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Does Facebook Lead To Defamation?

Orthodox rabbi Gil Student blogs: In this week’s The Jewish Press, R. Mordechai Weiss writes [on page 25]: Then came Facebook and Twitter, which took the Internet to a new level of impropriety. Things are written on Facebook that end … Continue reading

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Are Blogs Good For The Jews?

Rabbi Gil Student writes for The Jewish Press: It is extremely important that we all remember the laws of lashon ha’ra apply to all forms of communication. The same standards we see in newspapers should be expected from blogs, but … Continue reading

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The Shabbos Elevator

Rabbi Gil Student writes: A ruling by leading authorities in Israel was recently published in a newspaper, prohibiting the use of so-called "Shabbos Elevators" (I, II). This has led to a big confusion, with people objecting and be unsure of … Continue reading

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Blogging Allowed On Festival’s Intermediate Days

Rabbi Gil Student says: R. Yuval Cherlow rules that you are allowed to blog on Chol Ha-Mo’ed (link). See also this post: link. Note that you should ask your own rabbi and not rely on internet rulings. YEHUDA POSTS: I … Continue reading

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Should Orthodox Judaism Have Female Rabbis?

Rabbi Gil Student writes in First Things: Women never served as ritual slaughterers, for example, although an actual prohibition was rejected in the Medieval legal literature. Nonetheless, when the question arose of whether a woman could, in actual practice, be … Continue reading

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