Responsa Radio
By Hadar Institute
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Episodes: 160
Oct 24, 2018
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A podcast where you ask and we answer questions of Jewish law in modern times. Hosted by Rabbi Ethan Tucker and Rabbi Avi Killip. To submit a question, email responsa@hadar.org.
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Can You Count the Omer Early?
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Are Women Exempt from Mitzvot?
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Does Jewish Law Permit Getting a Reversible Vasectomy?
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Are Jews Allowed to Spay or Neuter Pets?
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Is Buying Jewish a Mitzvah?
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Can Women Give the Priestly Blessing?
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Is Seeing Yourself on Zoom Like Looking in a Mirror During Shiva?
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Can I Lead Prayer if I Don't Believe in God?
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Can We Have Joint/Group Aliyot?
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Can We Add Aliyot to the Torah Reading?
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Can I Get a Reiki Treatment?
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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What Is the Scope of Pikuach Nefesh (Can I File a Death Penalty Appeal on Shabbat)?
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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What Does Halakhah Have to Say About Plasma Donation?
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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How Do I Dispose of Christian Religious Items After I Convert?
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Can I Attend a Wedding in a Church?
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Blowing the Shofar: Tips, Tricks, and Considerations
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Minor Fast Days
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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Can We Decorate Shul With Flowers for Shavuot? And Should I Pull an All-Nighter?
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May 28, 2025 |
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Can I Bring in a Second Day of Yom Tov Early?
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May 21, 2025 |
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Can I Say the Names of Other Gods?
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May 14, 2025 |
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Should I Purchase Life Insurance?
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May 07, 2025 |
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Suicide and Burial
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Which Direction Should I Face During Prayer?
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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What Do You *Mean* I Still Can't Eat Bread? (re-release)
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Does Everything Need a Kosher for Passover Certification? (re-release)
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Keeping Kosher for Passover When I'm Not in Control (re-release)
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Can I Do Something Forbidden For Shalom Bayit?
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Can I Have a Karpas Course at the Seder?
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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How Do I Forge My Own Religious Path While Respecting My Parents?
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Can I Print an Overlay to Make Torah Reading More Accessible?
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Can I Read My Horoscope?
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Should the Torah Be Translated as it's Read to Make it More Accessible?
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Jan 01, 2025 |
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Making Sense of the Mechitzah
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Thanking God for "Opening the Eyes of the Blind" When I'm Disabled
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Can I Say Birkat Kohanim While Carrying a Gun?
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Kashrut and the Modern Dairy Industry
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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What is the Role of Doubt in Jewish Law?
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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Can I Swim on Shabbat?
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Why is the Age of Bar/Bat Mitzvah Gendered?
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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Should I Say "Amen" in the Bathroom?
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Can I Use Generative Artifical Intelligence?
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Does Jewish Law Care About Non-Jewish Life?
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Are Jews Responsible for One Another? How so?
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Coming Soon: More Responsa Radio
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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R. Ethan Tucker on the Multivocality of Halakhah
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Jul 15, 2024 |
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Do the Laws of Eruv Make Any Sense At All? 100th Episode Update
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Is Impossible Pork Kosher? 100th Episode Update
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Is There a Blessing on Seeing a Solar Eclipse?
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Can I Buy a Non-Jew a Sandwich on Passover?
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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What Am I Allowed to Do at a Mock Seder?
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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Can I Put on a Play During the Megillah Reading?
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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How Should Jewish Criminal Lawyers Respond to Crime Scene Photos? 100th Episode Update
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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How Can I Make Coffee on Shabbat? 100th Episode Update
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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How to Name a Baby Girl: 100th Episode Update
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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New Podcast Trailer: Answers WithHeld
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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How Do I Become More Observant?
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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How Does Cheese Become Kosher?
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Can an AI Chatbot Answer My Halakhic Questions?
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Do I Need to Light Hanukkah Candles Again After a Communal Lighting?
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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What Liturgical Changes Should We Be Making Right Now?
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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How Far Must We Go To Redeem Captives?
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Can Musical Instruments be Used on Shabbat?
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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How Do Time Zones Work For Shabbat?
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Is My Tallit Supposed to be White?
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Should All Jews Switch to a Mushroom Burial?
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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How Much Time Do I Have to Say a Berakhah?
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May 18, 2023 |
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Keeping Kosher for Passover When I'm Not in Control
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Does Everything Need a Kosher for Passover Certification?
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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When Can I Make a Shehehiyyanu?
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Does Welcoming Guests Ever Override the Laws of Shabbat?
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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When Should We Recite the Shema?
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Can Animals Be Used in Medical Research?
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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How Should I Talk to Patients About Physician-Assisted Suicide?
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Can a Rabbinic Ruling Outlive its Reasoning?
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Should I Save Money or Give Tzedakah?
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Can I Lie for the Sake of Scientific Research?
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Can I Make Seltzer On Shabbat?
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Can I Change My Seat in Shul While in Mourning?
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Why Do We Wait Between Eating Meat and Dairy? Responsa Radio Kids Edition #4
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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How Old Will I Be at the Resurrection of the Dead? Responsa Radio Kids Edition #3
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Did the Sages Have Last Names? Responsa Radio Kids Edition #2
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May 12, 2022 |
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Can You Make Kiddush on Frozen Grapes? Responsa Radio Kids Edition #1
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Is Impossible Pork Kosher?
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Can I Take a Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Test on Shabbat?
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Can I Do Something Forbidden for the Sake of Education?
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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How Will We Return to Running Minyanim Virtually and In-Person?
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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I’ve Been Offered the Covid Vaccine—Now What?
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Can the essence of obligation to visit the sick and comfort mourners really be fulfilled over Zoom?
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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Do I need to take my kippah off in a restaurant?
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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Can I staff a suicide hotline on Shabbat?
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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High Holidays Special Edition
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Can I read about Corona Virus on Shabbat?
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May 21, 2020 |
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Why Don’t Jews Proselytize? …Can They?
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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If I can pronounce the Hebrew, do I need to understand it?
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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What to Do with Grandma’s Treyf China
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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How Do We Use Space During Yom Kippur Services?
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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Can I extinguish my gas burner on Yom Tov?
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Can I attend the theater on Shabbat?
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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I'm a Kohen. Can I Attend My Father's Funeral?
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Are non-Jews allowed to take on mitzvot?
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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Can I See My Therapist on Shabbat?
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Can I bow down during karate class?
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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Can I Prepare Non-Kosher Food for a Soup Kitchen?
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May 03, 2018 |
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What’s the problem with getting a tattoo?
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Passover Special Edition! (Re-release)
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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Is Protest Prayer?
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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How to Count to Ten
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Jul 21, 2017 |
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Can the Government Seize My Property?
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Jul 14, 2017 |
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Whatever Could Be Wrong With My Mezuzah?
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Jul 06, 2017 |
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Online Communities & Other Questions
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May 04, 2017 |
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Pervasive Electricity & Other Questions
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Apr 27, 2017 |
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Can I pray next to people of other faiths?
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Apr 21, 2017 |
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Can I keep an Amazon Echo active on Shabbat?
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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Can I Take An Oath of Office?
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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What is the “Ben Yomo” rule and does it make sense?
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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Why No Shabbat Bicycles?
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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Self Driving Car Ethics—What’s the Halakhah?
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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Should a person’s Judaism dictate workplace behavior?
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Nov 03, 2016 |
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Can I Benefit from a Shabbat Violation after Shabbat is Over?
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Oct 21, 2016 |
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Do modern vehicles change the rules for Tefillat HaDerekh, the Traveller’s Prayer?
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Sep 29, 2016 |
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After a bad breakup, must I ask forgiveness from my ex?
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Sep 23, 2016 |
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Can You Hire People to Work on Shabbat?
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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What if a relative insists on being cremated?
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Sep 09, 2016 |
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Can nonprofits accept money from crooks?
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Jun 16, 2016 |
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Can you bend the rules for the sake of community?
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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Can I “Borrow” Office Supplies?
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Mar 10, 2016 |
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Do I Need to Stand for Kaddish?
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Mar 03, 2016 |
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Can I Listen to This Podcast During a Workout?
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Feb 05, 2016 |
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Should Campaign Contributions Be Considered Charity?
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Jan 28, 2016 |
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Can I Convert to Judaism Because I Love Someone?
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Jan 21, 2016 |
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Praying While In Physical Pain
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Jan 07, 2016 |
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Can I Open My Mail on Shabbat?
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Dec 31, 2015 |
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Can I Live Dangerously?
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Dec 28, 2015 |
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Can non-Jews lead parts of synagogue services?
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Dec 17, 2015 |
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How Do I Make Coffee on Shabbat?
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Sep 04, 2015 |
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When should my kid start keeping kosher?
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Aug 20, 2015 |
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Do forbidden acts become OK if you do them weirdly enough?
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Aug 13, 2015 |
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How To Name A Baby Girl
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Aug 06, 2015 |
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Prayer or a Crying Child—Who Wins?
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Jul 29, 2015 |
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Can You Lead Prayers on a Fast if You're Not Fasting?
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Jul 22, 2015 |
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Why "Rest" on Shabbat Might Include Not Taking Pills
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Jul 15, 2015 |
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Must One Wear a Kippah at All Times?
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Jul 08, 2015 |
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Sports on Shabbat—Can You? Should You?
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Jul 01, 2015 |
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Why the Fuss About Repeating Words in Prayer?
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Jun 24, 2015 |
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Can I Be in a Photograph on Shabbat?
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Jun 17, 2015 |
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I Printed Out God's Name—Now What?
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Jun 10, 2015 |
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Can I Train for My Job on Shabbat?
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Jun 03, 2015 |
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Why is Jewish Divorce Law Still Broken?
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May 27, 2015 |
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Can I Pay My Bills on Shabbat?
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May 20, 2015 |
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In IVF, Should The Egg Donor's Religion Matter?
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May 13, 2015 |
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What Do You *Mean* I Still Can't Eat Bread?
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May 06, 2015 |
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Pesah Special Edition
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Apr 29, 2015 |
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What is Jewish Law's Problem With Electricity?
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Apr 15, 2015 |
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Do the Laws of Eruv Make Any Sense At All?
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Apr 08, 2015 |
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How to Order in a Non-Kosher Restaurant
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Apr 01, 2015 |
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Can I Invest in Burger King?
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Mar 25, 2015 |
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Ant Farms, Dishwashers, Trains, and Blessings After Meals
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Mar 18, 2015 |
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Burial Practices, Umbrellas, Foster Kids
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Mar 11, 2015 |
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Fitbits, Intimacy in the Modern World, and "The 18 Minutes"
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Mar 04, 2015 |
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Night Owls, De Tocqueville, Dishes from Sears, and Theater!
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Feb 25, 2015 |