Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

Times of Israel   Retiring British Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks has launched a blistering attack on ultra-Orthodox Judaism, which “s...

NY Times    In an article under his byline for Sports Illustrated in December 1960, “The Soft American,” President-elect John F. Kenne...

Cross-Currents    The situation in Israel resembles a playing field upon which multiple teams descend at the same time, each one playing...

Times of Israel     Rabbi Shmuel Pappenheim of the haredi Orthodox organization Eda Haharedit shares little common ground with Reform R...

NYTimes    Jesse Friedman, the Great Neck, N.Y., teenager whose role in a sexual abuse case a quarter-century ago was portrayed in the ...

5tjt   Thankfully, we live in a community that is blessed with people who perform remarkable, remarkable acts of Chessed.  The efforts of ...

5tjt.   A lthough the Three Weeks and the other two fasts are a period of mourning and introspection, Zechariah the Navi tells us (Zechari...

Prof Mark Stein ( Torah u-Madda Journal 9  (2000) page 46 ) In the talmudic tradition, action takes precedence over theory (at least in t...

Zomet Institute   "Take all of the leaders of the people and hang them before G-d, in front of the sun" [Bamidbar 25:4]. The ...

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Australian Age    A senior Australian rabbi who failed to stop an alleged paedophile from sexually abusing boys at a Sydney Jewish school...

Tablet Magazine    There’s an oft-repeated story of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding prime minister, paying a visit in the 1940s to A...