Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

I have been spending a lot of time trying to understanding the distinction between halacha and middos.  Dr. Benny Brown's article  h...

YNET    Only one in eight sex crime cases made it to court in 2013, according to a report from the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in ...

The Guardian    Dementia is widely acknowledged to be one of the most pressing problems facing health and social care systems. A report pu...

NY Times     by Jed Rubenfeld is a professor of criminal law at Yale Law School OUR strategy for dealing with rape on college campuses...

Jerusalem Post     The High Court of Justice issued a court order demanding that a private rabbinical court in the ultra-Orthodox city of...

Scientific American     A hotly anticipated press conference was held by National Geographic magazine in Washington DC on 15 October 1...

NY Times    An electrical device glued to the scalp can slow cancer growth and prolong survival in people with the deadliest type of bra...

F.B.I. Press release Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the As...

Grant Wiggins   The following account comes from a veteran HS teacher who just became a Coach in her building. Because her experience is s...

Arutz 7     Moshe German, 47, who survived a lynching attempt on the Taibe bridge Sunday night, met the man who saved him from the mob o...

Rotter Forum Comments on Shtieble report these rumors as untrue. People claim Rabbi Zilberstein denying any such court decision.  לי...

Editor's note: Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg has been named a 2014 Top 10 CNN Hero. Voting for CNN Hero of the Year continues through Sunda...

Washington Post   [....]    About 2000, divisions at Kesher over the rabbi’s behavior became more severe. Some complaints were fairly m...

NY Times     A federal investigation into Princeton University ’s sexual misconduct and discrimination policies has found that the univer...