Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

New York Times The Congressional Budget Office estimates that an astonishing half or more of the incre...

New York Times Tough-looking ambulance drivers in this central Gazan city are drawing images of their fears with...

There has been a rather strange debate about the meaning of חלב זכר which simply means milk from a male. It has been asserted that at least...

Newsweek As 56 million children return to the nation’s 133,000 elementary and secondary schools, the promise of “re...

Avnei Milium (Introduction): … Our Sages say that whoever is greater his yetzer is greater. That is because there is no comparis...

New York Times There is a story about Bertrand Russell giving a public lecture somewhere or other, defen...

YNET A poll conducted by Ynet and the Yesodot Center for Torah and Democracy reveals that 58% of haredim and the re...

The Age MOST Australians would turn a blind eye if confronted with clear signs that a child was being physically or...

New York Times A PERSON could know South Korea for a long time without knowing Wanju, an obscure county 112...

the claim that I am mistranslating קירוב בשר is very interesting but is obviously mistaken. the language of Rambam and Shulchan Aruch is tha...

New York Times hat tip Ben Torah A troubled young man from this remote stretch of eastern Missouri, Chester Mast h...