Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Blu Greenberg seeks to overthrow Rabbeinu Tam's views of divorce laws
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JPost [This article is an embarrassment of journalistic ignorance and biased reporting - presenting the feminist view of halacha i.e.,...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
4 Cancer Charities in F.T.C. Fraud Case allegedly spent more than $187 million in donations on personal expenses
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NY Times The Federal Trade Commission and all 50 states on Tuesday accused four cancer charities of being “sham charities,” charging...
Bamidbar - Shavuot 75 - The Positive and Negative of In-group loyalty by Allan Katz
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Guest post by Allan Katz The Book of Numbers begins with God's commandment to take a new census of the Israelites as they were ...
Monday, May 18, 2015
Defying their rabbis, more and more Haredim go online
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Haaretz It was just a few years ago that the rabbis fought the Internet with all their power and the few Haredim who dared to use it d...
Protecting ourselves from the apparent confluence of Modern and Open Orthodoxy
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Rabbi Topolosky of Hebrew Academy Guest post by Joe Orlow I often get asked what can be done to protect ourselves from the apparent...
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Defense lawyer Nat Lewin explains how FBI got seruv for non-existent husband from ORA and Beis Din of America
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Jewish Press [...] There was also substantial evidence from FBI agents about the “sting” that was hatched by the FBI in March 2012. ...
I was in church 48 years ago today - where were you? Reflections of a giyores on Yom Yerushalayim
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Guest Post by Miriam Shear I remember it like it was yesterday although I was only ten years old at the time. For several we...
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Mendel Epstein Torture for Get trial: Details on Chaimowitz beating including apparent involvement of Rabbis Ralbag, Stern, Kalish, and Lebowitz.
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Details on Chaimowitz Beating
Barry Freundel Sentenced to Nearly 6 1/2 Years in Voyeurism Case
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NBC A once-prominent Orthodox rabbi who admitted to secretly videotaping scores of women in a changing room at a Jewish ritual bath wa...
Thursday, May 14, 2015
World Jewish Congress VP Adamovsky guilty of £22m fraud
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Jewish Chronicle A court has found that Andrey Adamovsky, vice president of the World Jewish Congress, defrauded former business partne...
Jerusalem School bus assistant confesses to sexual abuse
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YNET חשד: מלווה הסעות ביצע מעשים מגונים בילדים נהג אוטובוס בירושלים הבחין בחשוד מבצע מעשה מגונה בילד והזעיק משט...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Rav Dovid Eidensohn: Telephone Conference Shiur #7 - Negating a Marriage without a GET Shiur on Wednesday night 9:30 May 13
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Shiur on Wednesday night 9:30 May 13 – Call 605-562-3130 then enter code 411161# 1. HaGaon Reb Moshe Feinstein in EH IV:52 writ...
Behar 75 True Freedom and Autonomy by Allan Katz
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Allan Katz The portion-parasha of Be'har Lev. 25:10 talks about sanctifying the 50th year- the Yovel= Jubilee and proclaiming fre...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
A slave who fulfills the wishes of his master is as beloved as a son?
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update - added page from Artscroll Yerushalmi below I was recently looking at the Kehati Mishna to Berachos (2:7) The last line ...
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