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Traveling Taxes

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The French government recently approved plans for a new tax on airline tickets, to be levied on all passengers boarding a plane in France that would be distributed to the world’s poor. Is such a tax ethically sound? Jewish tradition recognizes that…
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The Strike Price

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Recently, we in Toronto awoke to news that due to an (illegal) wildcat strike there was to be no public transit. May other transit providers drastically raise prices or is such behaviour nothing more than price gouging of innocents who have limited…
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Private Eye

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The right to privacy is one the Jewish law views with great seriousness. It is rooted in the Jewish concept of tzniut, modesty, which serves as a cornerstone of Jewish values. Judaism developed the notion of hezek reiyah, that the viewing of private…
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French Firings

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Over the past few weeks French authorities have faced fierce opposition to their proposed law granting employers the right to dismiss young workers after two years on the job. Under current French law it is next to impossible to fire workers.…
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Hostile Takeovers

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Acquisition of other companies has become a favourite method of corporate growth. With many large corporations awash in cash and the slow nature of internal growth, many companies are on the lookout for takeover targets. The amount of such activity…
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Sick Leave

Rabbi Jay Kelman

Western work conditions take it as a given that employees are paid for many days for which they do not actually work. Vacation time, sick days, maternity leave, personal time are all part and parcel of standard work conditions. These employee…
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Does It Take One to Know One

Dr. Marshall Korenblum, Dr. Naomi Mark, Rabbi Tsvi Blanchard

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Understanding Shabbat: in Tanakh, Halakhah, and Jewish Thought

Rabbi Nathaniel Helfgot

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Election Etiquette

Rabbi Jay Kelman

The saintly Chafetz Chaim, Rav Yisroel Meir Kagan of Radin (d.1933) in his classic work on the ethics of proper speech points out that up to 31 Torah prohibitions can be violated by improper speech. As a general rule all speech that reflects…
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Can Judaism be Observed by Non-Jews?

Rabbi Reuven Mann

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