Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

Guest Post: Recipients and Publicity comment to " Messiainic Jews encourage Messianic Ethiopian immi ... ": Let's analyse the...

JPost reports: ( from Jersey Girl) Under Operation Tikva, through which thousands of people in Ethiopia are provided with clean water, money...

NYTimes reports: To find the 10th man for a minyan, the quorum required in Orthodox Jewish services, some rabbis on the Lower East Side of M...

Yoma (86a): As it was taught: And you shall love the L‑rd your G‑d (Devarim 6:5). That means that the Name of Heaven should be beloved beca...

Melamed LeHo’il(2:83): If a Jewish woman marries a non‑Jew then according to halacha her children are complete Jews. Nevertheless the childr...

Smithsonian Magazine: [referred by Jersey Girl] One september day in 2001, Teresa Castellano, Lisa Mullineaux, Jeffrey Shaw and Lisen Axell...

Chabad of the West Side: The outgoing year of 5768 is a Sabbatical or “Seventh” year. It is also known as the Shemitah year – the year of ...

(IsraelNN.com) The Palestinian Authority, run by PLO Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas, is again making efforts to popularize Muslim denial of the ...

Fox News reports: A quest is under way on four continents to find the missing pages of one of the world's most important holy texts, the...

הכתב והקבלה (ויקרא ה:ה): והתודה. פירשוהו לשון הודאה, כענין הודה לו בקנקנים המורגל בפי רבותינו (בעקעננען), ואין זה נכון לדעתי כי עיקר הודו...

Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz (Sichos Musar #33 5731): Everyone is required to thoroughly examine his deeds especially before Rosh HaShanna - the Da...

NYTimes: GREED — and its crafty sibling, speculation — are the designated culprits for the financial crisis. But another, much admired, habi...

JPost reported: Euro-Asian Jewish Congress President Alexander Machkevich said Wednesday he has resolved a prickly land dispute over the rep...

JPost: Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz has called on the High Court of Justice to accept a petition by a Danish-born convert to Judaism deman...