Short Articles
2023
Letters to the editor, Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2023 “The Supreme State of Recusal on the High Court”
Wall Street Journal
August 10, 2023
Letter to the Editor, Wall Street Journal, “Should Justice Alito Have Recused Himself”
Wall Street Journal
June 24, 2023
Letter to the Editor, Wall Street Journal ” A Federal Pardon Won’t Save Trump”
Wall Street Journal
April 12, 2023
Examining a Controversial Heter: A Woman Converted as an Infant Marrying a Kohen— The Novel Approach of Rabbi Ephraim Greenblatt (Rivevos Efraim)
Hakirah 33:159-199 (2023)
January 1, 2023
2022
Give me Yavneh and It’s Sages: Realistic Orthodox Judaism Saves by Accommodation
The Jewish Press
December 23, 2022
Realistic Orthodox Judaism Saves by Accommodation: (Another Reply to Ben Shapiro’s article in the Jewish Press)
Cross Currents
December 23, 2022
The Case of the Sheitel: How Jewish Law Accommodates, Even on Cultural Matters, to Reduce Systemic Tension.
Canopy Forum
November 28, 2022
Jewish Law Invites Complex Questions On Abortion by Nomi Kaltmann
Religion Unplugged [This article is written by Nomi Kaltmann, and is extensively about my views on abortions.]
September 22, 2022
Amicus Letter to the California Supreme Court in Chrissie Carnell Bixler v. Church of Scientology International, et al. Case No. 9STCV29458
April 1, 2022
Jews Law’s COVID Responsa
Presented at "Judaism and Public Health: Living in the Shadow of Pademics", Arizona State University
March 27, 2022
האם אישה שנתגיירה בקטנותה רשאית להנשא לכהן בדיעבד?
Ohr Yisrael, 85, pages 208-220 (2022)
January 1, 2022
נישואי כהן עם גיורת מאימוצה בינקותה
Techumin 42:385-393 (2022)
January 1, 2022
2021
Halloween in Jewish Law: Religious and Cultural Transformation
Canopy Forum
December 15, 2021
Hasidic Parents Want Better Schools. New York Should Help Them Rather than Punish Them
Mosaic
December 2, 2021
When parents become subservient to the state, children’s lives are jeopardized
Christian Post
August 2, 2021
Andrew Yang Is Right. There Should be Very Little Regulation of Hasidic Education
Education Next
June 16, 2021
2020
Can Robots be Jewish and Other Pressing Question of Modern Jewish Life
Momement Press, 2020) pages 113-114. (editor, Amy Schwartz)
December 22, 2020
Thanksgiving and Traditional Jewish Life: Celebrating American Holidays and Jewish Law
Canopy Forum
November 25, 2020
The Ghosts Have Become Alive: Yeshiva University and the Future of Religiously Affiliated Higher Education in America
Yeshiva University Commentator
May 10, 2020
Jewish Law During a Pandemic: The 35 Responsa of Rabbi Hershel Schachter Issued Due to COVID-19
Berkely Center of Georgetown University
April 27, 2020
Privatizing the Temple Mount (Haram es-Sharif) and the Western Wall (Kotel)
Journal of Law, Religion and State (Brill, 2020) 23-47.
January 1, 2020
Loving the Convert Prior to a Completed Conversion: With a Test Case Application of Inviting Conversion Candidates to Pesach Seder and Yom Tov Meals
Hakirah 28:147-185 (2020)
January 1, 2020
The Legal Significance of Custom in the Halakhic Jurisprudence of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein’s Arukh Hashulchan
Touro Law Review, 36:165-196 (2020)
January 1, 2020
Loving the Convert Prior to a Completed Conversion: With a Test Case Application of Inviting Conversion Candidates to Pesach Seder and Yom Tov Meals
Hakirah volume 28:147-185 (2020)
January 1, 2020
2019
The First Amendment and Courts Interpreting Religious Terms
The Volokh Conspiracy (A Law Professor Blog moderated by Eugene Voloch)
November 1, 2019
Religious Edicts, Secular Law and the Family
Journal of Law and Religion 34:496-505 (2019)
January 1, 2019
?האם הגר חייב בטבילת כלי סעודתו לאחר גיורו [=Is a Convert Obligated in the Immersion of his Utensils After Conversion?)
Published in Techumin 282-287 (2019)
January 1, 2019
2018
רבניות אורתודוקסיות ומורות הלכה: בין הזמני לנצחי (Orthodox Women Rabbis: Between the Timely and the Timeless)
Published in: Tzohar: Torah Journal of Society, Family, Religion, and State 43 (2018), 37–60.
January 1, 2018
2017
Religious Arbitration as a Secular Value: The Case for Religious Arbitration
The Washington Post (June 29, 2017).
June 29, 2017
Making Religious Arbitration Work in America: The Jewish Experience
The Washington Post
June 26, 2017
Were Trump’s Syrian Missile Strikes Morally Justified?
CNN.com
April 13, 2017
החוט המשולש לא במהרה ינתק”: הסכם תנאי בקידושין, הרשאה לכתיבת גט ותקנת קהל” (Tripartite Agreement)
Published in: Techumin (2017).
January 1, 2017
2016
Letter to the Editor
The New York Times
December 1, 2016
Contribution in What Guidance, If Any, Does Judaism Offer to Transgender People?
Moment Magazine (November 1, 2016)
November 1, 2016
A Jewish Solution on Transgender Bathrooms
The New York Jewish Week (June 28, 2016). (co-author: Amy D. Katz).
June 28, 2016
Why We Shouldn’t Force Hasidic Jews to Offer Secular Education
The Forward. (co-author: Yitzchak Adlerstein).
June 15, 2016
2015
Religious Liberty Versus Legislative Morality: Thoughts on the Supreme Court’s Recent Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
The Jewish Press
August 14, 2015
Religious Freedom and Orthodox Jews: Three Challenges We’ll Soon Confront
The Jewish Press (June 4, 2015).
June 4, 2015
2014
Religious Freedom, Metzitzah B’Peh, Circumcision
The Jewish Press (September 4, 2014)
September 4, 2014
Long-Term Solution to the Money Problems of Parochial Schools: Government Funding
HaYidion: The PRIZMAH Journal (Winter 2014), 66–7.
January 1, 2014
Review of Holy War in Judaism: The Fall and Rise of a Controversial Idea
Journal of Church and State 56:1 (Winter 2014), 159–62. (co-author: Mark Goldfeder).
January 1, 2014
Response to Reader for the Orthodox Jewish Psychotherapist
Reader for the Orthodox Jewish Psychotherapist (2014), 111–3.
January 1, 2014
2013
Evangelicals and Catholics Together on Law: Some Personal and Jewish Reflections
Journal of Christian Legal Thought 3:2 (Fall 2013), 6–10.
October 21, 2013
The Multifarious Models for Jewish Marriage
AJS Perspectives: The Magazine of the Association for Jewish Studies (Spring 2013), 52–3.
April 1, 2013
Parsonage Problems: The Ethics of Taxation
Looking Forward (Official Journal of the Aspen Center for Social Values) 1:2 (March 2014), 7–11.
March 1, 2013
2012
Jerusalem, in Love and War
10 Inspiring Articles Celebrating Yom Yerushalayim, Naphtali Weisz & Moshe Rothchild, eds., Teach for Israel (2012), 20–2. (co-author: Mark Goldfeder).
August 21, 2012
A One-Man Supreme Court: Why a Quarter of a Million People Turned Out to Mourn Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv
Tablet Magazine (2012).
July 31, 2012
Learning Law Young: What Happens When Schools Teach (Jewish) Law
HaYidion: The RAVSAK Journal (Winter 2012), 56–8. (co-author: Ira Bedzow).
January 1, 2012
2011
Contribution to What Does it Mean to be a Jew Today What do Jews Bring to the World?
Moment
October 6, 2011
Dealing with the Agunah Quandary for 9/11 Widows
The Jewish Press (2011). (co-author: Rabbi Yona Reiss).
September 7, 2011
2010
Review of Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism
Midwest Jewish Studies Association – Shofar Book Reviews (2010).
August 21, 2010
Letter in response to Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein’s review of Rabbi Aharon Feldman’s The Eye of The Storm
Jewish Action 70:4 (Summer 2010), 8
July 1, 2010
2009
Religious Leadership and Political Leadership
Chavrusa: Rabbinic Alumni Journal of Yeshiva University (Spring 2009), 17.
April 1, 2009
Feb. 28, 1997: The Day Joe Lieberman Lost The Presidency?
The Jewish Press
February 25, 2009
2008
2007
Op-Ed: After Annapolis – Thoughts about the Role of American Orthodox Jews
The Jewish Press (December 7, 2007), 4. (co-author: Yitzchok Adlerstein).
December 7, 2007
2006
Truth-Seeking as the Mission
Zev Nagel and Menachem Butler, eds., My Yeshiva College: 75 Years of Memories, New York: Yashar Books (2006), 325–7.
August 21, 2006
2005
Court is Clear: Displays Shall Not Advance Religion
Fulton County Daily Reporter (2005)
January 1, 2005
A Letter to a Friend about Modern Orthodoxy
Gevurah ve-Tif'eret: An Anthology of Essays in Honor of Michael and Channah Broyde, Atlanta, Georgia: Young Israel of Toco Hills (2005), 221–6.
January 1, 2005
Prayer for the State of Israel: Why Do We Say It and What Does It Mean?
Gevurah ve-Tif'eret: An Anthology of Essays in Honor of Michael and Channah Broyde, Atlanta, Georgia: Young Israel of Toco Hills (2005), 227–34.
January 1, 2005
The Parameters of the Mechitza in the Young Israel of Toco Hills: A Review of the Relevant Issues
Gevurah ve-Tif'eret: An Anthology of Essays in Honor of Michael and Channah Broyde, Atlanta, Georgia: Young Israel of Toco Hills (2005), 235–40.
January 1, 2005
A Statement on the Peace Process in Israel
Gevurah ve-Tif'eret: An Anthology of Essays in Honor of Michael and Channah Broyde, Atlanta, Georgia: Young Israel of Toco Hills (2005), 241–2.
January 1, 2005
“He Leaves and Cries; They Leave and Cry”: Schisms and Hatred in Judaism and How to Prevent Them
Gevurah ve-Tif'eret: An Anthology of Essays in Honor of Michael and Channah Broyde, Atlanta, Georgia: Young Israel of Toco Hills (2005), 243–7.
January 1, 2005
2004
Adoption Generally, and Closed Adoption Specifically in Jewish Law
Chadashot: Bulletin of the Chicago Rabbinical Council (September 2004), 3–7.
September 1, 2004
Compromise Would Satisfy All in Faith-Based Debate
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (February 11, 2004), A19.
February 11, 2004
In Judaism, Playing God is Good
Voices Across Boundaries: A Multifaith Review of Current Affairs
January 1, 2004
2003
2002
Review of Jewish Law (Mishpat Ivri): Cases and Materials
AJS Review, 26:1 (2002), 131–3. (co-author: Angela Riccetti).
January 1, 2002
2001
The Diagnosis of Brain Death
The New England Journal of Medicine 345 (August 23, 2001), 616–8.
August 23, 2001
Jewish Law Understands and Permits Retaliation by Shaq
The Los Angeles Daily Journal (January 30, 2001). (co-author: Yitzchok Adlerstein).
January 30, 2001
2000
1999
Cloning People
ewish Spectator (Spring 1999)
April 1, 1999
1998
The Cloning Controversy
Emunah Magazine (Spring/Summer 1998), 14–7.
June 1, 1998
I Have No Benefit from the Decree of the Sages
Newsletter of the Jewish Law Association 9 (1993), 4–7.
January 1, 1998
1996
Letter to the Editor: Modesty
Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 31 (1996), 123–6.
January 1, 1996
1994
Letter to the Editor: Israeli Citrons
In Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society 27 (1994), 120–2.
January 1, 1994
Some Preliminary Issues Concerning Noahide Laws
Newsletter of the Jewish Law Association 10 (1994), 5–7.
January 1, 1994
1993
Letter to the Editor: Nature and Television
Nature: A Journal of Scientific Inquiry
August 14, 1993
Review of “Between Civil and Religious Law: The Plight of the Agunah in American Society by Irving Breitowitz”
AALS Jewish Law Section Newsletter (May 1993), 2–4.
May 1, 1993
Letter to the Editor: Halakhic Pluralism
Tradition: A Journal of Jewish Thought 27:3 (Spring 1993), 108–10.
April 1, 1993
Conditional Conversions? A Review
Newsletter of the Jewish Law Association 8 (1993), 3–6.
January 1, 1993
Shmittah 5754: A Rejoinder
Derech Tehilla 12:2 (1993), 1.
January 1, 1993
1990
The Unfounded Fears of General Harkabi: Religion and the State of Israel
Midstream Magazine 37 (1990), 10–8. (co-author: Emmanuel Rackman).
January 1, 1990