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Question 30: From Gaza: may our master teach us whether the inhabitants of Gaza are obligated to separate terumot and tithes, as there are a few people who own land. In general, the question is…
I have examined the matter carefully, to see whether I should uphold that which they have already done, in nullifying the custom [of reciting the priestly blessing after dark, during the Ne…
Balfour Brickner’s testimony was presented at hearings before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments.
Poor Blu Greenberg, has she let herself in for it. In seeking to effect a synthesis between Orthodoxy and feminism in On Women and Judaism, she has managed to anger partisans on both sides of the…
The decision of 15 February 1983 by the New York State Court of Appeals in the Case of Avitzur v. Avitzur has been hailed by religious and legal scholars alike. The decision recognized…
The process that ultimately enabled women to serve as pleaders in the rabbinical courts began thanks to the initiative of one woman, Ruth Margarit Neiger of Raananah…
In view of the wide divergence of opinion and of the conflicting ideas prevailing in Judaism today, we, as representatives of Reform Judaism in America, in continuation of the work begun at…
We see that the categories of understanding the nation produced in its adolescence are a result of emotions developed in its childhood. According to our approach, we can conclude that the Talmud—which…
The ketubah is a religious and legal contract of marriage. Traditionally, it outlines the conjugal and economic conditions of a marriage and is written in Aramaic. This one, made in Bucharest, Romania…
[ . . . ] In regard to the boycott [of German goods], in my view, the rabbis ought to have stood aloof, at a distance, and not to have involved themselves with this at all, as this is an issue…