Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman January 28, 2021 In the first article in this series on prioritization of scarce medical resources, we mentioned R’ Avraham Sofer-Abraham’s belief that physicians tend to follow a rule of first come,…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman January 21, 2021 Technology executive Alan Levine has a provocative proposal: Let the ultra-rich and influential skip the line for COVID-19 vaccines? Hear me out…Have the wealthiest and most influential Americans donate…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman January 14, 2021 The previous two articles in this series set forth the basic rules established by Chazal and the poskim for the prioritization of scarce medical resources and lifesaving help in…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman   Our previous article introduced the halachic framework used to determine the prioritization schedule when allocating limited medical resources. As discussed there, one of the key rules is that a patient whose…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman December 31, 2020 With distribution of the scarce COVID-19 vaccines now underway, prioritization decisions have been made by various authorities: some eminently reasonable, others rather less so, and some quite dubious. In…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman December 24, 2020 The 2020 presidential election set a record for the online betting dollars it attracted. While U.S. laws proscribe gambling on election outcomes, offshore websites have happily taken up the…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman December 17, 2020 Last week’s article concerned the declaration of a number of New York State law enforcement officials that enforcing Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s rule limiting gatherings in private homes to  ten…

A doubt about a flout Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman December 10, 2020 Before Thanksgiving, a number of county sheriffs in New York State declared that they would not enforce Governor Andrew Cuomo’s rule limiting gatherings in…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman December 3, 2020 All’s well that ends well Last week’s article on electoral corruption discussed a community election that had become the subject of explosive charges of rampant vote buying, in which…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman November 26. 2020 The recent presidential election was the United States’ most controversial since 2000. Though the media projected early on that Joe Biden was the winner of the contest, President Trump…