Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

JPost    Former Ashkenazi chief rabbi Yona Metzger was arrested by authorities early Monday morning on charges of taking a bribe, fraud,...

AZ has requested that I publish his guest post asking why I don't follow the lead of the gedlim who signed the Kol Koreh advocating s...

Times of Israel   Update see below [...] Dodelson’s public fight for a religious divorce has changed her, especially in terms of how s...

Guest Post: By Kat Shel Beryonim My question is not who is right but how can the Gedolim agree for her to go to the New York Post and i...

SI Live   A social media and phone campaign to bar an estranged husband from the Yeshiva of Staten Island is the latest gambit in an inc...

Kikar Hashabbat תושבי בני ברק בחרדה בעקבות ריבוי המקרים הקשים של תקיפה אכזרית של ילדים. בהוראת הרבנים, ארגון "השומרים" מפרסם אז...

Jewish Chronicle   A police investigation into alleged sex abuse of women by prominent Golders Green rabbi, Chaim Halpern, has been drop...

Update See Solution below Everyone acknowledges that the battle between Gital and Avraham Meir has gone on far too long and is now se...

The following is a post written by one the participants to the discussion as an articulate and sensitive supporter of the Dodelson side. ...

Guest Post R’ Eidensohn  I apologize for having added to your pile of e-mail, but I am in a somewhat unique position in a...

NY Times    The idea came to Jorge Odón as he slept. Somehow, he said, his unconscious made the leap from a YouTube video he had just see...

Times of Israel    Gital Dodelson is quite likely America’s most famous agunah . In recent weeks, the 25-year-old Orthodox law student h...

I am being flooded by hundreds of emails and comments dealing with the Weiss -Dodelson case. While there clearly are halachic issues that...

update: Guest post: YD Rosenberg Translation added November 13, 2013   “Therefore, [t] he [y] called its name Bavel, for there ...