Interesting exchange over at the Da'as Torah Blog discussing a teshuva of Rav Moshe on the views cited in a sefer on Chumash attributed to Rav Yehuda Hachasid: Dov said... "Your assertion needs to be documented" Prof. Marc Shapiro has written extensively on this topic in several postings on the Sefo...

Rabbi Nattan Slifkin's blog brought an important article in the New York Times to my attention: Excerpted from here: Human behavior has affected human evolution as well. Cattle-herding peoples developed an ability to digest milk as adults through mutations that provided a definite survival advantage...

First, a joke:There are two types of people in this world.Those who like to split everybody into two types of people, and those who don't. I hesitate coming down hard on a new commentor who may have a fragile relationship with Traditional Judaism but I do feel there is a need to put someone here in ...

(Hat-tip to Doron Beckerman) Great post on the Divrei Chaim blog by Chaim B. It's so good, that I'm just going to paste the whole thing here and comment on it in the next post. emunas chachamim and pilpul talmidim A few thoughts on the R' Ahron Shechter video discussing whether it is appropriate to ...

To borrow a metaphor I learned in the blogosphere, I see Reb Gil's valiant attempts on his blog to halt the march of the intellectual Modern Orthodox towards accepting the D.H. into Orthodox Judaism with the feeling of seeing a train-wreck happening in slow-motion. You know we're headed for a tragic...

Excerpts of an article printed in the Hamodia Weekly by Dr.Yitzchok Levine On Sunday, the 18th of Kislev 5769 (December 14, 2008) the Rabbi Dr. Joseph Breuer Foundation with the participation of the descendents of Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch held a Siyum/Dinner to mark the completion of the new Englis...

Continued from previous post. I was recently reminded by Baruch Pelta that there is a vibrant "esoteric school" which claims Maimonides can never be trusted to believe what he says. (Especially when he says something that supports a fundamentalist or even an Orthodox view of Judaism!)So it would see...

Review of the previous posts:The common line of response that I have noticing about the Modern Orthodox from various challenges from academia is one of retreat: You say there are factual mistakes in the Torah about science and history? No Problem! The Torah was not meant to be a "science book" or a ...

What more can I say that hasn't been said already below?Assuming most of these people commenting on his post about James Kugel aren't concern trolls, it seems Rabbi Student has been caught once again in applying a double standard... Here is only a small sample: "Like it or not, just like there are p...

Excellent opinion piece from JPost . Out There: Calendar concerns By HERB KEINON Are we Jews or regular people? The battle over the birthdays is really a battle between our Jewish and universal selves. An excerpt: ACCORDING TO the Jewish literacy Web site SimpleToRemember.com, "Caesar celebrated the...