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• The Kashrut of Laboratory Produced Meat
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/the-kashrut-of-laboratory-produced-meat/

  …be on supermarket shelves in 2013. But that year has passed without the expected results. The European Union has invested millions of dollars in research and development into this track…

• What is the Problem With Baruch Spinoza?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2022/12/what-is-the-problem-with-baruch-spinoza/

  …term that rings oxymoronic to some if not most Orthodox readers. Cardozo is not blind to Spinoza’s shortcomings. He finds in Spinoza’s thought an intellectual arrogance, and that Spinoza’s thought…

• Yom Kippur – Her Lips Moved, But Her Voice Was Not Heard: What The Physical Elements of Jewish Prayer Teach Us About Our Relationship With God
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/yom-kippur-her-lips-moved-but-her-voice-was-not-heard-what-the-physical-elements-of-jewish-prayer-teach-us-about-our-relationship-with-god/

  …seems to have been a deliberate attempt by many of the Talmudic rabbis to limit the bowing ritual, both in terms of its frequency and in terms of how emphatically…

• Rosh Hashanah: Choosing Life or Self-Censorship: Shmirat Halashon In the 21st Century
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/rosh-hashanah-choosing-life-or-self-censorship-shmirat-halashon-in-the-21st-century/

  …Coming from “cerebro,” meaning the brain and atmosphere, according to the hilarious “Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook,”[1] this is the politically correct term for an “airhead.” Other entertaining entries…

• Rosh Hashanah: MicroMitzvot
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/rosh-hashanah-micromitzvot/

  …needs, one of the latest buzzwords is the term “microloan,” small loans designed to help people get on their feet and spark their economic potential. Today, I am advocating for…

• Professor Barry Wimpfheimer Remembers Rabbi Halivni
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2022/08/professor-barry-wimpfheimer-remembers-rabbi-halivni/

  …I had the Bar Ilan Responsa CD burned onto my hard drive, and I could perform sophisticated word searches of the Talmud. Students would sometimes ask the type of question…

• HaChodesh – Those Were the Days
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/hachodesh-those-were-the-days/

  …the Torah as well. Confronting personal and national history often requires us to come to terms with ‘the good old days’, when the truth of yesterday can be obscured by…

• The Adoption of Non-Jewish Children
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/the-adoption-of-non-jewish-children/

  …as an institution. In fact, as Rabbi Louis Ginzberg points out (Students. Scholars. and Saints, Philadelphia, 1928, p. 123), the modern Hebrew term for adoption (imutz) does not appear in…

• Being Single In A Marriage-Obsessed Community Is Tough — Whether You’re Jewish, Muslim Or Mormon
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/press/being-single-marriage-obsessed-community/

  …the term ‘shidduch crisis’ is used to describe a surplus of single community members. “I find that term deeply offensive,” said Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, executive director of JOFA, whose Facebook…

• Shoftim – What Does Halakhah Mean?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/shoftim-what-does-halakhah-mean/

  …halakhah.[5] He noted that while the term certainly has some sense of fixture, the term “boundary” also provided for the possibility of a range of options within those boundaries. I…

• Yom Kippur – All I Really Need To Know I Learned from Coach Kozak
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/yom-kippur-everything-i-ever-needed-to-know-i-learned-from-coach-kozak/

  …we hear a lot about. We often talk about kavanah in terms of prayer and, at least for me, I have tended to think about it in terms of how…

• Treatment of AIDS Patients
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  …26b; for a historical analysis of this term, see Avraham Schwartz, Otzar Yisrael). Both RaShI (ad locum) and Maimonides (Laws of Murderers 10: 12) interpret this to refer to one…