184 posts categorized "Halakha"

April 23, 2013: Can A Synagogue Give A Known Pimp An Aliya?
Comments: 17 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Halakha , Haredim , Sefardim
Can a synagogue give a Torah honor to a known pimp? This question was asked of a gadol, leading haredi rabbi, and was answered. The answer may surprise you. Can a synagogue give a Torah honor to a known pimp?...

April 15, 2013: Haredi Man In Bag On Plane Says Rabbi Told Him To Do It
Comments: 45 | Categories: BTs , Halakha , Haredim , Israel , Religion
"I have known him for 25 years now. He is a retired lieutenant colonel who served in senior and classified positions in the Israel Air Force. Before Passover he flew to Israel, and because of a change in the flight...

March 14, 2013: Senior YU Rabbi Says He Didn't Try To Stop Child Sex Abuse At YU's High School Because He Could Not Be Sure Allegations Met Halakhic Threshold For Truth
Comments: 73 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Halakha , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
Speaking at a rabbinical conference in London, England, Rabbi Hershel Schachter, the rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva University's rabbinical school, says every community should have a board of Jewish yeshiva scholars who are also psychologists. That board should screen allegation of...

March 14, 2013: 15 Babies Die Every Year In NYC From Metzitzah B'Peh Herpes, Hospitals Cover Up Deaths Leading YU Rabbi Claims
Comments: 51 | Categories: Chabad , Circumcision , Halakha , Haredim , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
Speaking at a rabbinical conference in London, England, Rabbi Hershel Schachter, the rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva University's rabbinical school, claims 15 Jewish babies die every year in the New York City area from herpes transmitted by the haredi circumcision direct...

March 7, 2013: Could A Plague Of Near-Biblical Proportion Ease Poor Israelis Hunger Pangs?
Comments: 20 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal , Sefardim
As locusts descend on Southern Israel, controversy erupts over whether or not the winged pests are kosher to eat. Above right: A file photo of one type of locust used for illustrative purposes only Could A Plague Of Near-Biblical Proportion...

February 3, 2013: Is Football Kosher?
Comments: 36 | Categories: Halakha , Med-Ethics
Some rabbis ruled that boxing, because of it's high risk of serious injury including brain damage, was forbidden. But to my knowledge, no rabbi has ruled that American football is forbidden – even though the evidence that a high percentage...

December 27, 2012: When Is A Woman Like A Valued Pot?
Comments: 31 | Categories: Halakha , Women & Judaism
When she is governed by Jewish law – especially when that Jewish law is administered by haredim. The translation below was made by Rabbi Daniel Eidensohn. I added all the material in square brackets [ ], added some punctuation, changed...

December 27, 2012: No Representation, No Votes: Haredi Women Threaten Not To Vote For Haredi Parties That Refuse To Put Women On Their Knesset Lists
Comments: 12 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Israel , Women & Judaism
A group of haredi women insist that haredi political parties and rabbinical leaders are intentionally "misleading the public" by claiming that Jewish law forbids women from running for public office and serving in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. Rabbi Dov Halbertal:...

December 27, 2012: In A First For Israel, State Rabbinic Court Denies Woman Alimony Based On Alleged Lesbian Affair
Comments: 19 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Homophobia and its Discontents , Israel , Religion , Women & Judaism
Lesbian relationships are forbidden under Jewish law but generally bear no punishment and are not viewed as severe violations, unlike homosexual sex or heterosexual marital infidelity, which both carry severe punishments. Even so, the rabbis equated the purported affair with...

December 11, 2012: Chabad's Hanukkah Heresy
Comments: 69 | Categories: Chabad , Halakha , Hanukkah , History
Chabad's rabbis again show that ignorance is not only bliss in Crown Heights – it's the new halakha, too. First, a little historical background. All of the hundreds of ancient images of menorahs ever found look roughly like the menorah...

November 16, 2012: Is This Any Way To Treat The Poor?
Comments: 56 | Categories: Halakha , Hessed , MO & Chardal , Poverty & Homelessness
"…Jews believe in charity, but primarily as a private endeavor. The tithing obligation, or the dispensing of gifts to the poor in Biblical times (maasrot, leket, shikcha, pe’ah – known collectively as matnot aniyim, gifts to the poor), are all...

November 14, 2012: New High Tech Doors Trouble Haredi Rabbis
Comments: 50 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Israel
Two senior haredi poskim, decisors of Jewish law, Rabbis Shmuel HaLevi Wosner and Nissim Karelitz, the first hasidic and the second non-hasidic, have ruled that a new type of self-locking doors are problematic and should be avoided – but not...

October 3, 2012: A Jewish History Of Sleep
Comments: 25 | Categories: Halakha , History , Rabbis & Sex
How the way humans used to sleep impacted the history of Jewish prayer. Updated at 1:16 am CDT 10-4-2012 David K. Randall writes in the New York Times: …One of the first signs that the emphasis on a straight eight-hour...

September 30, 2012: Haredi Rabbis Ban Candle Lighting In Sukkahs
Comments: 32 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim
Lighting candles in a sukkah is a very unsafe practice, unless someone is going to be awake and watching over them at all times, and is prepared to put out a fire if the candles start one. Haredi rabbis have...

September 25, 2012: Hasidim Getting Through The Yom Kippur Fast – With An IV Drip
Comments: 79 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Insanity , Med-Ethics
Hasidim who are too sick or too frail to safely fast are increasingly getting hooked up to IV drips on Yom Kippur in order to keep the 'fast' – even though doing so is arguably a violation of halakha, Jewish...

August 23, 2012: Is It Permissible To Cut The Social Safety Net Because, As Paul Ryan Claims, We “Can’t Afford” It Anymore?
Comments: 101 | Categories: Halakha , Poverty & Homelessness
Among the arguments made by Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan to support his plan to cut the social safety net for America’s poor and working poor is that America just can’t afford these social programs anymore. They cost too...

August 22, 2012: Is Judaism Pro-Life Or Pro-Choice?
Comments: 104 | Categories: Halakha , Women & Judaism
Does Judaism ban all abortions? No. Does it allow abortions to protect the life of the mother? No.Judaism MANDATES that abortion be done if it necessary to protect the mother's life. Should a woman who has been raped be allowed...

August 5, 2012: Ladies And Gentlemen, Your Problems Are Solved: Introducing "Kosher" Diapers
Comments: 61 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim
"The use of pampers on Shabbos and Yom Tov has always been a cause of grave concern for חשש of מלאכת שבת when opening and closing the adhesive tapes. Currently there is an innovative new development in the world of...

July 29, 2012: Should You Really Be Fasting In This Heat?
Comments: 38 | Categories: Halakha , Med-Ethics
Is it safe for you to fast when the temperatures have been so high in most of the US for so much of the summer? The answer may surprise you. Three weeks ago, I wrote a post about the dangers...

July 8, 2012: Health Alert Regarding Fasting And Heat
Comments: 45 | Categories: Halakha , Med-Ethics
Halakha may forbid you from fasting – and you might not even know it. Today is one of several annual minor fasts that commemorate incidents that eventually led to the destruction of the First Temple (a.k.a., Solomon’s Temple, the Jerusalem...

June 29, 2012: Modern Orthodox Lies
Comments: 75 | Categories: Ethics , Halakha , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
Rabbi Shlomo Brody, a Harvard grad who is the online editor of the Modern Orthodox journal Tradition and a teacher at Yeshivat Hakotel in Jerusalem, lies about Jewish law's position on breaking Shabbat law in order to save the life...

June 25, 2012: When Orthodox Jews Don’t Know The Halakha They Seek To Follow…
Comments: 90 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
A tow-truck driver delivered a Jewish baby yesterday when the baby’s father, an Orthodox Jew, wouldn’t touch his wife for "religious reasons" and instead stood on an East Harlem street and tried to flag down passing drivers. The New York...

May 20, 2012: As Abuse Scandal Widens, A Defense Of Chabad
Comments: 54 | Categories: Chabad , Crime, etc. , Halakha , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
While he did not defend Rabbi Groner's alleged actions, Aron told Haaretz: "It's a great shame his legacy is being besmirched in this way. It was a different era back then. In those days he thought that sending him [the...

April 6, 2012: Passover Hasidic OCD Syndrome
Comments: 31 | Categories: Chabad , Halakha , Haredim , Israel
"Everything is hametz. A matza has been forgotten for a moment on the table? Hametz! Haroset with wine in korekh [the so-called "Hillel sandwich" of matza, bitter herbs and haroset eaten during the seder]? Hametz! Very strictly kosher for Passover...

March 21, 2012: Don't Stop Praying When Missile Alert Siren Sounds, Haredi Rabbi Says
Comments: 68 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics
"The halacha rules that if a snake is wrapped around a man's heels while he is reciting the Shemoneh Esrei prayer, he mustn't move. Yet if a scorpion is wrapped around his heels – he must run, for a scorpion...

March 6, 2012: NY Times Discovers Shabbat Elevators
Comments: 22 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Religion
The Times discovers Shabbat elevators exist, but incorrectly thinks the reason regular elevators are prohibited on Shabbat is because they make sparks or fire. The New York Times discovers Shabbat elevators, but gets the reason why regular elevators are (for...

February 28, 2012: Modern Orthodox Rabbis And Women Scholars Join To Decide Halakha For Women
Comments: 23 | Categories: Halakha , MO & Chardal , Women & Judaism
Beit Hillel was formed to counter the increasingly hard line that rabbis in the religious Zionist community are taking against women in official religious roles. The group’s formation paves the way for Jewish legal positions formulated by women to be...

February 20, 2012: With A Beard And A Shtreimel, Santorum Would Be The Perfect Israeli Haredi Politician
Comments: 19 | Categories: Current Affairs , Halakha , Religion
What saves America from the imposition of religious edicts in the public sphere is its two-party, winner take all political system. Imagine, though, that America also had a proportional system, with a staunchly social-democratic and dovish Democratic Party on the...

February 17, 2012: Israel Changes Organ Transplant Policy To Exclude Haredim And Others Who Refuse To Donate Organs
Comments: 77 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Israel , Med-Ethics
In 2005, he had two ultra-Orthodox, Haredi Jewish patients on his ward who were awaiting heart transplants. The patients confided in him that they would never consider donating organs, in accordance with Haredi Jewish beliefs, but that they had absolutely...

February 13, 2012: Worms In Canned Fish Found Kosher By DNA Anaysis
Comments: 18 | Categories: Halakha , Kosher Scandal , MO & Chardal
Are the worms now found in many canned sardines kosher? Can the sardines be eaten as is? DNA has provided the answer. The OU brought samples of canned sardines to a parasitologist at the American Museum of Natural History to...

January 26, 2012: How A Rabbinic Ban On Bugs May Have Led To The Creation Of Christianity
Comments: 67 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , History , MO & Chardal , Religion
“From a Torah perspective, eating a Big Mac or eating a salad with insects in it, the salad is worse,” Rabbi Eliezer Eidlitz, who runs the nonprofit Kosher Information Bureau said. The cost of kosher-grown lettuce is markedly higher than...

January 19, 2012: Chabad Rabbi Bans Tap Water On Shabbat
Comments: 97 | Categories: Chabad , Halakha , Haredim , Israel
One of the most respected Chabad authorities on kosher food, who is also the chief rabbi of a haredi city in Israel, has banned the use of tap water on Shabbat. The correct spelling of the rabbi's name is Landau....

January 17, 2012: Why Did Israel's Chief Rabbis Ban Häagen Dazs?
Comments: 56 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Israel , Kosher Scandal
Israel's Chief Rabbinate has banned Häagen Dazs ice cream, claiming the product is not kosher, even though the product sold today is the same as the product sold one year ago or two years ago when the Rabbinate approved it...

January 10, 2012: Torah Mi Christopher Hitchens
Comments: 87 | Categories: Divre Torah , Halakha , Kosher Scandal
What Christopher Hitchens taught me, yours truly, about Jewish law and pork. The noted half-Jewish atheist, who died in December, may have uncovered the answer to one of the Torah's greatest mysteries – why aren't pigs kosher? Christopher Hitchens Smell...

January 8, 2012: 541-Year-Old Jewish Prayer Book Shows Women Can Be Equal
Comments: 32 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , History , Women & Judaism
A siddur from 1471 has revealed an early example of egalitarian Jewish prayer, presenting historical attempts to battle gender inequality. “This Siddur proves that the degrading attitudes towards women, which we are seeing in certain extreme religious communities in Israel...

October 16, 2011: Right Wing Rabbis Issue "Halakhic Manifesto" Against Shalit Deal
Comments: 42 | Categories: Halakha , Israel , MO & Chardal , Terrorism
Two notoriously extreme and racist Orthodox Zionist rabbis, Dov Lior and Shmuel Eliyahu, came out against the deal to ransom kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Rabbis Dov Lior, left, and Shmuel Eliyahu, right Rabbis share 'halachic manifesto' against Shalit deal...

September 19, 2011: Agudah Spokesman: Haredi Rabbi Convicted Of Fraud Who Refuses To Give Government Information About Co-Conspirators "Selfless," "Principled," "Laudable"
Comments: 30 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Halakha , Haredim
"A common misconception about chillul Hashem is that it includes anything that is looked down upon by people. But for something to qualify as chillul Hashem it must first be a sin; and the fulfillment of an obligation" – like...

September 11, 2011: 9-11 And The Freeing Of World Trade Center Agunot
Comments: 37 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , MO & Chardal , Sefardim , Women & Judaism
Normally I agree with Allan Nadler. I find his insight into the history of what we now call haredism and the problems non-hasidic haredim from the Gaon of Vilna to Rav Schach had with the hasidic movement to be important...

August 28, 2011: Spring Valley Man Killed, Child Critically Injured, By Downed Power Line
Comments: 56 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , Med-Ethics
The man was apparently trying to rescue his son, who was being electrocuted by a downed power line. According to Agudath Israel of America: 5. If someone sees a power line fall and it poses a danger can one contact...

August 28, 2011: Hurricane Halakha
Comments: 8 | Categories: Halakha
What should you do when disaster strikes? It's Shabbat (the Sabbath). You have your stove on covered by a blech (a metal plate that covers the burners and the controls, and on which food is placed before Shabbat to keep...

July 24, 2011: Cops Or No Cops? Rabbi David Zwiebel On Reporting Child Sexual Abuse
Comments: 41 | Categories: Crime, etc. , Halakha , Haredim , Pedophilia & Related Crimes
The executive vice president of Agudath Israel of America tried to explain Agudah's position – which he calls the position of the "gedolei haposkim" – on reporting child sexual abuse. Here's the skinny on what Rabbi Zwiebel says is the...

June 22, 2011: Texting On Shabbat By The Orthodox And Haredim Becomes Epidemic – Are Rabbis At Fault?
Comments: 143 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , MO & Chardal
The practice has become so widespread – some say half of Modern Orthodox teens text on Shabbat – that it has developed its own nomenclature – keeping “half Shabbos,” for those who observe all the Shabbat regulations except for texting;...

April 22, 2011: Guest Post: Humrot Are Destroying Authentic Tradition
Comments: 24 | Categories: Guest Posts , Halakha , Haredim , History
As we plough through yet another year of Ashkenazi humrot and the self-denial of not touching corn, rice, pulses and apparently, now also quinoa, it is worth reflecting that not all humrot are accomplished in the doing. Some are even...

April 8, 2011: Rabbi Elyashiv Forbids Soft Matzoh – Or Does He?
Comments: 25 | Categories: Halakha , Haredim , History
Meanwhile, a source in Australia managed to get me a copy of a letter sent to the Australian Jewish News early Friday morning Australia time by the rabbi who supervises Australia's soft matzoh production: Dear Sir, I submit the following...

March 29, 2011: Rabbi Hershal Schachter Approves Soft Matzoh For Ashkenazim
Comments: 51 | Categories: Halakha
There is no custom that restricts Ashkenazim to eating hard Matza. Although Ashkenazim have eaten hard matzoh for many years, the practice has the same significance as the practice of making parochet of blue material rather than of red or...

March 25, 2011: Turning Off Car Alarm Overrides Shabbat, Rabbi Says
Comments: 21 | Categories: Halakha , Israel , MO & Chardal
Alarm went off on Shabbat? Rabbi Yuval Sherlo has a solution:The head of the Petah Tikva Hesder yeshiva and one of the leading rabbis in the religious-Zionist community has ruled that for the public's welfare it is acceptable to turn...

March 14, 2011: Drinking On Purim: Another View
Comments: 9 | Categories: Halakha , History
Purim is associated with public drunkenness, and it would seem that getting drunk is mandated by halakha. Yet many rabbis prohibit it. Why? What is the source of this dichotomy? On Purim we are supposed to drink so much that...

March 13, 2011: Purim, Drinking And Drunkenness
Comments: 26 | Categories: Chabad , Halakha , Haredim , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
More rabbis than ever have called for bans on teen drinking during Purim and also have condemned the practice of certain outlier sects who would encourage drinking to the point of vomiting on Main Street. Judaism despises drunkenness. Drinking does...

February 20, 2011: Why Rabbi Moshe Feinstein Was Right About Abortion Law – And Why Pro-Life Activists Are Wrong
Comments: 76 | Categories: Current Affairs , Halakha , Med-Ethics
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, the leading rabbinic adjudicator of Jewish law during the latter half of the 20th century, strongly opposed abortion on demand. But he also opposed laws limiting abortion. Here's why. The Pitts bill, called the Protect Life Act,...

December 21, 2010: More Evidence Of RCA Lies
Comments: 12 | Categories: Halakha , Med-Ethics , MO & Chardal
The RCA continues to cover up the facts of brain stem death. Spoke With Rabbi Feinstein Tuesday, December 21, 2010 Frank J. Veith • New York Jewish Week Although I am not Jewish, I met with Rabbi Moshe Feinstein in...

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