Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

I received the following comment which apparently was taken from another blog. There are two basic approaches in dealing with this question ...

Arutz Sheva reported: (excerpt) (IsraelNN.com) Close to 200 terrorists, including two who had murdered Jews, were freed Monday in another &q...

Bartley Kulp recommended ynetnews . Rabbis: Light rail train 'a disaster for Judaism' Ultra-Orthodox Rabbinical Transportation Commi...

Jerusalem Post reported: A mishmeret tzniut , roughly translated as "modesty squad," is a vigilante body, usually with some form o...

Aug. 24, 2008 JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST Israel Police turned to the public on Sunday, for help in finding Rose, a four-year-old g...

Haaretz reported: Israel's leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis are waging a new offensive against Jews visiting Jerusalem's Temple Mount. ...

New York Times reported: An immigration raid at the nation’s largest kosher meatpacking plant has opened a wide rift among Jewish leaders o...

JPost published excerpt The aftershock from last week's publication of the Treasury's 2009 budget proposal is still reverberating th...

Anonymous insists that the Chareidi community has an obligation to the Bnei Menashe. Why? As described we have a group of people living in I...

YNET reports: [ See also VIN regarding Bedatz involvement ] Meah Shearim residents agitated following wave of arrests of 'modesty guard&...

Sacha Bogomilsky's comment to " EJFamily - Solving intermarriage through conversio... ": "For one thing many documents we...

Anonymous comment to " Conversion - Bnei Menashe from India in limbo ": Anonymous 8/21/08's description of the area where th...

YNET wrote the following excerpt The rabbi's army Chabad summer camp includes money collection, love of God; 'the object is to send ...

There are two separate prohibitions mentioned in Yevamos (24b) regarding the marriage of someone who has been living with a non-Jewish woma...