Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

Cross Currents    By Yitzchok Adlerstein , on December 23rd, 2012   Rabbi Jason Wiener is a young rov who has done an outstanding job...

Haaretz   A confused listener called in this week to a political talk show on the Shas-affiliated radio station Kol Barama. The listener...

NY Times   The patient didn’t overdose on medication. She overdosed on grapefruit juice. The 42-year-old was barely responding when her h...

 I received the following question and thought it would be helpful to post it for reader input - rather than simply give an answer. What ...

Forward    The author claims to have been sodomized by Rabbi Macy Gordon, a former teacher at Yeshiva University High School for Boys, wh...

Live Science    The wriggly beetle larvae known as mealworms could one day dominate supermarket shelves as a more sustainable alternati...

Forward    After the Forward published an investigation into sexual abuse allegations against two former staff members at a high school f...

This is an important guest post by RaP providing a translation of Yiddish letter posted on Daas Torah about Weberman case. Click for...

[See post I &  II]    The starting point for the halacha of a wife who confesses being prohibited to her husband for adultery (or ra...

BHOL  פיתרון לסאגה? בית דין מיוחד שיוקם בקרוב יבדוק את טענות שני הצדדים בפרשת הגר"ח הלפרין - הפרשה שמסעירה את הרחוב היהודי בלונדון....

  Click here for Translation by RaP Explaining abuse and Weberman case

LA Times    A jury has awarded $6.9 million to a 14-year-old boy who was molested by a Los Angeles Unified School District teacher when he ...

BBC    A French court has found a psychiatrist guilty of involuntary homicide over a murder by one of her patients. Daniele Canarelli was g...

  Help Beth and Her Boys - her blog with documents update January 8, 2013 Times of Israel   Beth Schlesinger was at a Vienna play c...