Category: Halakha & Modernity

Can A Woman Be A Sandak?

Rabbi Ysoscher Katz
(Posted on January 9, 2017)
From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies

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Further on Waiting Times After Eating Parmesan Pizza

Rabbi Ysoscher Katz
(Posted on January 5, 2017)
From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies

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Is Swimming for Pleasure Permitted on Shabbat?

Rabbi Dov Lerea
(Posted on December 22, 2016)
From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies

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Letakein Olam Be-Malkhut Sha-dai

by Rabbi Chanoch Waxman
Posted on December 9, 2016

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How a Baby Is Made

by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on December 8, 2016

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How is a Baby Made?  More specifically, what determines the future characteristics of the child?  One answer emerges from the story of Yaakov’s breeding of the sheep, an answer that seems to be endorsed by the Talmud: a child’s character is shaped by what the mother and father were thinking and doing at the time of conception.…

Meat After Parmesan On Pizza

Rabbi Ysoscher Katz
(Posted on December 8, 2016)
From the Lindenbaum Center for Halakhic Studies

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From the Ramban’s Rainbow to the Theory of Evolution (Hebrew)

by Rabbi Dr. Yoel Bin-Nun
Posted on December 2, 2016

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DNA Evidence in Mamzeirut Cases: How Much Reality Can and Should Halakhah Acknowledge

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
Posted on December 2, 2016

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Science and Halakhah: Sympathies and Strategies

by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on December 2, 2016

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Should Facts Affect Faith?

by Rabbi Aryeh Klapper
Posted on December 2, 2016

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Confronting Halakhic Sections in Humash

by Rabbi Zvi Grumet
Posted on November 30, 2016

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Marital Sex: Halakhic and Ethical Parameters

by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on November 28, 2016

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