Rabbinic Blog Posts
2025
“Conversion Conundrums”January 15, 2025 at Crosscurrents at https://cross-currents.com/2025/01/15/21069/
January 15, 2025
2024
A Mitzvah Like Maror,
September 26, 2024
2023
Examining a Controversial Heter: A Woman Converted as an Infant Marrying a Kohen— The Novel Approach of Rabbi Ephraim Greenblatt (Rivevos Efraim)
January 1, 2023
2022
The court’s decision regarding YU | Transgender in Halacha
October 6, 2022
Governmental overreach in Hasidic Jewish education must stop
October 6, 2022
Why Would Anyone Use a Contract to Solve the Agunah Problem?
September 7, 2022
Cheerleading Rarely Helps
July 8, 2022
האם אישה שנתגיירה בקטנותה רשאית להנשא לכהן בדיעבד?
January 1, 2022
2021
A Reply to Rabbi Yaakov Menken on Abortion
October 2, 2021
Abortion and Religious Freedom
September 27, 2021
Why do we need judges and Police?
August 12, 2021
2020
Remembering Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz, zt”l
December 18, 2020
Not From the Philadelphia I Know
August 26, 2020
A Brief Unpublished Teshuva From Rabbi Norman Lamm
June 26, 2020
An Introduction to Pandemic Jewish Law
April 24, 2020
2019
The Equality Act Is Good For The Jews
July 3, 2019
Regulating Yeshivas? A Neutral Law Analysis
January 14, 2019
Religious Edicts, Secular Law and the Family
January 1, 2019
2017
In Celebration of Rabbi Norman Lamm’s Ninetieth Birthday
December 5, 2017
There is no Bracha on an Eclipse
September 3, 2017
2015
The Presidency of Yeshiva University: The Harder Questions
December 9, 2015
Free Market Judaism and Conversion Standards
August 30, 2015
2014
2013
My Nom de Plume Exposed
April 13, 2013
Shaving on Chol HaMoed
March 27, 2013
Justice Menachem Elon, of blessed memory
February 20, 2013
Mishnah Berurah Methodology
January 29, 2013
Report Abuse to Police, Not Rabbis
January 16, 2013
2012
Ideology or Community? An Exchange Between Rabbis Broyde and Feldman
December 30, 2012
Women Wearing Tallit?
December 11, 2012
Who is a Ger [Convert]?
November 18, 2012
Orientation During Prayer
October 21, 2012
Women’s Only Torah Reading
October 15, 2012
Meat and Dairy in One Oven
August 5, 2012
9th of Av on Shabbat
July 26, 2012
Convert on a Beit Din for Conversion
July 1, 2012
Mandating Prenuptial Agreements
May 29, 2012
The Sound of Silence
April 30, 2012
Entry into a Church
April 3, 2012
Who Is Poor on Purim
March 7, 2012
Valentine’s Day and Jewish Law: A Reply to a Thoughtful Critic
February 14, 2012
2011
Is New Year’s Kosher
December 27, 2011
Biblical Theology of Rabbi Emanuel Rackman
December 14, 2011
Modern Orthodoxy is Always at the Crossroads
November 9, 2011
Hair Covering By a Bride
September 13, 2011
Oat Matzah
August 9, 2011
The Conduct of Children is a Message to Parents
May 24, 2011
The Yerushalmi as a Source of Halacha
May 3, 2011
Time of Death and Jewish Law: Some Tentative Thoughts.
February 9, 2011
2010
Timers on Shabbat and Yom Tov
September 21, 2010
Women Leading Kabbalat Shabbat: Some Thoughts
August 19, 2010
2009
Married Women and Hair Covering: A Request for Comment
December 2, 2009
Women Receiving Aliyot? A Short Halakhic Analysis
November 27, 2009
A Father’s Pride and Joy
August 20, 2009
Entering a Sanctuary for Hatzalat Yisrael: An Exchange
February 2, 2009
Something Old, Something New: Reflections on Conversion in America
February 1, 2009
Child Conversions II
January 12, 2009
2008
2007
If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem!
December 6, 2007
Sabbatical Year Guidelines for the Diaspora 5768
September 5, 2007
2003
Collecting Candy on Halloween
March 23, 2003