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…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman November 19, 2020 Our previous article surveyed rabbinic opinion of a century ago, when the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the vote, on the question of female suffrage. We…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman November 12, 2020 This year is the centennial of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the…
How imminent must a threat be to be considered pikuach nefesh? Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman November 5, 2020 Our previous article introduced the question posed to R’ Asher Weiss by a researcher working to develop a…
How imminent must a threat be to be considered pikuach nefesh? Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman October 29, 2020 R’ Asher Weiss was asked by a physician and researcher at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan who was…
What qualities are desirable in a judge? Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman October 22, 2020 The drama of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court associate justice seat of the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman October 15, 2020 U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away several weeks ago. She was a cultural icon on the left, largely because of her stalwart liberalism and feminism…
By Dayan Yehoshua Grunwald October 1, 2020 This guide is intended to serve as a basic primer on what to seek and what to avoid in an esrog. It is not a comprehensive treatment of the subject. When in doubt…
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