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The Jewish View On Brain Death, Organ Donation

The Jewish Week reports Jan. 11, 2011: Faced with two well-founded positions of Jewish law on when death occurs for the purpose of organ donations, the country’s major Modern Orthodox rabbinic group has similarly ruled that both brain-stem death and … Continue reading

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Did Women Pray In Ancient Times?

In a 2009 lecture on Rabbi Avraham Shapira, Rabbi Marc B. Shapiro says: Don’t think that women didn’t pray [with the Jewish prayer book] before modern times. Daniel Sperber has a whole chapter on women’s prayer groups. I’m assuming that … Continue reading

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