Posts Tagged: Jewish Law
Jewish Law Provides Vision and Detail
Our parsha (Bible portion) takes us through a bewildering transition. Until now in Shemot (Exodus), we have been carried along by the sweep and drama...
New Diapers Make it Kosher to Keep Babies Clean on Shabbos
There's Kosher wine, kosher meat, and now kosher...diapers? Indeed, the item has become a hot commodity in kosher supermarkets and convenience stores in very religious neighborhoods. "It's...
Rabbinic Violence
I can't even begin to express how embarrassed I am by the case currently getting massive exposure in the press and T.V. about a collection...
Rabbis Arrested in Agunot Scheme
NY Daily News - Two rabbis plotted to kidnap Jewish husbands, torture them with electric cattle prods and force them to grant their desperate...
Candidate for Israel’s Chief Rabbinate David Stav on Conversions, Women of the Wall and Healing the Rift Between the Orthodox and the Secular (INTERVIEW)
On the eve of elections for the Israeli chief rabbinate, one of the more prominent candidates, Rabbi David Stav, told The Algemeiner that he believes...
A Lousy Excuse
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse," we are told. Try explaining to the traffic cop that you simply never knew crossing a red light...
Speak Nicely, But Clearly
That the Torah (Bible) speaks in refined language is a principle of Biblical studies. The classic example is back in the story of Noah. There,...
Judaism and Revelation
We've all heard the sensible saying that history is written by the victors, but on second reflection it should seem clear that it's not...
The Politics of Revelation
The revelation at Mount Sinai - the central episode not only of the parshah of Yitro, but of Judaism as a whole - was unique...
Bringing Judaism’s Oral Law to the Deaf
JERUSALEM—If you are a religious deaf man in Israel, the traditional doors to Jewish learning have been in so many ways closed to you. But Yosef...
Kevin Youkilis Leads the Pack of Jewish Big Apple Ballplayers
"What happens when you combine a Greek omelet-sounding name with a bagel and lox?" a friend of mine asked me the other day. "You have Kevin...
Is Judaism Pro-Choice or Pro-Life?
Thank goodness the election is over and we can get on with the fun things in our lives! The Bible clearly encourages men and women...
Reinterpreting Bible Scenes Illuminates New Meanings
It is one of the most famous scenes in the Bible. Abraham is sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat...
Use Fish, Not Chicken for Kaparot
Thousands of Orthodox Jews are preparing to swing live chickens over their heads before Yom Kippur, symbolically transferring their sins to the chicken. The chicken...
