Tag: halakha

Through efforts of Yad La’isha Legal Aid Center, court imposes rare housing sanctions on recalcitrant husband.

The pages come from the 1492 edition of Arba'ah Turim, one of the most important works of Halakha.

Religious women sometimes felt uncomfortable approaching rabbis, opting to either ask the question through a male messenger or not ask the question at all.

"It is proper for the Rabbi of the Kotel to respect all Jews from all streams."

The Tzohar hotline will be staffed by trained rabbis and social workers 24 hours a day, six days a week.

At least two major poskim have permitted outright the burial of gentiles and Jews together in a case when they were found killed together.

Gov. Murphy told reporters that he plans to “vigorously fight” the restraining order, which remains in effect until the next scheduled court date, on Oct. 23.

MK Smotrich dropped a brick in the puddle with this one, and the resulting shpritz will prove tough to clean up.

"Therefore, in principle, it can be said that if a legislation has been enacted that denies an abortion in any situation, at any stage of gestation, it is not the accepted halachic practice regarding abortion."

This was the first time the Rabbinical Court in Israel was required to deal with the halakhic status—for the purpose of being eligible for a rabbinical marriage—of Jews who believe in Jesus.

'The bill is intended to authorize the rabbinical courts to levy these limits on get refusers sitting in prison, in order to persuade them to release their wives from the chains of their Aguna status.'

Rabbi Riskin tried to put a leash on this cat and take it on a walkie when he told Ha'aretz he would accept Reform conversions should the Reform agree to the requirements of "immersion in the mikveh, circumcision, and basic knowledge and practice of Judaism."

Now it appears that the Supreme Court is prepared to bring down the last vestige of halakhic Judaism regarding conversion

"I'm sure that if Maimonides, or Rabbi Yosef Karo lived today, they would say: We never wrote our codifications for a time when the State of Israel would be established."