I had a vague recollection of a pesak by Rav Scheinberg z”l on “shopping” for a pesak halakhah. A little searching on the internet found the source. The following is from the book Divrei Ḥachamim, p. 290. Trans.: I heard in the name of Hagaon Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, that there is no prohibition to [...]
Borrowed from the Legal Theory Blog: The Jewish Law Association is now accepting applications from graduate students, law students, and other emerging scholars, to participate on a plenary panel at the 17th International Conference of the JLA, which will be held at Yale Law School on July 30-August 2, 2012. The goal of the panel [...]
The video below is from the panel discussion, Stanley Fish and Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik on Law, Interpretation, and Truth from 2010. The panel featured Stanley Fish, Daniel Rynhold, and William Kolbrener.
Today at the Academy for Jewish Religion we had a conference on Patrilineal Descent in a Pluralistic Community. There are plans for the presentations to be uploaded to Youtube and when that happens I’ll link to them. In the meantime see Rabbi Lenny Levin’s proposal Purification of All Jews (and Incidentally Patrilineals). I responded to [...]
As featured in Monday’s Makor Rishon. Halakhah Halftime Sources
Rabbi Dov Linzer has an op-ed in today’s New York Times about modesty. The Talmud, the foundation of Jewish law, acknowledges that men can be sexually aroused by women and is indeed concerned with sexual thoughts and activity outside of marriage. But it does not tell women that men’s sexual urges are their responsibility. Rather, [...]
Coming soon from Brill: Seride Teshuvot-A Descriptive Catalogue of Responsa Fragments from the Jacques Mosseri Collection Cambridge University Library. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series Volume 3
Hebrewbooks continues to dazzle us all. Their latest upload includes the volumes of the important rabbinic journal Noam. Yishar Koach!
At Text and Texture Rabbi Shlomo Brody has a very nice post about “Rabbi Joseph Karo’s Shulchan Aruch and Magid Mesharim.” (hat tip)
David Ellenson and Daniel Gordis will give a lecture about their soon to be released book, Pledges of Jewish Allegiance: Conversion, Law, and Policymaking in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Orthodox Responsa , on January 19, 2012 at the Skirball Center for Adult Jewish Learning at Temple Emanu-El, One East 65th Street, New York, NY.
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