Blog Posts
2023
Halachic Issues Related to the Month of Tishre
August 1, 2023
Looking to the Future
July 30, 2023
Life Saving Ethics
July 9, 2023
The Codification of Jewish Law
June 6, 2023
Shabbat Hagadol with Rabbi Broyde
March 31, 2023
Blog Post 1
March 29, 2023
Reply to Letters to the Editor on Accommodation
March 10, 2023
Accommodation is Still the Better Path
February 15, 2023
The First Breath: Ethical Dilemmas in Beginning of Life Care
February 12, 2023
Jewish Law and International Law
February 1, 2023
Charity in Modern Times
January 29, 2023
Accommodation is the Way Forward in America
January 11, 2023
2022
Electricity and Halacha
October 23, 2022
Law, Religion & Abortion Law of the United States: A Jewish View
September 22, 2022
Jewish Law Invites Complex Questions On Abortion by Nomi Kaltmann
September 22, 2022
my response
June 28, 2022
letters to the editor critical of my view
June 28, 2022
Jews and Abortion in Secular Law
May 10, 2022
Medical Ethics and Halacha
May 1, 2022
Blog Post 2
March 29, 2022
Jews Law’s COVID Responsa
March 27, 2022
Interview in Law and Religion
March 21, 2022
Agunah in the Aftermath of War by Rachel Levmore
March 9, 2022
Faith Can Not Abrogate Contracts
January 26, 2022
Religious Values of Secular Charted Institutions
January 11, 2022
2021
Halloween in Jewish Law: Religious and Cultural Transformation
December 15, 2021
Cases Presented in Rabbinical Court
December 9, 2021
May One Converted Younger than Three Marry a Kohein
December 7, 2021
Self Defense in the Jewish Traditions
December 1, 2021
Religious Arbitration in America
November 1, 2021
NetFlix: Happy Hate Speech Spreader?
October 26, 2021
The Great Disputes of Jewish Law in the Twentieth Century
October 3, 2021
Rabbi Yeheil Michel Epstein and his Arukh Hashulchan
September 22, 2021
Memorial Day in America and Yom Hazikaron in Israel
August 21, 2021
SCOTUS: Religious freedom during a pandemic
July 26, 2021
Comparing American and Jewish Law
June 9, 2021
Stay on the Job, Justice Breyer
May 20, 2021
Gun control, Letters to the Editor
March 25, 2021
2020
The Misuse of the Presidential Pardon, Letters to the Editor
December 29, 2020
Fixed Terms for Justices Will Not Fix the Confirmation Controversies
December 22, 2020
Keeping Kosher in the Modern World
December 16, 2020
Blog Post 3
March 29, 2020
Understanding the Seder
March 15, 2020
The Case for Ginsburg to Recuse Herself
March 4, 2020
Jewish Justice: Guyger, Forgiveness, and Christian Love
February 5, 2020
Methodologies of Jewish Law in the Last 1,000 Years
January 1, 2020
2019
Themes in the Book of Exodus
November 23, 2019
The First Amendment and Courts Interpreting Religious Terms
November 1, 2019
Discrimination isn’t Good For the Jews
August 1, 2019
Orthodox Judaism and the Other
July 18, 2019
Choice of Law and Forum
July 1, 2019
Memorial Day Weekend Scholar in Residence
May 25, 2019
Is Moses or David the Idealized Model of a Jewish Leader
January 12, 2019
2018
Dysfunctional Law Gives Everyone Rights and Harms Children
December 5, 2018
Six Steps for Dealing with Abuse Scandals
February 27, 2018
2017
Op-Ed: The Moral Debate Over Statues
September 8, 2017
A Shabbos with Rabbi Michael Broyde
August 18, 2017
Sharia in America
June 30, 2017
Criticisms of Religious Arbitration
June 29, 2017
The Rise and Rise of Religious Arbitration
June 26, 2017
Were Trump’s Syrian Missile Strikes Morally Justified?
April 13, 2017
Editorial
January 1, 2017
2016
Letter to the Editor
December 1, 2016
Transgender Bathroom Issue: A Solution?
October 28, 2016
On Conversion, The True Issue Is Standards
August 2, 2016
A Jewish Solution on Transgender Bathrooms
June 28, 2016
Letter to the Editor
March 12, 2016
Here’s Who Should Replace Antonin Scalia
February 22, 2016
2014
Contribution to What Makes Us Happy? A Symposium
October 8, 2014
Religious Freedom, Metzitzah B’Peh, Circumcision
September 4, 2014
Response to Reader for the Orthodox Jewish Psychotherapist
January 1, 2014
2013
The Multifarious Models for Jewish Marriage
April 1, 2013
Parsonage Problems: The Ethics of Taxation
March 1, 2013
A Student Remembers Justice Menachem Elon
February 20, 2013
Žižek, ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and Torture
February 5, 2013
2012
Does Maimonides Require Acceptance of Commandments for Conversion?
September 24, 2012
Custom as a Source of Jewish Law
August 24, 2012
Jerusalem, in Love and War
August 21, 2012
Religious Freedom Has Limits, For Good Reason
January 1, 2012
2011
The Ten Commandments are… An Antidote to Subjectivity
November 16, 2011
Dealing with the Agunah Quandary for 9/11 Widows
September 7, 2011
2010
Predicting The Future Of Disposable Income?
March 22, 2010
Homosexuality and Halacha: Five Critical Points
March 17, 2010
Hair Covering and Jewish Law: A Response
February 24, 2010
Cloning People
January 1, 2010
In War and Peace
January 1, 2010
2009
May the Jewish Daughter of a Gentile Man Marry a Kohen?
August 24, 2009
Entering a Sanctuary for Hatzalat Yisrael: An Exchange
August 24, 2009
A Father’s Pride and Joy
August 20, 2009
Orthodox Women Clergy?
July 23, 2009
Religious Leadership and Political Leadership
April 1, 2009
Feb. 28, 1997: The Day Joe Lieberman Lost The Presidency?
February 25, 2009
How Kosher is Kosher
February 24, 2009
National and International Law, and Jewish Law
February 1, 2009
2008
Death of a Giant: Thoughts on the Passing of Rabbi Emanuel Rackman
December 10, 2008
Hekhsher Tzedek’s Law Problem
September 25, 2008
Prisoner Exchanges, Redeeming Captives and Jewish Law
September 24, 2008
Letter to the Editor: Meat Packing and Jewish Law
August 12, 2008
There Can Only Be One Law of the Land
February 20, 2008
2007
Sharia Courts in America?
November 7, 2007
Military Ethics in Jewish Law
August 24, 2007
The End of Conservative Judaism
February 9, 2007
Only the Good Die Young?
January 24, 2007
Practical Pluralism
January 5, 2007
2006
Truth-Seeking as the Mission
August 21, 2006
Jewish Law and Torture
July 7, 2006
Memorial Day Loses Meaning
May 29, 2006
Filtering Out Religion a Recipe for Blandness
January 22, 2006
Defund Terrorists
January 1, 2006
2005
A Jewish Law View of World Law
August 24, 2005
Why Educate: A Jewish Law Perspective
August 24, 2005
ערכה של הכתובה (The Value of the Ketubah in America)
August 24, 2005
Full Time Yeshiva Learning: An Exchange
August 3, 2005
Can There be Solutions to the Agunah Problem
January 1, 2005
Court is Clear: Displays Shall Not Advance Religion
January 1, 2005
Damned If You Do…
January 1, 2005
Letter to a Friend about Modern Orthodoxy
January 1, 2005
Prayer
January 1, 2005
A Letter to a Friend about Modern Orthodoxy
January 1, 2005
A Statement on the Peace Process in Israel
January 1, 2005
2004
Adoption Generally, and Closed Adoption Specifically in Jewish Law
September 1, 2004
Severance Pay and Jewish Law
August 24, 2004
Compromise Would Satisfy All in Faith-Based Debate
February 11, 2004
In Judaism, Playing God is Good
January 1, 2004
2003
קידושי טעות בזמננו (Error in the Creation of Marriage)
August 24, 2003
Solomon, He Ain’t
February 3, 2003
2002
Battlefield Ethics in the Jewish Tradition
August 24, 2002
Informing on Others to a Just Government: A Jewish Law View
August 24, 2002
דם ביצים בימינו (Technology and Change in Jewish Law)
August 24, 2002
Review of Jewish Law (Mishpat Ivri): Cases and Materials
January 1, 2002
2001
רחיצה ביום טוב (Festival Law and Change in Jewish Law)
August 24, 2001
Cloning and the Noahide Legal Code
August 24, 2001
The Diagnosis of Brain Death
August 23, 2001
Jewish Law Understands and Permits Retaliation by Shaq
January 30, 2001
2000
Celebrating Secular Holidays
September 1, 2000
Blood Spots in Eggs
August 24, 2000
The Power and Purpose of Jewish Law
May 24, 2000
1999
Assisted Reproduction and Jewish Law
August 24, 1999
Child Custody in Jewish Law: A Conceptual Analysis
August 24, 1999
Cloning People
April 1, 1999
1998
Cloning People: A Jewish Law Analysis of the Issues
August 24, 1998
Impeachment and Accountability: The Case of the First Lady
August 24, 1998
The Cloning Controversy
June 1, 1998
I Have No Benefit from the Decree of the Sages
January 1, 1998
1996
Cloning People in Jewish Law: A Preliminary Analysis
August 24, 1996
Assisting in a Violation of Noachide Law
August 24, 1996
Shaving on the Intermediate Days of the Festivals
August 24, 1996
Letter to the Editor: Modesty
January 1, 1996
1995
The Use of Elevators and Escalators on Sabbath and Yom Tov
August 24, 1995
The 1992 New York Get [Jewish Divorce] Law
August 24, 1995
1994
Child Custody in Jewish Law: A Pure Law Analysis
August 24, 1994
Letter to the Editor: Israeli Citrons
January 1, 1994
Some Preliminary Issues Concerning Noahide Laws
January 1, 1994
1993
Electrically Produced Fire or Light in Positive Commandments
October 1, 1993
Communal Prayer and Women
September 1, 1993
Letter to the Editor: Insurance Risks
August 19, 1993
Letter to the Editor: Nature and Television
August 14, 1993
Letter to the Editor: Joking Apart
July 29, 1993
Letter to the Editor: Halakhic Pluralism
April 1, 1993
Conditional Conversions? A Review
January 1, 1993
Shmittah 5754: A Rejoinder
January 1, 1993
1991
היתר מפורש בקרא (Explicitly Permitted in the Bible)
June 22, 1991
The Use of Electricity on Shabbat and Yom Tov
April 1, 1991
1990
Enabling a Jew to Sin: The Parameters
January 1, 1990
On the Practice of Law According to Jewish Law
January 1, 1990
1988