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• Lighting Shabbat Candles I

  
  Menachem Mendel — Authority: 422
  I have been teaching a course in which we are examining two different questions relating to the lighting of shabbat candles, whether a blessing is required and if the lighting of shabbat candles is considered kabbalat shabbat , i.e. if lighting shabbat candles initiates the accepting upon oneself of shabbat ...
  3 days ago

• Water Conservation Techniques – From Israel to the World

  
  Jews' Next Dor — Authority: 127
  The Jewish Law Student Association at Santa Clara University invites you to an evening exploring water conservation techniques. Water Conservation Techniques – From Israel to the World Monday, November 30, 2009 6:30pm – 8:30pm Santa Clara University – Room Kennedy 108 Thomas W. Hoekstra, PhD, ...
  4 days ago

• More Clashing of Worlds in Jerusalem

  
  OneJerusalem.com Israel News Blog Feed — Authority: 128
  Despite some violence and 1,500 ultra-Orthodox protesters, shouting”Shabes! Shabes!” Intel Corp. says that it has no plans of closing down their chip making factory in the industrial zone of Har Hotzvim on Shabbat. The protests were sparked by Intel’s opening of a new facility near the ultra-orthodox area; ...
  1 week ago

• Conference Paper on Gay and Lesbian Jews and Jewish Law

  
  Menachem Mendel — Authority: 422
  Last week I attended a conference, Religious Legal Theory: The State of the Field , at Seton Hall Law School . There were many interesting presentations. My talk was “Conservative Jewish Legal Decision Making and the Question of Gay and Lesbian Jews.” I tried to speak about some general characteristics of the ...
  1 week ago

• Michael Makovi responds to R. Michael Broyde

  
  Menachem Mendel — Authority: 422
  Michael Makovi has written a response to R. Michael Broyde’s critique of Tzvi Zohar and Avi Sagi’s book on conversion. I strongly recommend Makovi’s post for anyone who is remotely interested in the topic.
  1 week ago

• Can kosher food be treif? Posted by Rabbi Andrew Sacks

  
  The Jerusalem Post BlogCentral — Authority: 141
  Most laws of Kashrut (Jewish dietary law) are pretty straightforward. No pork, shellfish, or mixing milk and meat. Some are a bit more complicated. All of these laws are spelled out in the traditional Jewish codes.   There has always been some disagreement and controversy over certain products (e.g. swordfish, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jon Gosselin Goes Jewish With Rabbi Shmuley

  
  Popsquire — Authority: 526
  For today’s collision between pop culture and Jewish law, Jon Gosselin held a public forum at New York’s West Side Jewish Center over the weekend.With his new buddy, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, Jon discussed his divorce from Kate Gosselin as well as his relationship with Hailey Glassman.  He also asked for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Female Orthodox scholars helping women talk about sex

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 143
  JTA - Global News Service of the Jewish People By Dina Kraft · October 29, 2009 JERUSALEM (JTA) — With Shabbat fast approaching, the sun was beginning to melt in the Jerusalem sky when the phone rang in Noa Lau’s kitchen. On the line was a woman who spoke in a voice still raw from the grief ...
  3 weeks ago

• Not just about women

  
  Isramom — Authority: 411
  Mimi  ( probably with some help from Alice )    has given us an amazing Kosher Cooking Carnival post. Check it out! Now its official! Its not  legal to force women to sit in the back of the bus! Now it remains to be seen if this brings change.  ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Coen Brothers: Self-Hating Jews?

  
  Tikkun Olam — Authority: 465
  I received a comment to my last post which incensed me, and after writing a long rebuttal comment I decided just to run it as a post. Here it is (read that comment first). You say I think that Jews are not capable of Run of the mill buffoonery? Lust? Depression? Drug use? A penchant for petty thievery? ...
  4 weeks ago

• Rabbi Benny Lau and the Dor Revi’i

  
  Menachem Mendel — Authority: 422
  Rabbi Benny Lau reacts to this question, whether a man is permitted to hit his wife, by quoting the Dor Revi’i on morality. (Hebrew) Lau’s conclusion is while in the past this may have been a legitimate question and some Jewish authorities may have even answered in the affirmative, see here , today just ...
  4 weeks ago

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