Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

Guest Post   A Freilichen Chanukah to all visitors to this site, who come to hear what Da'as Torah has to say on various issues,  ...

Dear Rabbi Rosenbaum, You have greeted me with a smile despite my opposition to your treatment of Aharon Friedman. Sometimes we...

 Guest post The most important right Jews have in the United States is the free exercise of religion provided by the First Amendment....

I had a discussion today with Dr. Baruch Shulem - one of the leading psychologists in Israel - about the use of forensic reports made by ...

Guest post by a concerned Jew and American The Epstein-Wolmark cirminal gang argued, in a brief written by Nathan Lewin, that the rel...

Guest post by RaP Recently there has been some discussion on this blog about the nature of modern-day Litvish ("Lithuanian type&...

Guest post by Ploni First, a definition: Quid pro quo ("something for something" in Latin) means an exchange of goods...

Guest post by Rabbi Shloime Pollak The Ram"a in 682;1 tells us, if we forget to say "Al Hanissim", we should say it i...

 I was just informed that Rav Shmuel Kaminetsky was recently disinvited from a rabbinic conference in England where he was to be the gues...

Aseh L'cha Rav. I have, and have had, many great Rabbonim as teachers. My Rabbi growing up was Rabbi Arthur Bogner, z"l a M...

I was recently informed that this topic is of particularly great concern to the young people in the yeshivos and seminaries. Much of what...

One of the puzzling questions in the present scandal is why this mess has not been resolved either by 1) simply presenting the obvious fa...