Daas Torah - Issues of Jewish Identity
Friday, October 9, 2015
Stop the Presses!: Direct confirmation of my conjectures regarding the heter for Tamar Epstein to remarry without a Get
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While I have been very involved in reporting the Tamar Epstein case - the understanding of some of the critical issues concerning the het...
Kiddushei Ta'us (annulment) Rav Moshe' Feinstein's view - by Rabbi Chaim Jachter
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Getora Rav Moshe Feinstein's Extraordinary Ruling Rav Moshe Feinstein (Teshuvot Igrot Moshe, E.H. 1:79) disagrees will all...
Chief Rabbi warns against Open Orthodox speakers at synagogues
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Jewish Chronicle Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has warned United Synagogue rabbis to avoid inviting “inappropriate” speakers in a confide...
International Beis Din for Agunos: Rabbi Krauss' attempted rebutal of critics
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I just received the following letter from Rabbi Gordimer Yasher koach to Rabbi Student for his superb response to Rabbi Kraus...
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Tamar Epstein: Predictions of Mark Oppenheimer of NYT from 2 years ago
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Blog December 20, 2013 NO, TAMAR EPSTEIN DID NOT GET A GET Is Tamar Epstein free? The Modern Orthodox, agunah-minded, and Jewi...
Riverdale Synagogue Appoints Second Woman As Rabba
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Jewish Week Move at HIR seems to renege on Rabbi Avi Weiss’ promise; drives further wedge between centrist and ‘open’ Orthodoxy Whil...
Refuah Shleima needed for Rav Nota Greenblatt
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This sign has been hanging in Lakewood Yeshiva for several day - and was posted on R Yudel Shain's blog R Yudel Shain's blog. Does...
Austria's obscene brand of justice: Holocaust historians condemn Austria jailing of Jewish writer
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BBC Holocaust historians have hit out at the Austrian government after a Jewish writer, who catalogued the state's failure to ret...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Tamar Epstein: Conjecture on how Rabbi Greenblatt decided that Aharon Friedman was not fit to be a husband?
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Tamar Epstein has gotten remarried without a Get - the question is how? I would like to offer some conjecture on the matter since Rabbi G...
Gevald!!! The sounds of silence after Gedolim approve the marriage of an eishes ish.
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Disclaimer : I am willing to publicize any reasoned defense of the rabbonim and couple involved as well as any reasoned condemnation. U...
Chief rabbinate rejection of US conversion ‘casts shadow over American Orthodox institutions’
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JPost A Jewish convert from the US who made aliyah to Israel had her conversion rejected by the Chief Rabbinate’s department for matri...
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Why did Rabbi Nota Greenblatt condemn IBD for relying on a Ritva when he used a "heter" based on unreliable and halachically invalid views of a psychologist?
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IsraelReader raises an important question. Rabbi Greenblatt just was mesader kedushin for a married woman based on a "heter" ...
Judge Dismisses Majority of Vaad’s Claim Against Kehot
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Crown Heights Info A portion of a “seemingly never-ending dispute” in New York Federal Court came to an end when a district judge dism...
Friday, October 2, 2015
Karbanos of Sukkos: Mathematical trick or Torah insight??
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Rabbi Shlomo Pollack The Yalkut ילקוט שמעוני relates to us, how a particular Amora - ר' ברכיה - counted up the cows- The פרי החג ...
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