Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman December 10, 2021 A letter to The Yeshiva World complains of “The Demented Deluxe Donut Craze”: I went to a local store and asked for a dozen of their upper-end donuts…and…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman December 2, 2021 Our previous two articles on parental alienation discussed the questions of whether the mitzvah of honoring parents applies when its fulfillment would entail great psychological pain for the…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman November 25, 2021 Our previous article on the subject of parental alienation discussed the rule that the mitzvah to honor one’s parents is generally limited to mishel av (from the father’s…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman November 18, 2021 Broken Ties, an organization for parents alienated from their children, recently held its second meeting in Lakewood.[1] The topic of parental alienation is an extremely contentious one, with…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman November 11, 2021 The town of Lakewood has recently experienced a spate of school bus accidents. On 15 Cheshvan/Oct. 21, there were two separate crashes involving school buses, which brought the…
May Government Impose Price Controls? Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman November 4, 2021 Our previous article on exorbitant drug pricing considered the issue primarily from the perspective of the drug companies, and we addressed a…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman October 28, 2021 Ars Technica reports: A storm is brewing over the pricing and licensing of Merck’s antiviral pill molnupiravir, which the pharmaceutical giant says can halve the risk of hospitalization…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman October 21, 2021 Among the questions that arose during and after President Biden’s total withdrawal from Afghanistan was whether and how the U.S. should cooperate with Afghanistan’s new government, given that…
A booster for me or a first dose for you? Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman October 14, 2021 As public health establishments around the world have been formulating their COVID-19 vaccine booster shot policies and…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman October 7, 2021 U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor recently warned an audience of law students about the frustration of having to write dissents: “There is going to be a…