Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

Thursday, October 23, 2008

IDF - Brainwashing or Jewish Education?

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Haaretz reports: The Chief Military Rabbinate has recently expanded its educational activities in IDF combat units, and in doing so has ente...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Matchmaking & formerly religious singles

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YNet reports: Following the varying initiatives to solve the singles problem amongst young religious-Zionists, there is a demand for matchma...
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Obama - Orthodox vs - non-Orthodox split

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JPost reports: Orthodox Jews - a category that encompasses Modern Orthodox and haredi respondents, Cohen said - were the likeliest to suppor...

Obama - Conservative critique

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The blog HotAir presents: Who are we: Allow us to put our cards on the table at the outset: We are two young conservative journalists—both i...
Monday, October 20, 2008

Secular hatred of religious Jews

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YNet reports: A 10-year-old new immigrant from France was forced to leave the soccer team for which he was registered since according to him...
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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Airport - Don't do favors for chareidim!

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Hasidic leader Rabbi Simcha Ashlag will return this weekend to the partial detention he and his personal assistant received in February, in ...
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Hispanic Christians as Jews in Israel?

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Orlando Sentinel reported: [sent by Jersey Girl] Growing up in the Dominican Republic, Wendy Canelones wondered about the custom of her gran...

Cohen II - marrying a baalas teshuva

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Just received this email. I am posting it to remind/inform people of the problems that exist. This is obviously a problem for a major posek ...
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Friday, October 17, 2008

Kabbala is beyond understanding?

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mekubal 's comment to " Agada & Kabbala - learning things beyond comprehen... ": With all due respect to the great Tzad...
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Marriage - Halachic Difficulties for a posek

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mekubal's comment to " Problem - Cohen wants to marry Giyorus ": All other possibilities aside, Shadchanim are not Rabbis, le...
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Anusim II - Demand recognition and acceptance

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While I obviously don't agree with the following comment, but at least it clearly expresses what the issue is. Are the Anusim - not Jews...
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Infertility - Jewish egg market

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Haaretz reports A small but growing number of Jewish Israeli women are traveling to the United States to donate their eggs to infertile Jewi...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

Succos - Women banned from celebrations

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Bartley Kulp asked : Can somebody please explain to me the point of all of this? At first I thought that it was just Meah Shearim, but now...
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Why How Matters - Thomas Friedman

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New York Times: I have a friend who regularly reminds me that if you jump off the top of an 80-story building, for 79 stories you can actual...
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