Jewish law

New study examines debate over brain-dead pregnant women kept on ventilator

The case that occurred in 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia, has just been described in “The halachic heartbeat at the edge of life: navigating maternal brain death and fetal life.”

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Prof. John Loike (R), Prof Alan Kadish (M), and Rabbi Tzvi Flaum (L)
First responders at the scene where dozens of toddlers were suspected to have been badly poisoned at a daycare in Jerusalem. January 19, 2026.

High Court of Justice blocks autopsies of dead infants from Jerusalem daycare disaster

Authorities called for the autopsies, given that the cause of death has not yet been definitively determined, while the families of the deceased petitioned the court against them.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal, Katz Prize laureates, and members of the prize committee

Katz Prize honorees recognized at President’s residence

President Isaac Herzog hailed the laureates’ efforts to integrate Halacha, the Bible, and the modern State of Israel

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rabbi Eliezer B. Diamond, who taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary for 35 years, died on Dec. 11 at 73.

Rabbi Eliezer Diamond, beloved Jewish Theological Seminary professor and author, dies at 73

Diamond taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary for over three decades and left an indelible mark on generations of rabbis and Jewish scholars.

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA

Roe v. Wade: Overturning would be unconscionable infringement on religious freedom - opinion

Taking away choices about pregnancy undermines central values of Jewish law: bringing to bear competing Torah values, and owning the complexity of one’s reality.

MAY 19, 2022ByDOV LINZER/JTA, SARA HURWITZ/JTA
Protesters attend the "Jewish Rally for Abortion Justice" at Union Square near the U.S. Capitol on May 17, 2022.

Agunah Day as the aftermath of war

While Jewish law bends over backwards to resolve this human tragedy, by wisely loosening the strictures of proof of death ordinarily demanded by Jewish law.

MARCH 9, 2022ByRACHEL LEVMORE
RABBI PROF. Michael J. Broyde delivers an address about the Tripartite Agreement at an event in 2019.

Leader of pro-Israel student group running for Congress in Nevada

David Brog, leader of the Maccabee Task force and longtime protege of the Adelsons, is running for Congress in Nevada.

FEBRUARY 19, 2022ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
CUFI executive director, David Brog, speaking at the group's Israel Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., July 13-14, 2015.

RZA partnership brings Tzurba M'Rabanan to Amazon

The Religious Zionists of America's (RZA) Tzurba M'Rabanan is now available on Amazon in English.

DECEMBER 12, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
DOING WHAT she loves: The revolutionary rabbanit in the beit midrash.

Jewish Law: Kosher food in non-observant homes

The important initiatives that try to protect two important values: Kosher food observance, which connects us to our heritage, and the personal ties that bind us together as a nation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021BySHLOMO M. BRODY
EXAMINING CABBAGE to confirm it is kosher, in the fields near Kibbutz Sarid, Jezreel Valley.

Jewish law: How to purchase produce during shmita

Many Talmudic sages believe that shmita restrictions today stem only from a rabbinic decree. A few even assert that our observance of these laws is a pious custom.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021BySHLOMO M. BRODY
Fresh vegetables are sold at the shuk (market)

Afghan's last Jew signs divorce papers without a Jewish witness - report

There is doubt as to whether or not the papers will be recognized in a Jewish court, as the witnesses were not considered "kosher," with one of them reportedly being a Priest.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021BySHIRA SILKOFF
Zabulon Simantov, an Afghan Jew, prays at a Jewish cemetery in Kabul November 5, 2013. In his 50s, Simintov is the last known Afghan Jew to remain in the country. He has become something of a celebrity over the years and his rivalry with the next-to-last Jew, who died in 2005, inspired a play.

Why is it ever okay to write down oral Jewish law?

"The truth is that the oral Torah was never written down. The meaning of the Torah has never been contained by books" - Abraham Joshua Heschel.

JULY 8, 2021ByLEVI COOPER
CELEBRATING A new Torah scroll at the Lvov synagogue in Safed.

How are time-bound mitzvot in Judaism defined?

One of the major distinctions between the genders is women’s exemption from positive time-bound mitzvot.

MAY 26, 2021ByNECHAMA GOLDMAN BARASH
CONSTRUCTING THE sukkah: Are women exempt from sitting in it?

Is preemptive warfare allowed in Jewish law?

Getting these decisions right can be the difference between triumph and travail.

MAY 6, 2021BySHLOMO BRODY
IDF CHIEF rabbi Shlomo Goren with a wounded soldier, 1969