Rabbi Boruch Meir Levin, shlit”a; Dayan Bais HaVaad When parents wish to opt out of a camp they enrolled their child in, the first thing to do is try and determine if the slot can be replaced. When the slot…
With the recent demonstrations in Hong Kong protesting the Chinese government, this week’s article will focus on the right (or duty) of revolution, and explore some of the halachic perspectives on democracy. The Right (Or Duty) Of Revolution A strikingly…
Keeping Halacha in space By: Rav Yosef Fund, Posek for the Bais HaVaad, Lakewood Spacing In A recent news article reported that Virgin Galactic announced their first commercial spaceflight, planned for later this year, establishing a precedent for other…
Adapted from a shiur by Rav Yosef Greenwald The leaven that left A man we’ll call Dovid was traveling two months ago with whiskey in his luggage. The airline lost the bag. Weeks went by. Pesach came and went. Last…
By: Rav Avraham Yeshaya Cohen, Posek at The Bais HaVaad and Rosh Kollel Ohel Yitzchok Lakewood The Magen Avraham writes in the name of the Zohar that chasidim harishonim (early pious Jews) would stay up the entire night of Shavuos…
Rabbi Yosef Jacobovits The Halachas of Tumah In Contemporary Times A Kohen’s Purity: Parshas Emor deals with numerous laws of ritual purity that apply specifically to a kohen. While many of these laws are not applicable today, the very first…
Adapted from a shiur by Rav Yosef Greenwald Selling for Tashbisu Mechiras chametz, the sale of chametz to a gentile before Pesach to avoid violating bal yeira’eh uval yimatzai, appears in the Mishna and Tosefta. But for most of Jewish…
Adapted from a shiur by Rav Daniel Dombroff Is Boeing liable for the doomed 737 Max? The world’s largest aircraft manufacturer was in crisis. The 737, Boeing’s workhorse aircraft, had been selling briskly since 1967. The company was working on…
As heard from Rav Dovid Shlomo Englander The tomb of the unknown Four men have been arraigned in Yerushalayim’s Magistrates’ Court on charges of desecration of graves and fraud. The defendants stand accused of robbing decades-old graves in order to…
Adapted from a shiur by Rav Daniel Dombroff Whose oil is it? Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world, estimated in 2017 at 300 million barrels. But its people are starving. No war or…