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Proud Sabbath observers who possess Alexa are not required to switch her off on Shabbat. What is halachicly forbidden, of course, is to use Alexa intentionally on Shabbat.

Judaism certainly places a premium on preserving life and usually calls upon us to do everything to save a life. Nonetheless, as Kohelet proclaims, “There is a time for death.”

Out of France's tradition of traditional, Orthodox Judaism, is emerging an invigorated movement of women who are looking to serve as rabbis for the Orthodox community.

The central thesis of the book – supported by careful text analysis – is that Halacha itself reflects and promotes many humanistic values. 

Historically, rabbis were always men. The Reform movement has been ordaining female rabbis since 1972.  

Within the Israeli religious-Zionist community, we strongly encourage organ donation and signing an Israeli organ donation card. Many haredim, however, disagree and Diaspora rabbis are divided.

After the Skver hassidic movement banned artificial intelligence, Rabbi Moishy Goldstein created Kosher.Chat, an AI chatbot with answers appropriate for Orthodox Jews.

There is a myth that Judaism looks askance at directly talking about death and mortality. But this isn't true.

Assimilation is not a process in which one group marries another, rather it is a process in which a group or part of it loses its identity and is absorbed into another group.

Conservative Jews may now buy certified kosher products that have kosher-for-Passover ingredients and are certified gluten-free — even if they aren’t explicitly certified kosher for Passover.