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| Title | Authors | SA Code | Year | SA Category | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tallit on the Bimah: Optional or Required? | Berkowitz, Miriam | OH 17:2.2018 | 2018 | Orah Hayim, Tzitzit | |
| Joint Ownership | Reisner, Avram | EH 85:1.2017 | 2017 | Even HaEzer, Kiddushin and Ketubbah | |
| Transgender Jews and Halakhah | Sharzer, Leonard | EH 5:11.2017b | 2017 | Even HaEzer, Marriage and Fertility | |
| Concurrence to Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky’s Paper on Alternative Modes of Burial | Abelson, Kassel | Dorff, Elliot | Levin, Amy | YD 362:1.2017c | 2017 | Yoreh Deah, Mourning | |
| Concurring Opinion on Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky’s 'Alternative Kevurah Methods' | Bickart, Noah | Heller, Joshua | Nevins, Daniel | YD 362:1.2017b | 2017 | Yoreh Deah, Mourning | |
| Alternative Kevura Methods | Kalmanofsky, Jeremy | YD 362:1.2017a | 2017 | Yoreh Deah, Mourning | |
| The Kashrut of Cultured Meat | Nevins, Daniel | YD 81:10.2017 | 2017 | Yoreh Deah, Living Animal Products | |
| Early Yom Tov/Seder | Heller, Joshua | OH 472.1.2017 | 2017 | Orah Hayim, Pesah and Kashering | |
| The Abbreviated Amidah | Kalmanofsky, Jeremy | OH 124:1.2017 | 2017 | Orah Hayim, The Amidah | |
| The Status of Non-Jews in Jewish Law and Lore | Hammer, Reuven | HM 359.1.2016 | 2016 | Hoshen Mishpat, Robbery and Extortion | |
| Dissenting Opinion to The Dissonance of a Non-Jew Opening the Aron Kodesh/the Holy Ark | Dorff, Elliot | EH 16.2016b | 2016 | Even HaEzer, Interpersonal Relations | |
| The Dissonance of a Non-Jew Opening the Aron Kodesh/the Holy Ark | Heller, Joshua | Levin, Amy | EH 16.2016a | 2016 | Even HaEzer, Interpersonal Relations | |
| Physician Strikes | Stein, Jay | YD 336:1.2016 | 2016 | Yoreh Deah, Visiting the Sick and Medicine | |
| Discarding Large Quantities of Old Siddurim and Mahzorim | Peltz, Micah | YD 276:2016 | 2016 | Yoreh Deah, Torah Scroll | |
| Post-Mortem Circumcision | Frydman-Kohl, Baruch | YD 263:5.2016 | 2016 | Yoreh Deah, Circumcision | |
| Dissenting Opinion - Kitniyot on Pesah | Berkowitz, Miriam | Bickart, Noah | Frydman-Kohl, Baruch | Hoffman, David | Peltz, Micah | OH 453:1.2016 | 2016 | Orah Hayim, Pesah and Kashering | |
| The Gluten Free Meal: A Concurrence in Concept, A Dissent in Detail:A Response to Rabbi Pamela Barmash’s “Birkat Hamazon and Zimmun | Hammer, Reuven | Reisner, Avram | OH 184:4.2016b | 2016 | Orah Hayim, Meals and Birkat Hamazon | |
| Birkat Hamazon and Zimmun For Meals that Do Not Include Bread From the Five Species of Grain | Barmash, Pamela | OH 184:4.2016a | 2016 | Orah Hayim, Meals and Birkat Hamazon | |
| Modesty Inside and Out: A Contemporary Guide to Tzniut | Booth, David | Frydman-Kohl, Baruch | Konigsburg, Ashira | OH 74:2016 | 2016 | Orah Hayim, Verbal Exchange | |
| Shiva When Burial is Delayed | Heller, Joshua | YD 375:2.2015 | 2015 | Yoreh Deah, Mourning |