Tag: Jewish Law

Rabbi Tendler was the posek for the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists and served as its president.

Proving that intermarriage really is a slippery slope: among married Jews who say they have one Jewish parent, 82% have a non-Jewish spouse.

He urged Israeli leaders to "do what is right according to Jewish Law... History has proved that negotiations with a government training its citizens to kill all Jews is useless."

Since the identity of the father is unknown, it could have imposed severe restrictions on whom the woman would be allowed to marry.

"It would have been great if this issue had been resolved amicably between the sides rather than by the court."

At the same time, there is a creeping acceptance of intermarriages within the Conservative movement.

"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."

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked accused the Israeli courts of ignoring Jewish law and promised to set up a steering committee to promote implementing the principles of Jewish law in the Israeli legal system.

A federal court on Wednesday will hear arguments that the conditions prevent him from working and force him to violate Jewish law.

Her husband is Jewish and she converted before they were married in June, while she was pregnant.

The wave of terror also has made self-defense courses and pepper spray the new fad.

Update: The union has called off the strike after reaching an agreement with the Airport Authority.

“The prohibition against shaming a person, which is Torah-level, supersedes the obligation to read the Torah aloud, which is rabbinic.”

The Bible's first mitzvah: "And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth..."

It’s cute, inventive and raises an interesting question n Jewish law on appointing a representative to perform a mitzvah.

When a Muslim won’t look at a woman, it is called respect. When a Jew won’t shake her hand, it is called sexism.

Praying in a minyan on an airplane is forbidden if it robs others  passengers of their sleep or interferes with the duties of stewards...

In Judaism sex is regarded as something wonderful, positive, and a gift of God.

Why should someone who did convert in an Orthodox ceremony be sending out all the signals that they didn't?

The proper response for almost the entire population of planet Earth to these eternal questions about man-made meat is “I am not qualified to render an opinion on this matter.”

Preliminary thoughts on the halachic status of lab-created meat: it's kosher--if you started the process kosher. but no final words yet.

As far as the half million Israelis living in Judea and Samaria—most of whom are Jewish Home voters—the referendum bill leaves them in the cold.

The mikveh barely existed in 19th century American, where Jewish immigrants turned against religion. But one has been found in Connecticut, and it is more similar those in Israel than in the US.

“Some of the women were doctors, and lawyers—educated women with tears running down their faces in gratitude..."

The protesters were claiming that there are Jewish burial caves nearby, which may not be disturbed.

The late Israeli Supreme Court judge Menachem Elon, was a pioneer of Jewish and Israeli law.

"It is a Sabbath of Sabbaths for you, and you shall afflict yourselves, It is an eternal statute” (Vayikra 16:31). This is how our Torah sums up the upcoming experience of Yom Kippur: a Sabbath of all Sabbaths. Rather than use the more colloquially known "Yom HaKippurim," The Day of Atonement, the Torah reading of Yom Kippur morning uses the above term to summarize the twenty-five hour experience we are about to step into.

A monastery in Israel is desecrated, almost certainly by nationalist extremists. The desecration was condemned by the prime minister and others in the government. Chief Rabbi Metzger called it a “heinous deed.” The Internal Security minister did not hesitate to use the word “terror” and announced the formation of a special police unit to combat it. Many people traveled to the monastery to personally apologize, including Rabbi Dov Lipman of Beit Shemesh, who took brush in hand to help scrub the offensive words from the walls.

When it comes to Metzitza B’Peh, we are not discussing a Biblical Commandment, nor are we referring to a Rabbinical enactment from the Gemarah's time. We are referring to a hallowed Minhag from days of yore to use the mouth only.

In the early days of Statehood, when Rabbi Avraham Yeshaya Karelitz, the famed Chazon Ish, and other leading rabbis reached a compromise with David Ben Gurion to provide military exemptions for yeshiva students, only some 400 students were exempted. Writing about a Milchemet Mitzvah, the Chazon Ish himself recognized that “if there is a need for them, they must come to the aid of their brethren.”