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Yevamot 87

Two husbands, one wife.

Family Matters

In the last few years, quite a few gay men in Israel have decided to become parents and raise children ...

Patrilineal Pandemonium: What’s Behind All The Emotion?

Wow. It has been quite a busy week here at the Rabbis Without Borders blog discussing patrilineal descent and its ...

Pushing the Law Forward

Halacha and social equality today.

Best of the Week

Here are the best things that happened at MJL this week–with no additional Tu Bishvat related material!Is Saag Paneer specifically ...

Judy Blume

How a critically acclaimed author has been a victim of censorship.

Yevamot 8

Horrifying disjunction.

Talmud is Not a Code of Law

In working out the ideas behind the statements of the rabbis, the Talmud serves not as a law code but as a work of Jewish legal theory.

The Halakhic Prenup: Embracing Religious Tension

I spent the last two years learning in a beit midrash (Jewish hall of study) in Israel. My beit midrash ...

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