Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

.kikarhashabat.co.il/video          kikarhashabat.co.il Rav Nosson Kamenetsky discusses various incidents of Jewish History

One of the real problems when  dealing with trauma such as child abuse or rape or war - is the assumption that there is a universal scientif...

Magen Avraham (O.C. 46:9):... The Bach asks why we don’t say a beracha “that G‑d has made me a Jew” [rather than the negative version that H...

Haaretz    This week, as children returned to school, another public servant, Deputy Education Minister Rabbi Menachem Eliezer Moses, was q...

NYTimes    A prominent Roman Catholic spiritual leader who has spent decades counseling wayward priests for the archdiocese provoked shock a...

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  This is material that I am trying to understand for my latest sefer on the Torah understanding of gender and sexuality. The point is that...

YNet   A new decree signed by top Israeli rabbis this week prohibits devout men from wearing tight pants. "Every Jewish man is mandat...

I would like to take up your offer to post my rejoinder [to your post about Mary Murphy]. You have my full permission to post it, in its e...

Haaretz   The army will be sending first draft notices to some 7,500 ultra-Orthodox men in early September. The notices will ask 17- and 1...

A subtitle might be -  cleanliness and vaccines increase autoimmune disorders NYTimes    So here’s the short of it: At least a subset of au...

Jewish Press based on this bhol   Hebrew article A Haredi IDF soldier was chased out of the Toldos Avraham Yitzchak shul on Monday morning...

cbs The nation's most influential pediatricians group says the health benefits of circumcision in newborn boys outweigh any risks and in...