What’s the Minimum I Need to Pray in the Morning?
How to Pray the Essentials: A Halakhic Morning Guide Real life is a bit more complicated than our imagination. You wake up late. Or the
Rabbi Jeremy Markiz
How to Pray the Essentials: A Halakhic Morning Guide Real life is a bit more complicated than our imagination. You wake up late. Or the
Zmanim, halakhic times, divide the Jewish day. They determine and inform when we can perform Jewish activities. On Friday evenings, there is a time to
In asking the question “Are we allowed to wear weapons on Shabbat?”, we can explore a rabbinic controversy between fashion and ferocity.
What is the halakhic and Jewish ethical status of consuming, possessing, and selling cannabis for both medical and recreational purposes?
If medicine is not food, why should there be any restrictions on taking it during Pesah? The question arises because although medicine is not food,
Why is electricity such a complicated issue when it comes to Shabbat? What are the considerations? How can I learn more about it?
חווינו אחד מן האסונות הגדולים ביותר בתולדות המדינה, ומאז, כיצד ראוי לחגוג את שמחת תורה בשנת תשפ״ה?
With the ongoing tragedy of October 7th and the ongoing hostage situation and war, how do we appropriately celebrate Simchat Torah in 5785?
Can we do work and labor on Tisha B’av? What role do our emotions play in that? The Medieval posek Terumat HaDeshen has an answer.
Are non-kosher animals permitted for organ transplants? Rabbi Shai Cherry explains the recent teshuvah from the CJLS.
In a recent teshuvah, the CJLS answers the question, “what is the Jewish status of a child born using a gestational carrier?”
A solar eclipse is certainly a unique natural event that causes us to ponder our place in the universe. What blessing do I recite?
What does Judaism say about environmental sustainability? Yishuv Ha’olam is the mitzvah to build and maintain a sustainable world.
In a written teshuvah, Rabbi Jane Kanarek explains the answer to the question, “Should women and girls wear a headcovering?”
This CJLS teshuva explores where and when a tallit should be worn on the bimah. This also addresses women wearing tallitot.
An overview of what Judaism says about abortion based on the decisions and analysis of the Rabbinical Assembly.
When should we use a non-fasting sh”tz on Yom Kippur? This CJLS teshuvah, originally written by Rabbi Gail Labovitz, explains.
Halakha can be used for the assessment of risk; this can be relevant for pikuach nefesh (saving a life) or kashrut.
Rabbi Max L. Forman z”‘ wrote: “the formulation of a dynamic approach to Jewish law; not to a corpus or platform, but to a methodology.”
When speaking about family, there is a wide variety of opinions and also a variety of obligations of parents, situations and relationships.
Rabbi Barmash’s new teshuvah empowers women and infuses the rites of marriage and divorce with more equality and dignity for both partners.
While writing a teshuvah on changing our language for aliyot to kohenet from bat kohen, Rabbi David J Fine, PhD, reflects on egalitarianism.
How my family created and passed down cultural traditions, and how the Conservative Teshuvah on Kitniyot impacts our life outside the academy.
When is the earliest time that we can begin observing Jewish festivals, on first or second day of Yom Tov, in particular, the Passover seder?
The halakhah does not generally permit autopsies, due to honoring the dead. However, there are two important exceptions to that rule.
According to a well-known custom, drinking—and drinking to excess—on Purim is required for Jews celebrating the holiday. What is the origin of this custom? Are Jews really required to get drunk on Purim?
Being called to Torah is a moment of sacred encounter. Here’s how to call Non-Binary Jews to the Torah based on the CJLS Teshuvah in 2022.
In the early medieval period, it became customary for Ashkenazi Jews to not eat a category of foods called kitniyot. What are they?