What the headline-making rabbinic showdown over online seders reveals about Jewish law and its limits.
Those with greater ability to help are called upon to bear greater risk.
“Keep your feet inside your house.”
Clean your houses, wash your hands, don’t eat pickles—and avoid crowds.
Kasti Delmedigo and the gold coins.
The dangers of the robot rabbi.
The case of the mixed-up sacrificial birds.
The product of a millennium of tension between law and folk tradition.
An old-new rabbinic debate.
A classic historical study explains why not.
The Torah permits plunder, but also disapproves.
From ancient tort laws to modern Israeli psychologists.
An expansion of freedom to follow halakhah, or a license to kill?