Halakhic Discussions

Shimi Kaufman analyzes Rav Shimon Shkop's perspectives of halakha and human experience, through the lens of financial law.

It is customary to celebrate Tu Bi-Shevat by eating fruits and reciting the She-Hehiyanu blessing on them. This custom, however, has proved challenging in recent years as advances in technology have made it difficult to find new fruit—as defined by halakhah—to say the She-Hehiyanu

Alan Jotkowitz disagrees with Sharon Galper Grossman’s and Shamai Grossman’s halakhic argument that wealthy nations should provide booster shots to their own populations before contributing doses to poorer countries.

Yonathan Reches explores the sources related to a bridge traversing over and Eruv.

Sharon Galper Grossman and Shamai Grossman examine Halakhic sources regarding whether physicians and other healthcare workers have a greater requirement to receive the COVID-19 vaccine than the rest of the population.

Aryeh Dienstag Since October 7 and the war that followed, public debate has intensified around the legal status of non-Jews living in the State of...

Elli Fischer contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.

Shmuel Klitsner's insider perspectives on making a Hanukkah classic.

Yonah Lavery-Yisraeli offers a careful examination of an enigmatic discussion in the Shulhan Arukh’s laws on neighborly relations. She demonstrates how “radical presence” and attention to sensory details is an essential strategy for halakhic decision-making.

Jeffrey Woolf contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.