Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

update NY Times    (Reuters) - Two Brooklyn brothers have admitted participating in a violent ring with rabbis that threatened Jewish...

Huffington Post    The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Society of Pediatrics state infants aged 0-2 years should not have...

NY Times   [...] Five years ago, Mr. Kellner, a 52-year-old Hasidic Jew, chose to step off a cultural cliff. He spoke out about the ...

NY Times    Early in the 19th century, two unmarried women who ran a school for girls in Edinburgh found themselves accused by a stud...

anonymous Guest Post       update NY Times Unfortunately the ostrich syndrome has taken hold of the Klall and everyone has their he...

Five Towns Jewish Times     THE MITZVAH Mordechai and his Beis Din enacted that on the day of Purim each person must send a gift o...

   Rav Shlomo Miller, and the Dodelson Divorce  

The recent video from the Atzeres which used the song of the text from Berachos (28b) to contrast the Torah scholar and the yoshvei kar...

NY Times    In a case that riveted the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn, a judge on Friday dismissed all charges against...

While this is an amazing article about autism - the processes he describes sound very similar to Torah learning - constant review of mate...