Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

YNET   Superbus transportation company will pay NIS 13,000 (some $3,200) in compensations to Ariella Marsden, a 15-year-old high school st...

Dear Rabbi, I like to read your blog and I also use your sefer Das Torah. I would like to ask you a few questions that bother me. They a...

Pischei Teshuva (Even Ha-Ezer 1:19): U ntil the end of the 5 th millennium (1240) -  these are the words of the Maharik who cites Rashba t...

NYTimes There is an enduring belief among some New York political aficionados that Hasidic Jews vote in a bloc. Capture the support of a ch...

Rabbi Daniel Travis   During the time of the Rishonim, a group of prominent Ashkenazic rabbis decreed that Birkas Kohanim should be recited ...

See full discussion in Otzer haPoskim volume I from Hebrew Books pages 21 -94 Shulchan Aruch (E.H. 1:9): A man is allowed to marry a numb...

Who will comfort us now? by Toby Katz

Rav Sternbuch (4:209): In Kiddushin (31b) it mentions that R’ Yaakov’s father and mother both poured him a drink. The gemora concludes that...

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Wall Street Journal              Dor Yeshorim Web site Rabbi Josef Ekstein, who had four children die of Tay-Sachs disease, a fatal neurod...

Rav Gestetner to Rav Miller

False ma'us ali claims against the husband