Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

Boston Herald   A Philadelphia rabbi accused of preying on young boys in the 1970s — assaulting them in the hospital and in sleepovers at h...

 I have seen the court records which the following was excerpted  ========================= Another Guest Post When Tamar abducted the c...

YNet   According to the police, more than 30 suspects have been arrested as part of the investigation, headed by the National Fraud Unit, an...

NYTimes In certain Orthodox Jewish communities, from Borough Park to Monsey, N.Y., rabbis say, there is a strong aversion to chopping down ...

Ynet    Jewish law states unequivocally that a Cohen cannot marry a divorced woman, but there are exceptions. The Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court ...

I just received the following letter with an attachment which I am publishing here. Guest Post : I have been following your blog for quite ...

There is a bizarre debate going on in Mishpacha magazine regarding one of their columnists who is a strong advocate of alternative medicines...

NY Times   The story of what happened next — how the codex came to Israel and where the missing pages might have gone — is a murky and ofte...

The biological mother in a lesbian relationships decides to repent and leaves her partner to whom she is legally married to in Vermont. The ...

Time Magazine   Polygamy is one of the few practices that still evoke genuine disgust in people. It’s a watchword for ignorance, sexual depr...

The basic question is whether pilegesh represents an alternative form of marriage based on equality rather than subordination - which has mi...

NYDaily News   A convicted child molester who got off with a measly two-year sentence from a Brooklyn judge was slapped with federal charges...

JPost    The traditional way that hassidic men wear their coat is with the right side closed over the left side. This is because the right s...

YNet Tens of thousands of haredim are focused on studying the Torah in order to defend Israel, which is why they are exempt from military s...