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Why Your Local Butcher Does Not Sell Giraffe: Kashrut of Exotic Birds and Animals

Rabbi Dr. Ari Zivotofsky

Rabbi Dr. Ari Zivotofsky is one of the world's foremost experts on the mesorah of kosher animals. He is well-known for organizing the highly successful halachik seudah in Yerushalayim, NY, LA, and Chicago, and the series of mesorah conferences…
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Casinos

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation would like to add a casino in Toronto and make lottery tickets and slot machines more readily available, arguing that this could add up to 2 Billion a year to government revenues. At a time when the…
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The Search for the Holy Snail: Tekhelet, Lost and Found

Baruch Sterman

Join us of a series of shiurim and workshops regarding the fascinating story tracing the restoration of the elusive blue thread to the People of Israel http://www.tekhelet.com/
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What We don't Know about the Laws of Family Purity - Ms. Bracha Rutner

Bracha Rutner

Class

Innovation in Jewish Law: When Can We, Should We, Must We?

Rabbi Michael Broyde

Innovation in Jewish Law: When Can We, Should We, Must We?
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The Power of Kaddish

Rabbi Jay Kelman

I wrote the thought below on that last day of saying kaddish for my father, Harav Chaim Yosef ben Harav Zvi Yehudah, z"l, four years ago. It generated more comments than any other piece I have ever written. As we ready to…
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Rolling the Dice

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The accusations against an official of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in a gambling scandal afford us the opportunity for a brief overview gambling from a Jewish perspective. Judaism has always looked askance at gambling. It is viewed as…
Article

All May be Holy: Maimonides Attitude to the Non-Jew

Rabbi Yaakov Kerzner

Class

Channukah and Chukat HaGoyim

Class

Belief in G-d: The First Mitzvah (Part 2)

Dr. Elliott Malamet

Class