Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity

Friday, March 11, 2016

A Tribute to Rav Shlomo Elyashiv, Author of Leshem Shevo v-Achloma: On his Ninetieth Yahrzeit

Seforim Blog by Joey Rosenfeld R. Shlomo Elyashiv (1841-1926) known as the Leshem after his vast body-of-work Leshem Shevo v-Achlo...

Child abuse? Blocking contact with a child's kidnapper - the only mother she has known 18 years?

AP A woman in South Africa has been found guilty of kidnapping a newborn nearly two decades ago from a hospital and raising the girl a...

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Pekudei; Not All "Baddim" Are Created Equal by Rabbi Shlomo Pollak

Guest post by Rabbi Shlomo Pollak Over and over again, we find a difference between the Baddim that were made to carry the Aron and the M...

Child Abuse: A case illustrating the difficulties of reporting - what would you have done?

Guest post regarding actual events. Some of the details have been changed to protect privacy. The Situation A male teacher is...

Mendel Epstein Torture for Get Gang - voluntary surrender extension

Case 3:14-cr-00287-FLW Document 433 Filed 03/08/16 Page 1 of 2 PagelD: 8491 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY Cr. ...

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Child Abuse Allegations Plague the Hasidic Community

Update : Added Interview with Newsweek editor Update: Comment by anonymous frum insider There are as many irritants in the artic...

A mother claims her husband has abused their daughter- but has no proof

Reshet TV מה עושה אישה חרדית שמגלה שבעלה תוקף מינית את בנותיה, כשבקהילה הסגורה שלה לא נהוג לפנות למשטרה? הרבנים בשכונה הירושלמית סו...

Sunday, March 6, 2016

Dutch Jewish teacher arrested in Tel Aviv on Amsterdam sex charges

ynet Teacher from ultra-Orthodox school left the Netherlands for Israel after 16-year-old students tells parents teacher sexually assa...

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Shabbos; When Is Burning In Gehenom, Good?! by Rabbi Shlomo Pollak

Guest Post The famous Dyybuk- in the times of the Chofetz Chaim- said, she was not protected from her trauma even on Shabbos, because ...

Vayakhel 76 - The Copper Mirrors and Photos of your Children by Allan Katz

Guest Post Allan Katz Which task was more difficult - the creation of the world or the building of the mishkan –tabernacle? The Talm...

Trial of Ezra Sheinberg - former rosh yeshiva - starts in Tzfas

Haaretz The trial of Rabbi Ezra Sheinberg, the former head of the Orot Ha'ari Yeshiva in Safed, charged with perpetrating sex crim...

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Kiddushei Ta'us: Rav Moshe Feinstein is not the only source

The recurrent claims that Rav Moshe Feinstein was the only posek who invalidated a marriage based on the concept of kiddushei ta'us ...

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

R Yitzchok Frankfurter The hatred of Jews towards their fellow Jews on the Internet is comparable to the hatred of the Holocaust

update: Commentary added The following is an excerpt from an editorial in Ami Magazine November 11, 2015 praising the Lubavitcher R...

And Now Brought To You By Feminist Rabbis: Jewish MGTOWs

And Now Brought To You By Feminist Rabbis: Jewish MGTOWs By Akiva Wasserstein As an avid reader of the Daas Torah and Torah-Halacha b...

View web version

Powered by Blogger.