Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

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Times of India    A simple blood test can now identify people most prone to committing suicide. Scientists from Indiana University Scho...

Update: Rav Chaim Kaniefsky & Rav Karelitz protest attacks on Rav Sternbuch Update: Rav Oppman defends Rav Sternbuch's view Up...

JPost    Haredi politicians and media have reacted furiously to deep cuts to stipends received by yeshiva students which are due to take e...

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YNET    The settler whose arrest led to the unusual decision of the police commissioner to freeze all use of Taser stun guns knows it...

While trying to understand the Torah view of rape and sexual abuse, it is important to be aware that these same questions apply in the se...

Times of Israel    In Jerusalem, a city too often divided among religious and nationalist lines, unusual heartwarming encounters do take...

YNet    Border police arrested a 45-year-old kashrut supervisor at the airport earlier this week, on suspicion of child sex offenses comm...

NY Times    The long-awaited decision declaring the New York Police Department ’s use of stop-and-frisk tactics unconstitutional was mos...

NYTimes    Silence does not become Charles J. Hynes . [...] But when he took an endorsement from Councilman David G. Greenfield las...

NY Times      A federal judge this week threw out the conviction of a 66-year-old Long Island man found guilty in 2008 of molesting his ...

New Republic - Science is not the Enemy - Steven Pinker The great thinkers of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment were scientists. ...