Who let the dogs out?” playing in the background as the hound made its way down the aisle.
Have we no limits anymore? Does everything go these days? Are we not embarrassed?
We hopefully have kashrus supervision (do we?) at our weddings, simchos, and events. Do we supervise anything else? Do we care about what we represent? Do we care about what goes on at our most sacred times?