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• 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…

• Rabbi David Weiss Halivni @ 90
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/03/rabbi-david-weiss-halivni-90/

  …this man, whose son is so learned, whose reputation for greatness so dazzling, and whose voluminous Talmudic research has set the agenda of Talmudic scholarship to this day? Born in…

• Parshat Bechukotai – “Et Tu?”
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parshat-bechukotai-et-tu/

  …[3]. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%AA [4]. I found this occurrence in about 5 minutes using a Bar Ilan search. Rashi had to do a manual search through all 24 books in the Tanach….

• Reactions To Rabbi Gradofsky’s Response Regarding Telephonic Megillah Reading
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2020/03/reactions-to-rabbi-gradofskys-response-regarding-telephonic-megillah-reading/

  …and possessing the learning, courage, and integrity to seek the absolute “truth” as a finite, mortal human being in search of the Numinous Ding en sich, the “thing-in-itself,” to approximate…

• Ekev – Renewing Classical Debates in Judaism
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-ekev/

  …all be privileged to continue the search for a balance between Torah and livelihood, between engaging in society and protecting our beliefs. May the search for this balance in our…

• Gratuitous Piety is False Piety
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2026/08/gratuitous-piety-is-false-piety/

  …or chicks; the commandment does not oblige or prescribe that one search for nests to confiscate in order to fulfill this commandment. Significantly, the “if” [=ki] that also opens the…

• The Abortion Debate: What Exactly is at Stake?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2022/06/the-abortion-debate-what-exactly-is-at-stake/

  …or not to carry her pregnancy to term. A draft of a Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was penned by the politically conservative Associate Justice Samuel Alito. Roe…

• What is a Legitimate Opinion, and What is at Stake in the Conversation
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/what-is-a-legitimate-opinion-and-what-is-at-stake-in-the-conversation/

  …the authors of the piyyut liturgy were “gedolei Yisroel,” “the great one’s of Israel,” a term that as we contend confers upon its bearer the valence of implicit covenantal canonicity…

• Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-vayakhel-pekudei/

  In an unusual locution, the outer altar upon which the sacrifices are offered is called by the Torah Kodesh Kodashim, holy of holies. Previously, the term “holy of holies” was…

• Parashat Beha’alotekha: As Long as the Candle is Burning
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parashat-behaalotekha-as-long-as-the-candle-is-burning/

  …of our Torah reading, Rashi notes that the Torah does not use the conventional term for lighting the menorah (le-hadlik) but the less common term leha’alot (to cause to rise)….

• Height of a Mehitzah
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/height-of-a-mehitzah/

  …must be higher than the usual meaning of this term taken from Sabbath law. His conclusion is that it should be shoulder height when the women are standing. The basis…

• Omer Observances: Appropriate Abstinence or Excessive Restraint?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/04/omer-observances/

  …the restrictions ending vis a vis haircutting, but intends both issues. – Regarding haircuts, the language used is “להסתפר,” which generally is not a term used to refer to shaving…