Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

Pele Yoetz (Daughter): I have seen a terrible custom in some places that when a daughter is born that the people make a lot of jokes and ri...

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Toldos Yitzchok (Bereishis 2:21) : And G‑d caused man to become unconscious [when He made Eve] – This unconscious state [associated with t...

Seforim Blog - footnote 8    There is another theory as to why the sectarian hasidic world in particular has had so many cases of coverin...

Haaretz    Over the next few weeks, the Israel Defense Forces will send out draft notices to some 15,000 Haredi youths aged 17-19, requirin...

YNet    The global Jewish population reached 13.75 million in the past year, with an increase of 88,000 people, a study by Hebrew Universit...

The following is my hasty unauthorized translation. Don't rely on it alone for practical halacha. ב' מרחשון תשנ"ט I was a...

JPost   Rivka Pinto, the wife of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto, one of Israel's most influential rabbis, attempted suicide by taking an overd...

NYTimes    ALIA RAMER, a mother of three from Maplewood, N.J., first noticed the problem when her daughter was just reaching adolescence, t...

YNet   בכירי הרבנים החרדים מחריפים את מאבקם בסמארטפונים, ולאחרונה אף החלו בהטלת סנקציות אישיות על משתמשיהם כדי לבדל אותם מתוך המחנה - אבל...

חתם סופר (פרשת וילך ושבת שובה ): שובה ישראל עד ה' אלקים וגו' ובמדרש [ב"ר פ"ד), אמר הקב"ה לראובן אתה פתחת בתשובה ת...

Arab News I decided to write this article after I saw photos and reports about a starving child in Yemen, a burned ancient Aleppo sou...

Haaretz   The influential rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto and his wife were arrested and investigated on Thursday. They were charged with attemptin...

Hebrew Books    Nitei Gavriel (Chapter 50 Yichud page 325): Avos (1:5) says, “A man should not have excessive idle conversation (sicha) w...