Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman February 1, 2024 Yeshiva World News reports: HaRav Yehudah Aryeh Dinner, rav of central Bnei Brak and a renowned posek, was recently asked an interesting sheilah by IDF soldiers stationed in Gaza.…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman January 25, 2024 AP reports: A New York midwife who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined $300,000, the state’s health department announced this week. Jeanette…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman January 18, 2024 Our previous article introduced some basic Torah perspectives on plagiarism; here, we cite additional discussions of plagiarism and consider some questions about the necessity of citation in particular scenarios.…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman January 11, 2024 AP News reports: Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman January 4, 2024 In the previous article, we discussed whether a customer is liable for shipped merchandise that is lost or stolen en route. We considered whether the customer is responsible for…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman December 28, 2023 The increase in online purchases at this time of year brings a concomitant uptick in incidents of “porch piracy,” in which a delivered package is stolen from the doorstep…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman December 21, 2023 Business Insider reports: An anti-abortion group says it will pay three women $9,460 after a Business Insider investigation found it failed to give them the payments it promised in…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman December 14, 2023 VINnews reports: Recently, two sincere, ehrlicheh Jews had a friendly dispute to resolve. While playing baseball, one of the men was dashing across home plate and collided with the…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman December 7, 2023 Four days after Hamas’s Shmini Atzeres massacre, Ynet reported: Following Ynet’s report that terrorists are hospitalized in public hospitals alongside Israelis wounded in the war, Health Minister Moshe Arbel…
Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman November 30, 2023 Business Insider reports: In 2011, Randall Atkins, a former Wall Street banker, bought a mine outside of Sheridan, Wyoming, sight unseen, the Wall Street Journal reported. Originally, the plan…