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![[HEBREW--Orech Chayyim]](../images/bigheb/memfinal.gif)      
Orah Hayyim
![[HEBREW--halachot tzitzit]](../images/hebchars/taf.gif)       
Tzitzit
![[HEBREW--halachot tefilin]](../images/hebchars/nunfinal.gif) 
Tefillin
    
Blessings
![[HEBREW--halachot k'riat shema]](../images/hebchars/ayin.gif)  
K'riat Shema
The Amidah
![[HEBREW--halachot nesiat kapayim]](../images/hebchars/memfinal.gif) 
The Priestly Blessing
Torah Reading
- Joel Roth, "The Status of Daughters of Kohanim and Leviyim for Aliyot" OH 135:3.1989a
- Ben Zion Bergman, "The Status of Daughters of Kohanim and Leviyim for Aliyot: A Concurring and Dissenting Opinion" OH 135:3.1989b
- Mayer Rabinowitz, "Rishon or Kohen" OH 135:3.1990
- Herbert Mandl, "May a Non-Kohen Be Called First to the Torah?" OH 135:3.1991
- Avram Israel Reisner, "Joint Aliyot" OH 136.1992
- Kassel Abelson, "Aliyot for Couples" OH 136.1993
- Elliot Dorff, "Annual and Triennial Systems for Reading the Torah" OH 137.1987a
- Lionel E. Moses, "Is There an Authentic Triennial Cycle of Torah Readings?" OH 137.1987b
- Richard Eisenberg, "A Complete Triennial Cycle for Reading the Torah" OH 137.1988, 1995
- Daniel S. Nevins, "The Participation of Jews Who are Blind in the Torah Service" OH 139:2.2003
- Nechama D. Goldberg, "Hazak, Hazak v'Nithazak" OH 139:11.2000
The Synagogue
Minhah and Maariv
Shabbat
- Joel Roth and Norman Krivosha, "Shabbat Lease Arrangement" OH 243.1995a
- Ben Zion Bergman, "Shabbat Corporation Arrangement" OH 243.1995b
- Elliot N. Dorff, "Jewish Businesses Open on Shabbat and Yom Tov: A Concurring Opinion" OH 243.1995c
- David H. Lincoln, "Fixing a Bar Mitzvah Date Before the Birthday " OH 282:3.1981
- Joel Roth, "May a Minor Read from the Torah? " OH 282:3.1982a
- David H. Lincoln, "May a Pre-Bar Mitzvah Boy Read from the Torah? " OH 282:3.1982b
- Ben Zion Bokser, "Shabbat Morning Bat Mitzvah" OH
284:4.1981
- Kassel Abelson, "Preparing and Serving Food on Shabbat " OH
318:1.1981a
- Mayer Rabinowitz, "Preparation and Serving of Food on Shabbat in the Synagogue " OH 318:1.1981b
- Mayer Rabinowitz and Dvora Weisberg, "Rabbinic Supervision of Jewish Owned Businesses Operating on Shabbat" OH 318:1.1986a
- Howard Handler, "Should Bakeries Which are Open on Shabbat Be Supervised? A Response to the Rabinowitz-Weisberg Opinion" OH 318:1.1986b
- David H. Lincoln, "Videotaping on Shabbat " OH
340:3.1982a
- Mayer Rabinowitz, "An Addendum to "Videotaping on Shabbat" " OH
340:3.1982b
- Mayer Rabinowitz, Dvora Weisberg, "Tape Recording and Photography on Shabbat " OH 340:3.1984
- Gordon Tucker, "The Use of a Remote Audio/Video Monitor on Shabbat and Yom Tov" OH 340:3.1989a
- Arnold Goodman, "May a Shabbat Service Be Taped?" OH 340:3.1989b
- Elliot Dorff and Gordon Tucker, "On Recording Shabbat and Yom Tov Services" OH 340:3.1989c
- Amy Eilberg, "The Use of a Remote Audio/Video Monitor on Shabbat and Yom Tov: A Dissenting Opinion" OH 340:3.1989d
- Howard Handler, "On Recording Shabbat and Yom Tov Services: A Dissenting Opinion" OH 340:3.1989e
Pesah and Kashering
- Kassel Abelson, "When Pesah Begins on Saturday Night" OH 444.1993
- Kassel Abelson, "The Use of Cheese on Pesah" OH 447:2.1985
- Mayer E. Rabinowitz, "Canned Tuna Fish on Pesah" OH 447:5.1995
- Paul Plotkin, "Manual for Supervising the Kashrut of Bakeries" OH 451:2004
- Kassel Abelson, "Can Utensils Lined with Silverstone be Kashered?" OH 451:3.1991
- Kassel Abelson, "Kashering a Microwave Oven for Pesah " OH 451:5.1983
- Kassel Abelson, "May Glass Cookware Be Kashered?" OH 451:26.1990a
- Howard Handler, "On Kashering Glass Vessels" OH 451:26.1990b
- Paul Drazen, "Kashrut in the Synagogue" OH 451.2003
- Mayer Rabinowitz, "A Pesah Guide " OH
453.1984
- Ben Zion Bergman, "A New Look at Peanuts—From the Ground Up" OH 453:1.1986
- Kassel Abelson, "May Baking Soda Be Used During Pesah? " OH
462:1.1982
- Morris Feldman, "Does Milk Need a Kasher L'Pesah Label?" OH 488:7.1985
- Mayer Rabinowitz, "The Question of Yom Tov Sheini for Visitors to Israel " OH
496:3.1981
Rosh Hashanah
Yom Kippur
![[HEBREW--Yoreh Deah]](../images/bigheb/heh.gif)  
Yoreh De'ah
Kosher Slaughter
Meat and Milk
Foreign Foods
![[HEBREW--halachot yayin nesach]](../images/hebchars/kaffinal.gif)
Kosher and Non-Kosher Wine
Monetary Interest
![[HEBREW--halachot chukot ovdai kochavim v'kisuf]](../images/hebchars/pehfinal.gif)
Idolatry and Sorcery
Niddah
Jewish Education
Circumcision
Conversion
- Joel Roth, Akiba Lubow, "A Standard of Rabbinic Practice Regarding Determination of Jewish Identity " YD 268.1986
- Ben Zion Bergman, "The Case of the Unconverted Spouse" YD 268.1993
- David Novak, "The Status of Non-Halakhic Conversions " YD 268:3.1982
- Herbert J. Mandl, "Conversion to Judaism Without Circumcision Due to Medical Complications" YD 268:1.1994
- Aaron L. Mackler, "Maternal Identity and the Religious Status of Children Born to a Surrogate Mother" YD 268:6.1997
- Avram Israel Reisner, "On the Conversion of Adopted and Patrilineal Children" YD 268:7.1988
- Joel Roth, "Should the Kashrut of Conversions Be Investigated?" YD 268:10.1984a
- David Novak, "A Teshuvah on the Subject of the Investigations of Conversions Today (Hebrew)" YD 268:10.1984b
- Steven Saltzman, "The Status of Ethiopian Jews" YD 268:10.1986
- Steven Saltzman, "May a Conversion Obtained Through Deceit Be Annulled?" YD 268:12.1989a
- Avram Israel Reisner, "On Annulling a Conversion Obtained by Deceit: A Concurring Opinion" YD 268:12.1989b
- Morris Shapiro, "Addendum I On: May a Conversion Obtained by Deceit be Annulled" YD 268:12.1989c (part 1)
- Morris Shapiro, "Addendum 2 On: May a Conversion Obtained by Deceit be Annulled" YD 268:12.1989d (part 2)
- Gerald Zelizer, "The Return of Second Generation Apostates" YD 268:12.1995
The Torah Scroll
Mezuzah
Pidyon HaBen
Visiting the Sick and Medicine
- Joseph H. Prouser, "Chesed or Chiuv: The Obligation to Preserve Life and the Question of Post-Mortem Organ Donations" YD 336.1995
- Joseph Prouser, "Organ and Tissue Donation Card" YD 336.1996
- Joel Roth, "Organ Donation" YD 336.1999-
- Elliot Dorff, "Stem Cell Research" YD 336.2002
- Elliot N. Dorff and Aaron L. Mackler, "Responsibilities for the Provision of Health Care" YD 336:1.1998
- James Rosen, "Mental Retardation, Group Homes and the Rabbi" YD 336:1.2000
- Avram Israel Reisner, "A Halakhic Ethic of Care for the Terminally Ill" YD 339:1.1990a
- Elliot N. Dorff, "A Jewish Approach to End-Stage Medical Care" YD 339:1.1990b
- Avram Israel Reisner, "Mai Beinaihu?" YD 339:1.1990c
- Amy Eilberg, "On Halakhic Approaches to Medical Care for the Terminally Ill: A Response" YD 339:1.1990d
- Joel Roth, "A Response to Rabbis Dorff and Reisner" YD 339:1.1990e
- Aaron L. Mackler, ed., "Jewish Medical Directives for Health Care" YD 339:1.1993
- Avram Israel Reisner, "Peri- and Neo-Natology: The Matter of Limiting Treatment" YD 339.1995
Responding to a Death
Mourning
- Elliot N. Dorff, "Assisted Suicide" YD 345.1997a
- Statement on Assisted Suicide YD 345.1997b
- Kassel Abelson, "Suicide" YD 345:2.2005
- Paul Plotkin, "Burial of Jews Practicing Christianity" YD 345:5.1994
- Myron S. Geller, "Bury Him, Yes, Bury Him" YD 345:5.1998
- Morris Shapiro, "Cremation in the Jewish Tradition" YD 348.1986
- Ben Zion Bergman, "I Shall Sprinkle Pure Water Upon You and You Shall Be Purified" YD 352:3.1998
- Ben Zion Bokser, "A Statement on Funerals in the Synagogue " YD 353:3.1983
- Morris Feldman, "May a Mausoleum Be Used for Jewish Burial? " YD 362:1.1983
- David H. Lincoln, "The Use of Mausoleums for Jewish Burial " YD 362:1.1983
- Myron S. Geller, "Exhuming the Dead" YD 363.1996
- Ben Zion Bergman, "A Matter of Grave Concern" YD 367:1.1991
- Myron S. Geller, "Peaceful Paths" YD 367:1.1994
- Daniel S. Nevins, "Ad Heikhan Hu Bodek? -- Contemporary Criteria for the Declaration of Death" YD 370:1.2004
- Joel Rembaum, "Converts Mourning the Death of Close Relatives" YD 374:5.1998
- Isidoro Aizenberg, "Mourning for a Newborn" YD 374:8.1987
- Stephanie Dickstein, "What Should Be Jewish Practice Following the Death of an Infant Who Lives Less Than Thirty One Days?" YD 374:8.1992a
- Avram Israel Reisner, "Kiyyam Li: A Dissenting Concurrence" YD 374:8.1992b
- Kassel Abelson and Mayer Rabinowitz, "Ritual of Mourning When a Body is Not Recovered" YD 375:7.2001
- Isidoro Aizenberg, "On the Status of Missing Persons" YD 397.1987
- Baruch Frydman-Kohl, "Welcoming Mourners on Shabbat" YD 400:1.2000
  
Even HaEzer
Marriage and Fertility
- David H. Lincoln, "Surrogate Motherhood" EH 1:3.1984
- Elliot N. Dorff, "Artificial Insemination, Egg Donation and Adoption" EH 1:3.1994
- Aaron L. Mackler, "In Vitro Fertilization" EH 1:3.1995
- Aaron Mackler and Elie Spitz, "On the Use of Birth Surrogates" EH 1:3.1997a
- Elie Spitz, "On the Use of Birth Surrogates" EH 1:3.1997b
- Aaron Mackler, "Surrogate Parenting" EH 1:3.1997c
- Kassel Abelson and Elliot Dorff, "Mitzvah Children" EH 1:5.2007
- Elie Spitz, "Mamzerut" EH 4.2000a
- Daniel S. Nevins, "A Concurring Opinion Regarding Mamzerut" EH 4.2000b
- Mayer Rabinowitz, "Status of Transsexuals" EH 5:11.2003
- David H. Lincoln, "Accepting Egyptian Karaites into Our Communities " EH 4:37.1984
- Arnold M. Goodman, "Solemnizing the Marriage Between a Kohen and a Divorcee" EH 6:1.1996
- Arnold M. Goodman, "Solemnizing the Marriage Between a Kohen and a Convert" EH 6:8.1996
Interpersonal Relations
- Kassel Abelson, "The Non-Jewish Spouse and Children of a Mixed Marriage in the Synagogue " EH 16.1982a
- Jacob B. Agus, "The Mitzvah of Keruv" EH 16.1982b
- Joel Roth, Daniel Gordis, "Keruv and the Status of Intermarried Families " EH 16.1982c
- Seymour Siegel, "Comments on "Keruv and the Status of Intermarried Families " EH 16.1982d
- Harry Z. Sky, "The Mitzvah of Keruv " EH 16.1982e
- Joel Roth, "Synagogue Honors for the Intermarried Jew " EH 16.1984a
- Committee Members, "Synagogue Honors for the Intermarried Jew: A Dissenting Opinion " EH 16.1984b
- Henry A. Sosland, "May the Reception Following an Intermarriage be Held in a Conservative Synagogue?" EH 16.1987
- Jerome M. Epstein, "Congratulations to Mixed Marriage Families" EH 16.1989
- Jerome M. Epstein, "The Role of the Non-Jewish Parent in Blessings for Bar/Bat Mitzvah" EH 16.1993
- Jerome M. Epstein, "Participation of Non-Jewish Parents or Grandparents in Home Religious Ceremonies" EH 16.1995
- Jerome M. Epstein, "Issues Regarding Employment of an Intermarried Jew by a Synagogue" EH 16.1997
- Consensus Statement on Homosexuality EH 24.1992a
- Joel Roth, "Homosexuality" EH 24.1992b
- Reuven Kimmelman, "Homosexuality and the Policy Decisions of the CJLS" EH 24.1992c
- Mayer E. Rabinowitz, "On Homosexuality" EH 24.1992d
- Elliot Dorff, "Jewish Norms for Sexual Behavior: A Responsum Embodying a Proposal" EH 24.1992e
- Kassel Abelson, "The Status of Homosexuals in the Synagogue: A Concurring Opinion" EH 24.1992f
- Avram Israel Reisner, "On Homosexuality and Biblical Imperatives: A Concurrence" EH 24.1992g
- Howard Handler, "In the Image of God: A Dissent in Favor of the Full Equality of Gay and Lesbian Jews Into the Community of Conservative Judaism" EH 24.1992h
- Kassel Abelson, "Placing Homosexual Rabbis in Congregations" EH 24.1993a
- Arnold Goodman, "Placing Homosexual Rabbis in Congregations" EH 24.1993b
- Aaron Mackler, "A Concurring Opinion to Arnold M. Goodman's 'Placing Homosexual Rabbis in Congregations'" EH 24.1993c
- Ben Zion Bergman, "The Gay Placement Question: A Dissenting Opinion" EH 24.1993d
- Joel Roth, "Homosexuality Revisited" EH 24.2006a
- Elliot Dorff, Daniel Nevins and Avram Reisner, "Homosexuality, Human Dignity and Halakhah" EH 24.2006b
- Leonard Levy, "Same-Sex Attraction and Halakhah" EH 24.2006c
- Baruch Frydman-Kohl, "Homosexuality and Halakhah" EH 24.2006d
- Loel Weiss, "Same-Sex Attraction and Halakhah: A Concurring Opinion" EH 24.2006e
- Myron Geller, Robert Fine and David Fine, "A New Context: The Halakhah of Same-Sex Relations" EH 24.2006f
- Gordon Tucker, "Halakhic and Metahalakhic Arguments Concerning Judaism and Homosexuality" EH 24.2006g
The Ketubbah
Divorce
![[HEBREW--hoshen mishpat]](../images/bigheb/tet.gif)   
Hoshen Mishpat
Jurisprudence
Testimony
Buying and Selling
Employing Labor
Robbery and Extortion
Monetary Damages
Harming Others
Health and Safety
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