Keeping Kosher in the Age of AI
As advanced computing allows food to be created in radically new ways, standard kosher categories will become increasingly less useful. What happens then?
March 18 2024 12:01AM
Podcast: Chaim Saiman Talks Zoom Seder Out Loud
The author of our May essay on the Zoom seder joins us to talk about his ideas and the debate surrounding them.
June 4 2020 1:07AM
The Zoom-Seder Ruling Reveals New Fractures and Coalitions in the World of Jewish Orthodoxy
From Ashkenazi and Sephardi to strict and lenient.
May 28 2020 12:01AM
In Rejecting the Zoom Seder, What Did Orthodox Jews Affirm?
What the headline-making rabbinic showdown over online seders reveals about Jewish law and its limits.
May 4 2020 12:01AM
What Happens in Heaven? Study. Of What? Jewish Law.
“In heaven there will be no law,” an American legal giant once wrote. For Jews, it’s exactly the opposite.
Sept. 13 2018 12:01AM
The Paths Not Taken
There have been two moments in the last 150 years when the assumptions behind Jewish law seemed poised to change. Nothing happened. Is today different?
Dec. 15 2013 2:14PM