Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman August 4, 2022 The Washington Post reports: Russia’s threat to shut down a prominent Jewish organization has stoked fears among Jews planning to leave the country because of its war against Ukraine, while…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman July 29, 2022 Our previous article discussed the fundamental dispute between R’ Yosef Shaul Natanson, who asserts that it is self-evident that authors and inventors have exclusive rights to their work, and…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman July 21, 2022 Reuters reports: CureVac has filed a patent lawsuit in Germany against BioNTech over its use of mRNA technology, marking one of the first known cases of a company going…

What does it take to terminate an employee? Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman July 14, 2022 The New York Times reports: SpaceX, the private rocket company, on Thursday fired employees who helped write and distribute an open…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman July 7, 2022 In U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion in Dobbs. v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (the Supreme Court’s recent historic ruling overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman July 1, 2022 Our previous article explained that while halacha does excoriate and and even prohibit, at least in certain contexts, price gouging (increasing prices to a level much higher than is…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman June 23, 2022 Jury selection recently began for the third federal trial of executives from Pilgrim’s Pride and Claxton Poultry Farms, whom the U.S. Justice Department has accused of conspiring to keep…

The significance of a perpetrator’s purpose Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman June 10, 2022   Several months ago, we discussed Sarah Palin’s defeat in her libel lawsuit against The New York Times, which hinged on whether former…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman June 2, 2022   Our previous article discussed the halachic enforceability of the mutual breakup fees in Elon Musk’s agreement with Twitter to purchase the company, in light of the principle that…

Adapted from the writings of Dayan Yitzhak Grossman May 26, 2022   Weeks after signing a contract to purchase Twitter for $44,000,000,000, Elon Musk tweeted on May 13: Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts…