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Judaism
Tradition Today: But who’s counting?
The Torah does not permit us to count persons. That is a great lesson: people are not numbers.
By REUVEN HAMMER
Ask the Rabbi: Can a judicial court nullify a conversion?
Rabbi Avraham Sherman's nullification of an Israeli rabbinate conversion has stirred up controversy.
By SHLOMO BRODY
Parshat Emor: The Word and the Law
“I shall be sanctified in the midst of the children of Israel…” (Leviticus 22:32)
By SHLOMO RISKIN
The ideal medieval Jewish woman
His story/ her story: The life of Dolce of Worms is described in the famous elegy composed by her widowed husband.
By RENÉE LEVINE MELAMMED
The Tisch: The reliability of messy writing
Jewish law proscribes the use of a scroll written by a gentile or by a nonbeliever.
By LEVI COOPER
Parashat Aharei Mot-Kedoshim: The way to teach
‘Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbor, nor rob him.’ (Kedoshim, Leviticus 19:13.)
By SHLOMO RISKIN
Tradition Today: The feast of freedom
Tradition has labeled Passover “the time of our freedom.”
By REUVEN HAMMER
‘He said, she said,’ part 3
His Story/Her Story: These two responsa allow us to hear the voices of a Jewish-Egyptian couple in 12th-century Mediterranean society.
By RENÉE LEVINE MELAMMED
The Tisch: Hands that clap by themselves
The rabbinic prohibition only applies to those who clap their hands consciously.
By LEVI COOPER
Shabbat Hagadol: Family unity
"On a griddle it shall be made with oil; when it is soaked, thou shalt bring it in." (Tzav; Leviticus 6:14)
By SHLOMO RISKIN
Tradition Today: The whole megila
Scholars believe that Esther was written to give a Jewish slant to a Persian holiday Jews already observed.
By REUVEN HAMMER
Ask the Rabbi: May women chant Megilat Esther?
Major scholars have permitted women’s megila readings because they are in consonance with the vast majority of sources.
By SHLOMO BRODY
Parshat Ki Tisa: Divine absence and presence
The Book of Esther begins the era of a God who will grant victory as long as we act properly and initiate wisely.
By SHLOMO RISKIN
The Tisch: What’s in a name?
In Aleksander Hassidic leadership, there was a hassidic master who took his wife’s name for the sake of tradition and continuity.
By LEVI COOPER
Wearing signs of holiness
"You shall make [the high priest] a tzitz [head-plate] of pure gold, and you shall engrave upon it, engraved like a signet ring."
By SHLOMO RISKIN
A family treasure
The fantastic journey of a megila to a new Jewish museum in Germany.
By PHYLLIS HOFMAN WALDMANN
Tradition Today: Reclaiming the Torah
Any social protest movement would do well to seize the Torah as its mandate and its guide.
By REUVEN HAMMER
May Israelis eat grain products produced abroad?
Ask the Rabbi: Normative practice asserts that the grains must only have taken root by 13 Nisan.
By SHLOMO BRODY
His/Her Story: He said
The collection of Maimonides’s responsa that was published in its original Judeo-Arabic contains some wonderful material for the historian.
By RENÉE LEVINE MELAMMED
The Tisch: No Jew gets left behind
The Hassidic movement is famous for its warm approach to all, embracing even the sinners among us.
By LEVI COOPER
Parashat Mishpatim: Compassionate righteousness
You must help repeatedly with him (Exodus 23:5)
By SHLOMO RISKIN
Tradition Today: A woman's voice
The original Song of Songs verse is clearly a positive statement praising the beauty of a woman’s voice.
By REUVEN HAMMER
Ask the Rabbi: May women serve as rabbis?
The issue of women receiving rabbinic ordination has recently roiled the Orthodox community, particularly in America.
By SHLOMO BRODY
Moon and light
‘May the renewal of the moon be for you the first day of each month; this month being for you the first of the months of the year’ (Exodus 12:2).
By SHLOMO RISKIN
Free to be redeemed
‘Take thy rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent’ (Va’era; Exodus 7:9)
By SHLOMO RISKIN
Instruments of anger
Discover what Jacob's blessing was to his two "frum" sons and how this is the perfect path to the Divine.
By LEVI COOPER
The trial of Isabel López
Like mother, like daughter? A 16th century trial on Shabbat observance to dietary laws.
By RENÉE LEVINE MELAMMED
A ‘Hinju’ explores her roots
Birthright participant Kesha Ram was born to a Jewish mother and a Hindu father.
By JOSH HASTEN
Judaism and modernity
Reform officially considers Jewish law non-binding, while Conservative/ Masorti considers it binding.
By REUVEN HAMMER
Does Halacha recognize civil marriage?
Anyone legally betrothed must undergo a religious divorce process before he or she may marry someone else.
By SHLOMO BRODY
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