Halacha Headlines

What brings on “at risk” behavior? Once leaving Yeshivah, what can get someone off-track? Are schools to blame? Parents? Does teaching Emunah help or is it risky? Is there anything we can do to prevent adults at risk? 

Timely Messages and Torah for Pesach During Corona

Cleaning for Pesach churros, kitniyos, tziruf liminyan, Kaddish and kriyas hatorah, Amazon Warehouses, tevilas keilim, hallel Pesach night, haircuts during sefirah, kedimah for ventilators and treatment, chasuanah less than a minyan

Paying playgroups and tuitions, deposits on hotels for Pesach and chasunos, mikvah and tevilas keilim, taanis bechorim, mattir kitniyos, selling chametz gamur and over phone, autopsies, Milah and metzizah b’peh, b eing moser on those not following govt guidelines

Minyan, mikvah, maaros, yotzei over phone, mesirah, rodeph, medical precedence, messages HKB”H is sending us, and much more…

Can you travel to Eretz Yisroel? Kissing a Sefer Torah? Doing Bikkur Cholim? Shaking hands? Going to hear Parshas Zachor or hearing the Megillah in shul? Adam hamazek? And much more…

What are valid reasons to expel a student?  Doing drugs? Selling drugs? Tznius? Having a Smartphone?  Unfiltered Internet at home?  Torching the principal’s van? What happens when a student is expelled? How should it be handled by parents, teachers, the principal and others? What if your child is being negatively influenced by a classmate?

Listen to the fiery debate!!!

Should sons and sons in law be the Yoresh of a Chassidus, a Yeshiva, a Rabbanus, or should the Yoresh be the most qualified to replace? When did it change in our Yeshivos? What to do in a family business? Severance pay to children, and much more…

Are different types of alternative medicines permitted in halacha? Are holistic approaches more “Jewish”? Are hospital births safer or more dangerous than non-hospital births? and much more… 

What did our forefathers do before lightboxes loops and microscopes? Can you use triple washed lettuce without a hechsher? Are these issues D’oraysa or D’rabanan? How much effort should we be putting into this?

Coed dorms, bathrooms and classes; frats, drinking, and OTD risk; “orthodox” Jews mixed dancing parties at night and Shacharis the next morning; rampant anti-Semitism; extreme liberalism and Kefirah – is there any Heter? Are the Ivy League Schools worse than Brooklyn and Queens colleges? How does the situation in the U.S. compare to that of the U.K., South Africa and Australia?    

Can a Frum Jew become a doctor? Can a Kohein become a doctor? What are some of the many Halachic challenges they face?  Giving stitches on Shabbos, Working in a Hospital on Shabbos, and many more  practical applications…

How to insure against the horrors of divorce or being left an aguna: The new Prenuptial that has the Haskamos of Gedolei HaPoskim. Horror Agunah stories  that  prenups  would have helped. Is it a forced Get? Do they actually work? Can it solve the Agunah crisis?

E-commerce, Amira L’Akum, Schar Shabbos, Contracts and Partnerships

Why are “quick divorces” happening? What’s a good reason to get divorced quickly? Is “incompatibility” enough? What needs to be disclosed while dating? Addictions, mental disorders, abuse? How should references respond to Shidduch inquiries?

Is a Frum boy winning at Jeopardy a Kiddush Hashem? Israel sending aid to Haiti? Rallies for Rubashkin? An astronaut making Kiddush in outer space? Is Jewish success and or nationalism a Kiddush Hashem? Is learning in Kollel?  And many more examples

Can one go to court when faced with a corrupt Toen or Beis Din? Should we allow Toanim in Beis Din? Is the system in Eretz Yisroel the correct model?

Why are there so many broken engagements nowadays? How can they be avoided? Does the one who breaks the shidduch get penalized? Do the ring, sheitel and other gifts need to be returned? Who pays the costs which were committed to (wedding hall, photographer, band, make-up artist)? Does the Shadchan need to return the Shadchanus?

Is there an affordable way to go to Beis Din? How do outcomes and costs compare to the court system? How to identify a reputable Beis Din vs. a rouge Beis Din…

Is it good or is it putting women’s lives at risk?

Is it ever Muttar to fire a Rav, a Rebbi or employee? Non competes, Contracts, Severance, How to hire employees, and much more…