Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

Tzedek    Plan to provide my thoughts on the subject next week See previous post Rabbi Chaim Rapoport writes: I have stated my ...

NY Times    Among the scores of memories that Tiffany Lucas collected during her years as a Marine gunnery sergeant, she wears most of t...

NY Times    In the small but cohesive Mormon community where he grew up, Hans Mattsson was a solid believer and a pillar of the church. ...

Update 7 21 2013: Rav Ovadia Yosef says only politicians were meant   There have been a lot of hystical comments (click link) regardin...

  Update: July 21 2013 Rabbi Rapoport explains his views The following represents a very difficult case from the point of halacha. On ...

Times of Israel    Originally reported in the Morning Cal  A counselor at a Jewish summer camp for boys in Pennsylvania was taken into...

Updated I am raising an important question. Can a person, such as Mondrowitz or Lanner, who have abused numerous people over a long peri...

A Concerned Lakewood Parent writes: Enablers and supporters of molesters, after the fact, try to go on as if nothi...

Jewish Week    The last two years have been a living hell for Alexander, a British woman who came to Austria in 2006 to be the doctor’s ...

Update Matzav : Rav Edelstein said that he is shocked that a chareidi soldier was attacked in Meah Shearim and that those who committed...

Update: Prof. Samuel Feiner (New Perspectives on the Haskala) Secularization only reached its   peak in the nineteenth and twentieth cen...

Forward    Six more former students have come forward with accusations against Yeshiva University, days after 19 former high school ...

Brooklyn, New York - July 10, 2013 - Today, members of several large abuse advocacy organizations announced that they would be joining ...

YNET      This item shows that the most disgusting examples of abuse can be perceived by the perpetrator as being wanted by the victim. ...