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אבן העזר- Even HaEzer

הלכות פריה ורביה - Marriage and Fertility
הלכות אישות - Interpersonal Relations
הלכות קידושין וכתובה/Kiddushin and Ketubbah
הלכות גיטין - Divorce
הלכות פריה ורביה - Marriage and Fertility

  • Mark Popovsky, "Choosing Our Children’s Genes: The Use of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis" EH 1:5.2008a
  • Avram Israel Reisner and Dr. Marilyn Wind, "PGD:Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis – An Ideological Dissent" EH 1:5.2008b
  • David H. Lincoln, "Surrogate Motherhood" EH 1:3.1984
  • Elliot N. Dorff, "Artificial Insemination, Egg Donation and Adoption" EH 1:3.1994
  • Aaron L. Mackler, "In Vitro Fertilization" EH 1:3.1995
  • Aaron Mackler and Elie Spitz, "On the Use of Birth Surrogates" EH 1:3.1997a
  • Elie Spitz, "On the Use of Birth Surrogates" EH 1:3.1997b
  • Aaron Mackler, "Surrogate Parenting" EH 1:3.1997c
  • Susan Grossman, "Choosing Parenthood: ART, Adoption and the Single Parent" EH 1:3.2020
  • Kassel Abelson and Elliot Dorff, "Mitzvah Children" EH 1:5.2007
  • Elie Spitz, "Mamzerut," EH 4.2000a
  • Daniel S. Nevins, "A Concurring Opinion Regarding Mamzerut" EH 4.2000b
  • Daniel S. Nevins and Katja Vehlow, "Halakhic Guidance for Jews of Blended Religious Backgrounds" EH 4:19.2024
  • David H. Lincoln, "Accepting Egyptian Karaites into Our Communities" EH 4:37.1984
  • Mayer Rabinowitz, "Status of Transsexuals" EH 5:11.2003
  • Leonard A. Sharzer, MD "Transgender Jews and Halakhah" EH 5:11.2017
  • Miriam Berkowitz and Mark Popovsky, "Contraception" EH 5:12.2010
  • Arnold M. Goodman, "Solemnizing the Marriage Between a Kohen and a Divorcee" EH 6:1.1996
  • Arnold M. Goodman, "Solemnizing a Marriage Between a Kohen and a Convert" EH 6:8.1996

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הלכות אישות - Interpersonal Relations

  • Gateways Into Jewish Living: Guiding the Conservative/Masorti Rabbi in Supporting Families with Non-Jewish Loved Ones" EH 16.2026a
    • Daniel Nevins and Joel Pitkowsky, "Dissent to “Ḥanukkat Habayit (Dedication of the Jewish Home) Ceremony for Couples Consisting of a Jewish Partner and a Non-Jewish Partner Who Have Decided to Build an Exclusively Jewish Home and Family Together” EH 16.2026b
    • Aaron Alexander, "Gateways Into Jewish Living – (Some) Dissent" EH 16.2026c
  • Kassel Abelson, "The Non-Jewish Spouse and Children of a Mixed Marriage in the Synagogue" EH 16.1982a
  • Jacob B. Agus, "The Mitzvah of Keruv" EH 16.1982b
  • Joel Roth and Daniel Gordis, "Keruv and the Status of Intermarried Families" EH 16.1982c
  • Seymour Siegel, "Comments on "Keruv and the Status of Intermarried Families" EH 16.1982d
  • Harry Z. Sky, "The Mitzvah of Keruv" EH 16.1982e
  • Joel Roth, "Synagogue Honors for the Intermarried Jew" EH 16.1984a
  • Committee Members, "Synagogue Honors for the Intermarried Jew: A Dissenting Opinion" EH 16.1984b
  • Henry A. Sosland, "May the Reception Following an Intermarriage be Held in a Conservative Synagogue?" EH 16.1987
  • Jerome M. Epstein, "Congratulations to Mixed Marriage Families" EH 16.1989
  • Jerome M. Epstein, "The Role of the Non-Jewish Parent in Blessings for Bar/Bat Mitzvah" EH 16.1993
  • Jerome M. Epstein, "Participation of Non-Jewish Parents or Grandparents in Home Religious Ceremonies" EH 16.1995
  • Jerome M. Epstein, "Issues Regarding Employment of an Intermarried Jew by a Synagogue" EH 16.1997
  • David Booth, "Non-Jews Opening the Ark" EH 16.2013a
    • Aaron Alexander, "Concurring Opinion to Non‐Jews Opening the Ark" EH 16.2013b
    • Committee Members, "Dissenting Opinion to Non-Jews Opening the Ark" EH 16.2013c
  • Joshua Heller and Amy Levin, "The Dissonance of a Non-Jew Opening the Aron Kodesh/the Holy Ark" EH 16.2016a
    • Elliot Dorff "Dissenting Opinion to The Dissonance of a Non-Jew Opening the Aron Kodesh/the Holy Ark" EH 16.2016b
  • Elliot Dorff and Joshua Hearshen "Violent and Defamatory Video Games" EH 21:1.2010
  • "Consensus Statement on Homosexuality" EH 24.1992a
  • Joel Roth, "Homosexuality" EH 24.1992b
  • Reuven Kimmelman, "Homosexuality and the Policy Decisions of the CJLS" EH 24.1992c
  • Mayer E. Rabinowitz, "On Homosexuality" EH 24.1992d
  • Elliot Dorff, "Jewish Norms for Sexual Behavior: A Responsum Embodying a Proposal" EH 24.1992e
  • Kassel Abelson, "The Status of Homosexuals in the Synagogue: A Concurring Opinion" EH 24.1992f
  • Avram Israel Reisner, "On Homosexuality and Biblical Imperatives: A Concurrence" EH 24.1992g
  • Howard Handler, "In the Image of God: A Dissent in Favor of the Full Equality of Gay and Lesbian Jews Into the Community of Conservative Judaism" EH 24.1992h
  • Kassel Abelson, "Placing Homosexual Rabbis in Congregations" EH 24.1993a
  • Arnold Goodman, "Placing Homosexual Rabbis in Congregations" EH 24.1993b
  • Aaron Mackler, "A Concurring Opinion to Arnold M. Goodman's 'Placing Homosexual Rabbis in Congregations'" EH 24.1993c
  • Ben Zion Bergman, "The Gay Placement Question: A Dissenting Opinion" EH 24.1993d
  • Joel Roth, "Homosexuality Revisited" EH 24.2006a
  • Elliot Dorff, Daniel Nevins, and Avram Reisner, "Homosexuality, Human Dignity and Halakhah" EH 24.2006b
    • Elliot Dorff, Daniel Nevins, and Avram Reisner, "Rituals and Documents of Marriage and Divorce for Same-Sex Couples" (an appendix to "Homosexuality, Human Dignity and Halakhah") EH 24.2012a
      • Aaron Alexander, "Rituals and Documents of Marriage and Divorce for Same-Sex Couples: A Concurrence" EH 24.2012b
  • Leonard Levy, "Same-Sex Attraction and Halakhah" EH 24.2006c
  • Baruch Frydman-Kohl, "Homosexuality and Halakhah" EH 24.2006d
  • Loel Weiss, "Same-Sex Attraction and Halakhah: A Concurring Opinion" EH 24.2006e
  • Myron Geller, Robert Fine and David Fine, "A New Context: The Halakhah of Same-Sex Relations" EH 24.2006f
  • Gordon Tucker, "Halakhic and Metahalakhic Arguments Concerning Judaism and Homosexuality" EH 24.2006g

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הלכות קידושין וכתובה/Kiddushin and Ketubbah

  • Gail Labovitz, "With Righteousness and With Justice, With Goodness and With Mercy: Options for Egalitarian Marriage Within Halakhah" EH 27:1.2020a
    • Gail Labovitz, Appendix to "With Righteousness and With Justice, With Goodness and With Mercy: Options for Egalitarian Marriage Within Halakhah," EH 27:1.2020b
    • Pamela Barmash, "A Dissent in Part, a Concurrence in Part to Rabbi Labovitz’s Teshuvah on Egalitarian Marriage Within Halakhah" EH 27:1.2020c
    • Letter from the Author, February 2026
  • Pamela Barmash, "Egalitarian Kiddushin and Ketubbah" EH 27:6.2020a
    • Gail Labovitz, "A Dissent to Egalitarian Kiddushin and Ketubbah" EH 27:6.2020b
  • Elliot Dorff, "A Second Wedding Ceremony" EH 62:10.2021γ
    • Avram Israel Reisner, "A Second Wedding Ceremony: A Second Opinion" EH 62:10.2021γ
  • Joel Roth, "When There Was No Ketubbah" EH 66:3.2002
  • Morris M. Shapiro, "The Text of the Ketubbah" EH 66:6.1983a
  • Joel Roth and Daniel Gordis, "Sociological Reality and Textual Traditions: Their Tension in the Ketubbah" EH 66:6.1983b
  • Robert Gordis, "A Proposal for the Text of the Ketubbah" EH 66:6.1983c
  • "A New Ketubbah Text" EH 66:6.1987
  • Ben Zion Bergman, "Towards an Egalitarian Ketubbah" EH 66:11.2003b
  • Avram Reisner, "Joint Ownership" EH 85:1.2017

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הלכות גיטין - Divorce

  • Pamela Barmash, "Egalitarian Divorce and Gittin" EH:119.6.2022
  • Jaymee Alpert, Toby Schonfeld, Deborah Silver, "Lo Tevoshi V’lo Tikkalmi: Establishing a Woman’s Agency and Dignity as an Essential Part of the Get-Giving Ceremony" EH 123.2023
  • Lionel E. Moses, "Mix and Match: The Use of Aramaic Phrases in Legal Documents Written in Hebrew" EH 126:1.1996
  • Edward M. Gershfield, "A Statement on Gittin" EH 131:7.1981
  • Ben Zion Bergman, "On Restoring the Shaliach L'Kabbalah" EH 140:3.2000
  • Miriam T. Spitzer, "Giving a Get to a Meshumedet," EH 140:5.2023a
    • Daniel Nevins, "Concurring Opinion to Giving a Get to a Meshumedet" EH 140:5.2023b
  • Kassel Abelson and Mayer Rabinowitz, "Renewal of Marriage for Couples Without Get" EH 150:4.1999a
  • Judah Kogen, "Renewal of Marriage for Couples Without Get--A Dissenting Opinion" EH 150:4.1999b

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