Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

The following excerpt is taken from Justice Elon's Mishpat Ivri (volume IV pages 1761-1762). It asserts an interesting rationale why ...

Times of Israel     Most of Israel’s female medical personnel have been sexually harassed at one point or other during their career, a stud...

Just received this Lakewood pamphlet. I do not know who wrote it but it is now circulating Lakewood. It is good to see that there are th...

NY Post     The brave Orthodox Jewish teen whose testimony helped convict the prominent Brooklyn counselor who had sexually abused he...

Verdict Justia     After many months, and many media stories about child sex abuse at the Yeshiva University High School (“YUHS”) in The ...

Asbury Park Press     The lawyer representing a former yeshiva camp counselor in a Lakewood sexual abuse case wants to have his client’s...

In a recent discussion with Rav Nosson Kaminetsky, he showed me a very important observation of the Rambam that is relevant to many of...

NY Times   [...] That means that while most Israelis began celebrating Rosh Hashana at sundown on Wednesday, Karaite Jews are not set to...

Some of the comments dealing with marriage and divorce indicate that it is really primitive and disgusting that a person simply can't...

In the previous post about pitzu'im (divorce settlement) it was asserted or implied by various commentators that the kesuba was in...

Kikar Shabbat המלחמה באייפונים: בחודש האחרון מופצים ברחבי השכונות בריכוזים החרדיים שלטים כנגד השימוש ב"אייפון ודומיו". תחת ...

Update 9/3/13 Purpose of kesuba is not financial security In the various discussions about divorce - it has been repeatedly said that a...

L.A. Times    More jail inmates in Los Angeles County are being set free after serving only a fraction of their sentences because of bud...

LA Times    After four years of marriage, Tamar Tessler filed for divorce, taking her infant daughter and embarking on what she hoped woul...