Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

‏ בחירתם של האיש והאשה וענין דו פרצופיך אמרו ז"ל (עירוביך י ח : ) בתחילה בבראו אדם וחוה בגוף אחד אלא שהיו לו שני פרצופים, ואח...

AP   The provocative anti-Muslim film implicated in mob protests in Egypt and Libya received logistical help from a man once convicted of ...

NYTimes     The city estimates that metzitzah b’peh is used in some 3,600 local circumcisions each year. The city’s health department says ...

IDSA Letter to Mayor Bloomberg on MBP 091212

Haaretz   The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court has ordered the owners of an Israeli reception hall to pay damages to a lesbian couple after ...

Haaretz    Who says young couples don’t have money to buy apartments? They flooded back into the market in the second quarter of the year, ...

NYTimes    On the surface, the Rev. Shawn Ratigan was just the kind of dynamic new priest that any Roman Catholic bishop would have been hap...

YNet   The judges at Israel's rabbinical courts have seen many divorce cases in their lives, but none of them were prepared for what hap...

This is a continuation of a previous post regarding our Sage's  attitude towards Leah. It is clear that there are two opposing and confl...

NYTimes    KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Roman Catholic bishop was found guilty on Thursday of failing to report suspected child abuse, becoming the...

YNet   A military appeals court in the Kirya base in Tel Aviv ruled this week that the military would compensate two troops in the Netzah...

Haaretz    "What is education today? Education is Torah! And more Torah! Whoever seeks happiness should teach his son Torah." Thi...

Haaretz    The success of a new book aimed at helping ultra-Orthodox parents teach their children how to protect themselves from sexual abu...

.kikarhashabat.co.il/video          kikarhashabat.co.il Rav Nosson Kamenetsky discusses various incidents of Jewish History