Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

One of the important questions is response to verbal abuse. Should one fight back verbally or physically? Should he ignore the insults? A r...

Regarding R' Tropper's rationale for what he is doing - please refer to my post from last January in which I translated an interivew...

I have just rejected a number of comments because they were anonymous. Make sure you pick a name and don't use the default setting of an...

Globes - Laura Goldman writes: When the first news of Bernard Madoff’s arrest hit me, I experienced a cacophony of emotions. For sure, I was...

The following is an except of a letter that Rav Efrati wrote regarding Rav Eliashiv's views regarding kiruv where part of the audie...

Jewish Week [referred by RaP] A national medical expert charged this week that the head of the leading organization screening for Jewish ge...

שולחן ערוך חושן משפט סימן רכח סעיף ד אם היו יסורין באים עליו, לא יאמר לו כדרך שאמרו חביריו לאיוב: הלא יראתך כסלתך זכר נא מי הוא נקי אבד (איו...

Rabbi Tropper is on the rabbinic advisory board of KosherTube KosherTube is the official website of the Electronic Torah Educational Founda...

Haaretz reports: A teacher who molested a student for two and a half years, starting when the boy was 5, will perform six months of communit...

AP reports: [see also CNN] WASHINGTON – It's something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where's the mone...

Forward reports: Referred by Michael Elkohen [...] “I’ve been through all these different phases in Chabad. Chabad has been a bit of a...

The following is the video of the actual Milgram Study done in the 1960's. The Milgram Experiment - Obedience 1/5 CNN reports: If s...

JPost reports: In the wake of what police believe to be a $50 billion Ponzi scheme engineered by Wall Street insider Bernard Madoff, a flood...