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Start off your year strong with a commitment to learning Halacha. Lemaan Yilmedu, the premiere English-language Halacha program, is kicking off their courses this week.

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 ...

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Halacha is this-worldly. It deals with the observable, grounds itself in facts and reality, and provides practical, detailed guidance for daily life. It acknowledges life’s messiness while directing ...

In a new and precedent-setting halachic ruling published in the recent edition of the Tehumin journal, Rabbi Yaakov Ariel rules that one can wrap tefillin (phylacteries), wave the Four Species on ...

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 — ...

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mitzvot Jew who once identified as gay but now accepts the authority of halacha regarding human sexuality and has been “openly celibate” for more than a year.) ...