Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman December 5, 2024 In our previous article, we cited R’ Moshe Feinstein’s teshuvah on the permissibility of playing ball (in an unspecified sport) in light of the danger involved.[1] In another teshuvah,…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman November 28, 2024 The Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) reports: Sam Salz’s first taste of NCAA Division I football came during a kickoff—known in football as a “special teams” play. For most football…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman November 21, 2024 AP News reports: Forty-three monkeys escaped from a compound used for medical research in South Carolina.[1] Most of the monkeys have since been recaptured: Just eight monkeys remain free…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman November 14, 2024 The question of who keeps the ring after a broken engagement has been wending its way through the Massachusetts courts. ...On Friday—seven years after the couple’s breakup—the Massachusetts Supreme…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman November 7, 2024 Our previous article discussed whether a museum exhibition of dead bodies or doing business in dead bodies violates either the prohibition to derive benefit from the dead or the…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman October 31, 2024 CNN reports: An auction house in England has withdrawn human remains, including shrunken heads and ancestral skulls, from sale following an outcry. The Swan auction house in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman October 16, 2024 In the previous article, we considered whether the basic halachic rules governing conflicts of interest (negiah) would require the judge in a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X Corp.…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman October 1, 2024 Following the presidential debate, Axios reported that prominent conservatives attacked ABC News debate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis for fact-checking the debate in real-time, arguing that they were…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman September 26, 2024 The Associated Press reports: A tech billionaire performed the first private spacewalk hundreds of miles above Earth on Thursday, a high-risk endeavor reserved for professional astronauts—until now. Tech entrepreneur…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman September 19, 2024 AP News reports: Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have issued a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public under new laws approved by the supreme leader in efforts to…