Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman February 25, 2021 The Mishnah Berurah rules regarding matanos la’evyonim (the gifts to the poor that must be given on Purim): One must give the two gifts of his own (money),…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman February 18, 2021 Our previous article on the GameStop short selling controversy considered some halachic arguments against the legitimacy of short selling. Here we consider several additional arguments. Improper competition In the…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman February 11, 2021 Securities markets have recently been roiled by the wild gyrations of the stock price of the video game retailer GameStop (GME), which peaked in late January at more than…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman February 4, 2021 A dilemma often faced by medical professionals is whether to inform a terminally ill patient of his grim prognosis. The last century saw an evolution of American medical ethics…
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…