Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

Time Magazine    In a study published in Biological Psychiatry , Martin Walter and his colleagues  found  that the hypothalamic regions of ...

NYTimes by Maureen Dowd    In February 2001, McQueary was home one night watching the movie “Rudy,” about a runty football player who achi...

YNET   After four years behind bars, a Beit Shemesh resident known as " Taliban mom " was released from prison on Sunday. The...

  NYTimes    The technology to freeze a woman’s delicate eggs to be used later, when the eggs being released by her ovaries may no longer b...

YNet   A 41-year-old high-tech executive has been charged with a line of serious sexual offences involving minors on Sunday. A 44-page i...

kikarhashabat פרשת המחלוקת בבטאון יתד נאמן ממשיכה להסעיר את הציבור החרדי: שעה קלה לפני כניסת השבת הגיע הרב שמואל אריה לוין, מרבני ארגנטינ...

ABC News     A Northern California jury has awarded $28 million in damages to a woman who said the Jehovah's Witnesses allowed an adult...

Kiddushin( 31b): R. Jacob b. Abbahu asked Abaye: ‘I, for instance, for whom my father pours out a cup [of wine] and my mother mixes it on ...

Last year the Lakewood Scoop   reported that the shul of Rav Cohen in Lakewood displayed an American Flag on the front of the shul to honor ...

The new appeal ad for Yosef Kolko contains two changes from the previous appeal ad - 1) A citation from the Rambam and 2) the use of Rav Si...

NYTimes    While the first criminal trial of a Roman Catholic church official accused of covering up child sexual abuse has drawn national a...

The reign of bullying by the Hebrew Yated Ne'eman comes to an end as Rav Steinman took control by having R' Shimmy Glick buy the new...

kikarhashabat אהרל'ה יקטר, איש הועד למניעת חילול קברים ויריבם המר של אנשי אתרא קדישא, הואשם השבוע בחילול שבת לאחר שהתראיין לתחקיר ששו...