Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Age of sex education
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Novominsker Rebbe once said to me "this was about 40 years ago after he gave a gemora shiur I asked him about sex education. Noting ...
Daas Torah om Marriage
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I just republished my sefer on Marriage. I was told the previous title was not politically correct and some found it inappropriate to have...
Tucker Carlson: Ben Shapiro, other pro-Israel voices don't care about America
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https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-780172 + Tucker Carlson, the populist pundit who led Fox News’s evening lineup until h...
Saturday, December 30, 2023
Freed hostage Mia Schem: ‘I experienced hell. There are no innocent civilians in Gaza’
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https://www.timesofisrael.com/freed-hostage-mia-schem-i-experienced-hell-everyone-in-gaza-is-a-terrorist/ “It’s important to me to reveal ...
Friday, December 29, 2023
Eilu V'Eilu by Rabbi Hershel Schachter
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https://www.torahweb.org/torah/2017/parsha/rsch_shoftim.html The Talmud, as well as later rabbinical literature, is replete with halachic ...
Standardization of the Chareidi mind
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I was reading about Sinclair Lewis and his concern with conformity in middle America. I realized the same dynamic applies to the Chareidi w...
A Call for Hamas to Surrender by Rabbi Shalom C. Spira
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. The Gemara, Eruvin 45a, establishes that the Sabbath must be desecrated in order to defend the borders of a Jewish state fro...
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Democratic Rep. Torres: 'Antisemitic to compare Israelis to Romans who murdered Jesus'
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https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/382618 Critics blasted New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for a Christmas message comparing Je...
State of Orthodoxy in America? - A sample of one
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I was sitting on a bench in the local shopping center yesterday when I was approached by a young man who obviously wanted someone to talk wi...
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Eyewitness was blind: Chicago man freed after twelve years in prison for murder
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https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/382542 Darien Harris, a resident of Chicago, spent more than twelve years of a 76-year sentence in...
Red Cross refused to give medicine to Gaza hostages, Netanyahu tells families
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https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-779463 An International Committee of the Red Cross representative refused to bring a box of li...
Monday, December 25, 2023
Harvard president’s corrections do not address her clearest instances of plagiarism, including as a student in the 1990s
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https://edition.cnn.com/2023/12/20/business/harvard-president-claudine-gay-plagiarism/index.html Jonathan Bailey, a plagiarism expert who ...
Sickened by the Chilul Hashem?
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https://cross-currents.com/2009/07/07/sickened-by-the-chilul-hashem/ Here’s an idea to consider. Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz has written urging ...
Hishstadlus What is it?
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Having spent many hours on the texts regarding parnossa. I have been amazed at the lack of clarity regarding hishstadlus. It is rarely men...
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