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Dec 7, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Shlomo M. Brody
On an average year, it is estimated there are 15 to 20 such cases in Israel and a couple in the United States. During wartime, that number goes up.
Since the beginning of Operation Swords of Iron, the Chief Rabbinate has performed roughly 20 halitza ceremonies.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
thejc.com | Shlomo M. Brody
British medical care is on the verge of a radical change unless Jews join other activists to stop parliament from passing the Terminally Ill Adults Bill. Unfortunately, some have presented the debate over physician-assisted suicide as being between progressives in favour of liberty against religious traditionalists opposing change.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Shlomo M. Brody
Prayers during a time of illness are a natural religious instinct. In times of distress, when one’s fate or that of a loved one feels particularly uncertain, we turn to the Almighty with the hope that He might provide salvation. In the Bible, we see this with figures like Moses, who prays for his sister, Miriam. “Oh God, please heal her” (Numbers 12:13). We even see the success of such prayers from figures like Hagar, the wife of Abraham, who beseeches God for the salvation of their baby Ishmael.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
city-journal.org | Shlomo M. Brody
Initial amazement at Israel’s “beeper attack,” in which Hezbollah pagers exploded on thousands of their operatives, has quickly turned into accusation of war crimes.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Shlomo M. Brody
Generally, Halacha permits only medical interventions whose efficacy has been proven. Yet even with tested treatments, one cannot be sure that the intervention will succeed.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, ethicists debated two critical dilemmas.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Shlomo M. Brody
Descubre qué opina la Halajá, el sistema de leyes judías, sobre el diagnóstico genético preimplantacional. Explora las perspectivas religiosas y éticas y su impacto en la comunidad. ¡Lee más aquí!
A finales de los ochenta, tuve un compañero de clase que tenía nueve hermanos.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Shlomo M. Brody
In the late 1980s, I had a classmate who had nine siblings. Four of them died in childhood from a horrific genetic disease. The experience took its toll on the whole family; the mother ultimately suffered from a severe mental health crisis. The painful experience triggers a powerful question of whether couples carrying a genetic abnormality should try to have children naturally.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Shlomo M. Brody
Recently, the Supreme Court of Alabama ruled that stored embryos frozen in fertility clinics had the legal status of a minor. As such, clinics in which embryos had been negligently destroyed could be held liable under laws that punished the wrongful death of a minor.
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May 30, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Shlomo M. Brody
May 30, 2024 4:52 pm ET1A Jewish man walks by posters of Oct. 7 hostages in Tel Aviv, May 21. Photo: marko djurica/ReutersModiin, Israel“You dogs, we will step on you.” So said a Hamas terrorist in front of five female Israeli soldiers taken hostage on Oct. 7. The young women, visibly beaten, stare in horror. They’ve been told they’ve become sex slaves. Unlimited access across all platforms and devices.
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Apr 26, 2024 | 
jpost.com | Shlomo M. Brody
On the last festival day of Passover, Ashkenazi synagogues will be reciting Yizkor for the first time since the war began on October 7. Many people, like myself, first began to hear about the Hamas attack in the midst of reciting Yizkor during that horrific Simchat Torah. For Ashkenazi Jews (Sephardim never adopted the Yizkor prayer), this Yizkor will be particularly poignant for those who lost loved ones in the war, who need our support.
