The recent corruption convictions of two prominent Orthodox Jewish leaders here — former Assemblyman Sheldon Silver and William Rapfogel, former head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty — ...

While the Internet and AI can’t aid in the original thought and analysis that is the essence of Torah study, they can act as helpful resources to begin one’s study of a subject. There has been a great ...

To state that Halacha is pro-choice is the equivalent of claiming that Halacha is pro-theft or pro-lying concerning the Torah’s prohibition to steal and its requirement to be honest. Imagine that a ...

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Women in Judaism face two major issues. On the one hand, there are thousands of years of Halacha and rabbinic texts regarding the laws and practices specific to Jewish women that they must follow. On ...

Even as Orthodox women take on clergy-like roles, the task of interpreting Jewish law has long been the exclusive domain of men. But a new group called Beit Hillel aims to bring down that barrier. An ...

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Halacha is this-worldly. It deals with the observable, grounds itself in facts and reality, and provides practical, detailed guidance for daily life. It acknowledges life’s messiness while directing ...

In a new and precedent-setting halachic ruling published in the recent edition of the Tehumin journal, Rabbi Yaakov Ariel rules that one can wrap tefillin (phylacteries), wave the Four Species on ...

mitzvot Jew who once identified as gay but now accepts the authority of halacha regarding human sexuality and has been “openly celibate” for more than a year.) ...

Abraham and Isaac — or, as some would have it, Ibrahim and Ishmael — took center stage when a panel including Muslim imams and some of America’s most prominent Modern Orthodox rabbis discussed their ...

“It’s my job to be a public person and I get that,” actress Mayim Bialik told a packed crowd at the Barnes & Noble book-signing of her third book, Girling Up: How to Be Strong, Smart and Spectacular ...