Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman September 10, 2020 During the recent hostilities between Israel and Hamas, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz threatened to respond to attacks by striking not just “buildings and targets, but also those operating…
May judges judge their friends? Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman August 27, 2020 A coalition of nine progressive groups has released a statement calling on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to recuse himself from an upcoming case…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman August 5, 2020 The Mishnah relates: Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel said: There were no days as joyous for the Jewish people as the fifteenth of Av and Yom Kippur, on which…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman July 29, 2020 On July 19, a man knocked at the door of the New Jersey home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas. When the door was opened, he fired multiple shots,…
Why punish wrongdoing? Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman July 23, 2020 One of the fundamental issues raised by the fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks (as well as by the recent federal execution, the first in seventeen…
Was the Rayshard Brooks shooting justified? Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman July 16, 2020 Last week's article on the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks by Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe discussed the self-defense defense—the law of rodef,…
In pursuit of the self-defense defense Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman July 9, 2020 Last week, in discussing the fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks by Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, we addressed the liability of a government…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman July 2, 2020 On June 12, Atlanta Police Department officers Garrett Rolfe and Devin Brosnan were attempting to handcuff Rayshard Brooks and arrest him for driving while under the influence of alcohol.…
Need we beware the strides of march? Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman June 25, 2020 For the past several weeks, the United States has experienced widespread protests, as well as rioting and looting. In this article, we…
