Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

 Guest post by Allan Katz   Parashat – Portion of Tetzaveh is a continuation of God's commandment to Moses concerning the taber...

Haaretz    Kabbalist rabbi, convicted in 2015 of bribing senior police officer, showed up to prison an previously established deadline c...

Arutz Sheva Rabbi Arie Folger was elected Chief Rabbi of Vienna this week, with the Blessings of Leading Rabbis and Sages of Israel ...

Guest Post Hello R' Eidensohn, First of all, thank you for your continuing coverage of the Epstein situation. Your thorough co...

The Guardian A Jewish historian and outspoken critic of Austria’s approach to returning property looted by the Nazis is being kept...

Guest post by Rabbi Shlomo Pollak The courtyard of the Mishkon was to be surrounded by "Kelayim"- curtains.....  The T...

RaP this is an interesting analysis - but it is utlimately a whitewashing of a very odios subject. I would replace the word "ange...

Dr. Marc Shapiro recently published criticism of Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer regarding this writings against Open Orthodoxy. Seforim Blog I ...

I was told by a number of reliable sources that Rav Dovid Feinstein is meeting today with Rav Hillel David and Rav Senderovic (a ta...

Guest post I think the interview should have been introduced that it is an old article, of which much may be relevant, but that ther...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Rabbi Leib Landesman is the rosh beit din of the Kollel Horabonim Beit Din, in Monsey, NY. His beit din has presided o...

Seforim Blog   [...]  Let me make one final point. In matters of divorce my feeling is that when either husband or wife wants a  get , ...

The heter has no halachic significance at this point.  Rav Greenblatt does not create reality by his psak. If he paskened that the dead wer...

Guest post by Jonathan Fishman Some modern Jews, seek loopholes within what they perceive as the extensive restrictions of Halachah, an...