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Shuki Friedman
July 16, 2018, 2:31 pm
Shuki Friedman
Is it time to do away with Tisha B’Av?
Israel has evolved into an economic and military superpower; what must we mourn?
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
June 28, 2018, 12:10 pm
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The scandal of the Ethiopians and the wine
The Orthodox Judaism I fell in love with at the age of 16 has become distorted beyond recognition
Rabbi Yehoshua Barda (right) after winning the Halacha World Cup contest (YouTube screenshot)
June 27, 2018, 4:59 am
Paris principal wins Europe’s first quiz tournament on Jewish religious law
Rabbi Yehoshua Barda collects a cash prize of about $7,000 in defeating six other rabbis for the title
By JTA
Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, addresses attendees at the former site of the JL Hudson Co. department store, December 14, 2017, in Detroit, Michigan. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
June 12, 2018, 2:59 am
Jewish-owned Quicken Loans now kosher for Orthodox borrowers
US lender adopts halachic technicality so it can issue lines of credit to those concerned about usury
By JTA
Anat Hoffman
June 4, 2018, 3:29 pm
Anat Hoffman
Saying goodbye with dignity — in Scarsdale, NY
Laying Rabbi Aaron Panken to rest was sad and comforting; it also drove home what’s missing at Israeli funerals
Jonathan Muskat
May 31, 2018, 3:20 pm
Jonathan Muskat
The Torah forbids using guns for fun
What do Jewish texts and rabbinic authorities have to say about gun control? Quite a lot
Peter Buchsbaum
May 25, 2018, 3:08 pm
Peter Buchsbaum
Marriage is a basic right, ’til the rabbis pull rank
A new bill aims to extend the reach of Israel’s Rabbinate, the very body creating the problems the law is supposed to fix
Ari Kahn
May 18, 2018, 2:27 pm
Ari Kahn
Learning Torah with Joe Lieberman
The former US senator is spreading the word on Shavuot, celebrating one of the greatest paradigm shifts in history
Francis Nataf
May 18, 2018, 1:57 pm
Francis Nataf
Ruth didn’t have to convert to ‘Orthodox Judaism’
If you really understand Jewish law, you know that legal categories do not address every case in the same way
Chamutal Shoval
March 21, 2018, 1:55 pm
Chamutal Shoval
The Rabbinate won’t let me take its exams
By not letting us female students of Shabbat, kashrut, and more establish our expertise, the rabbis quash the Torah
The building of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel in Jerusalem. (Flash90)
March 16, 2018, 5:21 am
Outcry after Chief Rabbinate bars women from exam on Jewish laws
Orthodox women threaten lawsuit after request to take test on family purity rejected for no apparent reason; activist calls move ‘illegal’
By JTA
Deborah Klapper
March 13, 2018, 1:30 pm
Deborah Klapper
When Yeshiva College gags women it is my business
Blocking a female student from teaching Torah because men might hear her affects the whole Modern Orthodox world
Bill Slott
March 11, 2018, 2:36 pm
Bill Slott
Are Karaites more Jewish than Jews?
If Moses arrived in a time machine, he’d surely recognize more Karaite practices than rabbinic ones
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
March 9, 2018, 1:24 pm
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Who still sees the wonder of Judaism?
Religion is the art of knowing what to do with amazement and how to protect it from complacency
Shammai Engelmayer
February 23, 2018, 11:49 am
Shammai Engelmayer
Should synagogue-goers be armed?
Jewish law requires that we protect ourselves; to do so responsibly means strict and effective weapons-training
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