Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

Meshech Chochma(Shemos 19:17): And they camped under the mountain – this teaches us that the mountain was held over their head to force the...

JPost reports: Preschool teachers Sami and Leah Tubias confessed and were convicted of abuse on Sunday in the Jerusalem District Court as pa...

Recipients and Publicity - see " Attention Please! New challenger to the establishe... ": for additional comments Rabbi Avi Weis...

CNN reports: Darrin Sanford, 30, was one of several homeless people living near the field in an abandoned home slated for demolition, police...

Wall Street Journal reports U.S. President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner received failing grades for their efforts to...

NYTimes reports Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish officials in New York are mounting an intense lobbying effort to block a bill before the ...

I have been having an exchange with Shlomo M [on this post] who asserts that gedolim are not aware that the majority view is that Chazal ma...

Ynet: The Jerusalem District Court found Avraham Katz (40) an ultra-Orthodox man from the Meah Shearim neighborhood in the capital guilty of...

YNet: Two years after petitioning court to allow them to adopt child they have been fostering since 1995, Prof. Uzi Even and Dr. Amit Kama c...

Rav Tzadok(Tzedkas HaTzadik 43): There are times when a person is presented with such a great test that it is impossible that he should not...

Fox News reports: Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, ...

Wall Street Journal reports: by Tawfik Hamid (a former member of an Egyptian Islamist terroristgroup, is an Islamic reformer and senior fell...

Haaretz Four times the police brought M. from Be'er Sheva to court to extend his remand. The suspicion was grave: rape of a 7-year-old g...