Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

Tiferes Shlomo (Beshalach): The foundation of emunas chachomim is to believe in the words of the righteous of the generation (which are per...

Shalom, Rav Eidensohn, A rabbinic colleague here in Israel, Rabbi Ohad Fixler, sent me the following information about the purported "...

Dear Readers:   With the Yomim Noraim upon us and the Yom Tov of Succos shortly thereafter, we would like to remind all parents to make ...

R' Menashe Kalata wrote: Rabbi Eidensohn, Rabbi Student has already updated his article ( http://torahmusings.com/2011/ 09/in-def...

Hirhurim - Rabbi Gil Student The Kosher Switch saga continues. KosherSwitch Technologies, Inc. (“KSTI”), the maker of this clever device (...

  Kosher Switch [...] Clearly the poskim gave written statements.  The vicious attacks by bloggers and others have caused some poskim to ...

 Reuters An explosion of new technologies and treatments for cancer coupled with a rapid rise in cases of the disease worldwide mean canc...

NYTimes A handful of advocates, armed with nothing more than their keyboards, have put many of the country’s largest retailers, including ...

Sefas Emes (Vayikra Pesach): And they believed in G‑d and His servant Moshe –It is known from seforim that by means of faith in the sages...

Crownheights.info The Shpoler Zayde, traveling in a sled, safely crossed the Ros River on his way to the Bris. However, upon his return, t...

In apparent response to my posting that Rav Sternbuch had not given a verbal haskoma to Kosher Switch - their false claim to the contrary ha...

Rav Moshe Sternbuch told me that when dealing with child abuse - that if a rav tells you not to go to the police when it is obvious that one...

Time Magazine That's a video of the process up top. A test subject is undergoing an MRI while watching random video clips from Holly...