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Behind the BRS Communal Policy Regarding Vaccinations
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Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, None of the Above? What Judaism Really Says About Abortion
Bribery and Cutting Lines: Using Protectzia to Get in and Get Ahead
Survey of Shas Sugyas: Berya
Halachos of Going on a Cruise
Women’s Zimun: Radical New Practice or Ancient Custom?
Women and Torah Study: Obligations and Opportunities
Transfer of Power or Transformation of Prayer? The Wisdom of Changing our Prayers to Reflect Our Opinion of the President
Please Rise… Should We Stand for the Ten Commandments?
Hold Your Fire: When and How to Correct the Ba’al Koreh
Building a House of Love and Prayer: Should We Include Sinners in the Synagogue?
Between Angels and Mere Mortals: May One Be Critical of Our Avot?
Halachic Considerations In Wills and Estates Planning
Girl or Boy? Now You Can Choose, But Should You?
Bar/Bat Mitzvah
1492- 2014: Expulsion and Invitation- Should Jews Accept Spanish Citizenship?
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Drafting Yeshiva Students
Showering and Smoking on Yom Tov
The Three Weeks and Tisha B’Av: Halacha and Hashkafa
Gotcha Covered: Yarmulka in History and Halacha
Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Rainbows in Jewish Thought & Jewish Law
Mitzvah #613: Are We Each Obligated to Write a Sefer Torah?
Myth or Fact: A Jew May Not Report Another Jew to the Secular Authorities
Is Judaism One Religion or Many? Lo Sisgodedu and Its Contemporary Applications
Hunting For Sport: A Case Study in Halacha & Halachik Values
Honoring In Laws
Intersection of Kabbalah and Halacha
Can You and I Both be Right When We Fundamentally Disagree? Eilu V’Eilu in Halacha and Hashkafa
Boxing: The Torah’s Perspective
Birchas Ha’Ilanos: The Blessing on the Trees
Government: To Be Lauded or Avoided? Making a Beracha Upon Meeting the President
Women’s Obligation to Learn Torah
Unsolved Mysteries: Where are the Luchos Hidden Today?
Washing Before Kiddush
Why Not Uganda? Why Must the State of Israel be in the Land of Israel?
Man and Woman He Created Them: Transgender in Halacha and Hashkafa
100th Anniversary of the Titanic: A Halachic Analysis
Will the Real Cohanim Please Stand Up! The Use of DNA in Proving Cohanic Descent
Put Butter on Your Bread, Don’t Put Buddha on Your Head: Why is Everyone Wigging Out?
The Shabbos Goy: Fact or Fiction?
The Permissibility of America’s War on the Taliban
It’s Not Easy Raising Parents These Days! The Mitzvah of Kibud Av V’aim
The Laws of Tzedakah and Maaser
The Best of Doctors are Destined for Gehinnom: Torah and the Practice of Medicine
The Art of the Shiva Call
Thanksgiving Leftovers: Was Turkey Kosher in the First Place?
Talmudic Science: Fact or Opinion?
Standing For Torah Reading
Spare the Rod or Flip the Switch? Has the Jewish View of Spanking Changed Over Time?
Sheim on You! Erasing and Throwing Out God’s Name
Separation Anxiety: The Chevra Kadisha’s Role in Comforting the Soul as it Exits the Body
Scooting Along in my Gramma-Mobile: An Analysis of the Shabbos Scooter
God Doesn’t Get Mad, He Gets Even: A Torah View of Revenge
Going to Pot: A Jewish Perspective on Marijuana
Will You… and You… and You… Marry Me? Polygamy in History and Halacha
Please Rise: Should We Stand for the Ten Commandments?
Nittel Nacht: Jewish Observance of X-Mas Eve
Murderous Tiger: Should Animals be Accountable for Their Actions?
Moshiach: Does He Come, or Do We Bring Him? Judaism vs. Christianity
Between Angels and Mere Mortals: May One Be Critical of Our Avot?
Making the Cut: The Current Bris Controversy
Looting to Live, Stealing to Survive: The Heinze Dilemma
Kiruv Quandaries: Halachic Dilemmas in Outreach
Kiddush on Scotch & Whiskey?
Cremation, Mausoleum & Metal Caskets: What are the Rules of Jewish Burial and Why?
Contemporary Kabbalat Ha’Torah: The Process of Halachik Decision Making
Keeping Kosher with a Housekeeper
Just Give a Little Tzedakah
2008 Years Since What? Judaism and the New Year
Myth or Fact: Jews with Tattoos Cannot Be Buried in a Jewish Cemetery
The Jewish View of Christianity: Is It Idolatry?
Internet Commerce & Shabbos/Yom Tov
Infidelity for Intelligence: Going Behind Enemy Lines
Hold Your Fire: When and How to Correct the Ba’al Koreh
Hard Facts about Hard Liquor: Is it Kosher and Is it Yosher?
Was Hadar Goldin Killed by the IDF on Purpose? What is the Hannibal Directive and is it Ethical?
Halachic Considerations in Wills and Estates Planning
Good Shabbos Mother Earth: A Three Part Series on Shemitta (Sabbatical Year)- Part 3
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Girl or Boy: Now You Can Choose, But Should You?
You’ve Got to Know When to Hold ‘Em, Know When to Fold ‘Em: The Flop, The Turm & The River- Gambling in Jewish Law
End of Life Decisions: Quality of Life vs. Quantity of Life- Which is Preferred?
Electric Shavers
The Dilemma of Dual Identity: Military Service in a Non-Jewish Army
Don’t Push it Off: Living Life with Alacrity and Zeal
Declining Female Happiness
Geography, Liturgy and Custom: Taking Our Lead from Iraq
Copyright & Halacha: May I Download Music, Burn CD’s, Copy Tapes and Copy Texts?
Who is a Jew? Conversion in Contemporary Times
The Conservative View of Homosexuality
Coca Cola’s Secret Formula
The Jewish View of Christianity
Chesed… Just Do It!
Bikkur Cholim: Restoring Life to the Patient and the Visitor
Big Brother is Watching You: The Use of Surveillance Cameras on Shabbat
Ayin Harah: Silly Superstition or Force to be Reckoned With?
DON’T Walk Like an Egyptian: Judaism and Astrology
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Aliyah Against Parental Objection
Reflections on 40 Years Since Roe v. Wade: A Jewish Perspective On Abortion
A Look Behind the Mechitza: A Study of Its Origin and Evolution
A Hard Cell… Stem Cell Research: A Halachic Analysis
Taking a Knee for the Anthem and Protesting the Flag: A Torah Perspective
Are We the Chosen People or the Choosing People? Do We Believe in Jewish Exceptionalism
Nip & Tuck: Cosmetic Surgery and Body Piercing in Halacha
Gambling in Jewish Law