Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

NY Times    The wedding was a modest affair, held in a reception hall overlooking an artificial lake tucked behind a suburban strip. Bu...

Scientific American    People born with Down syndrome have always been considered to be incurably developmentally delayed—until now. In th...

Help Beth writes Over the past 3 years, the inboxes of the leaders of the Viennese Jewish community have been flooded with emails ...

Rabbi Simcha Friedman (Emunat Hakhmim in Tradition 27:4): ... I model myself upon what I have learned from R. Moshe   Sofer in a respons...

Wikipedia . The phrase "emperor's new clothes" has become an idiom about logical fallacies . [28] The story may be explai...

Scientific American    Religion provides a sense of meaning and comfort for believers, and studies show that such beliefs intensify during...

update: Rabbi Hoffman's rebuttal of Rabbi Slifkin's comments update Rabbi Slifkin sent me this rebuttal Five Towns Jewish Tim...

This is documentation that Dr. Schlesinger refuses to let the Chief Rabbi hand over the twins to their mother for free. He insists that...

A number of Dr. Schlesinger's supporters have denied that he has canceled Beth's visits with her children and have demanded doc...

 Guest Post by Beth Schlesinger This Purim, like last year, I will not be spending with my children. My Sunday visit is cancell...

Time      This week marks the 40 th anniversary of an event close to the hearts of gender activists everywhere. On March 11, 1974, ABC ...

Scientific American      The book, Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn , is the story of my 17-year journey with my father to figure out the ...

I thought the following description of the process of turning a manuscript into a book would be helpful to motivate some of you want to p...