Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity
Sunday, March 4, 2012
The liberal dilemma: Will boycotting hummus bring world peace?
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NYTimes Collectivism, of course, makes a fetish of process. That is probably the most benign way to interpret what has recently been goin...
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50 year feud betwen Belz & Satmar finally ends
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Haaretz On February 21, the Supreme Court struck down the so-called Tal Law, under which ultra-Orthodox men studying at yeshivas were gra...
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Baby allegedly dies from metzitza - major discussion & sources
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Gothamist A two-week old infant died last fall in a Brooklyn hospital from herpes contracted from a religious circumcision. According to t...
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Shlomo Pappenheim silenced after being beaten
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kikarhashabat לפני שבועיים ימים, בליל שבת, נזרק שמואל חיים פפנהיים מבית המדרש של חסידות 'תולדות אהרון' בבית שמש, הבוקר, הוא מפרסם...
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Before Games, Religious Questions
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NYTimes The private-schools association, known by the acronym Tapps, was established in the 1970s to coordinate sports among Christian sc...
Daas Torah 2nd edition - Hebrew Sources available
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I just published a separate volume for the Hebrew sources found in the 2nd edition of Daas Torah It is available now from my Amazon estore ...
Israeli court issues unprecedented enslavement conviction
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YNet The Jerusalem District Court issued an unprecedented ruling this week, convicting a couple for the Shufat neighborhood of the enslav...
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Jews take issue with posthumous baptisms by Mormons
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NYTimes Although the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints promised in 1995 to stop including Holocaust victims in its ritual, the ...
Haredi divorcées form unique support group
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ynet A unique support group intended to assist recently divorced Haredi women has begun operating in Jerusalem. The support group is des...
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Reality of increasing divorce rate for Chareidim
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YNET Seven years ago I stood in front of a local bakery's counter in Bnei Brak, and requested the following be written on a cake: &qu...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Texas Athletic Ass. forced to accomodate Shabbos observant players
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NYTimes A Texas high school athletics association said Thursday that, under legal pressure, it would change the time of a boys basketball...
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Teacher Sex Abuse: Why Repeat Offenders Are So Common
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Time Magazine Parents don’t want to further traumatize young victims, but handling things "discreetly" merely displaces the probl...
The unraveling of Deborah Feldman's fable "Unorthodox"
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NY Daily News The problem is that much of her memoir may not be true, according to ardent critics. These include family members, neighbor...
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Rav Yaakov Emden: Sexual Relations - Siddur
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Rav Yaakov Emden
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