A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: Rambam requires salt on independent wine offerings because ...

While the Internet and AI can’t aid in the original thought and analysis that is the essence of Torah study, they can act as helpful resources to begin one’s study of a subject. There has been a great ...

To state that Halacha is pro-choice is the equivalent of claiming that Halacha is pro-theft or pro-lying concerning the Torah’s prohibition to steal and its requirement to be honest. Imagine that a ...

New episode of “Lemaan Yishmeu,” the weekly halacha podcast with Rabbi Yosef Yeshaya Braun, Mara D’asra, and member of the ...

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Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

Women in Judaism face two major issues. On the one hand, there are thousands of years of Halacha and rabbinic texts regarding ...

The recent corruption convictions of two prominent Orthodox Jewish leaders here — former Assemblyman Sheldon Silver and William Rapfogel, former head of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty — ...

Let us begin by briefly reviewing the Rambam’s formulation: Our Sages ruled that when complications arise and a pregnant woman cannot give birth, it is permitted to abort the fetus in her womb, ...

During a speech he gave at a sheva berachos, Rav Shmuel Berenbaum, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn, noted that he had seen a cereal box that had on its cover a picture of an athlete ...