Humility also operates on the communal plane. Psak is not only an intellectual exercise; it also shapes the unity and ...

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 — ...

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: Anyone who gives a gift on Shabbos receives lashes but the kinyan is valid.

Women in Judaism face two major issues. On the one hand, there are thousands of years of Halacha and rabbinic texts regarding the laws and practices specific to Jewish women that they must follow. On ...

MEDICAL, LEGAL AND HALACHIC PERSPECTIVES OF POSTHUMOUS SPERM RETRIEVAL . Nishmat’s Yoatzot Halacha Fertility Counselors in ...

In a recent column for The Jewish Week, Rabbi Ari Segal, head of school of Shalhevet High School in Los Angeles, called upon the Modern Orthodox community to foster more open and honest conversations ...

A class by Rabbi Heschel Greenberg on the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah: Retraction after payment requires mi shepara - Rambam: beis din administers, Mordechai: self administers.

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 ...

Even as Orthodox women take on clergy-like roles, the task of interpreting Jewish law has long been the exclusive domain of men. But a new group called Beit Hillel aims to bring down that barrier. An ...