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| Title | Authors | SA Code | Year | SA Category | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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” | Nevins, Daniel | Pitkowsky, Joel | Weiss, Raysh | EH 16.2026b | 2026 | Even HaEzer, Interpersonal Relations | |
| Gateways Into Jewish Living: Guiding the Conservative/Masorti Rabbi in Supporting Families with Non-Jewish Loved Ones | Barmash, Pamela | Barton, Emily | Fine, David | Heller, Joshua | Levin, Amy | Reisner, Avram | Spitzer, Miriam T. | EH 16.2026a | 2026 | Even HaEzer, Interpersonal Relations | |
| Human Organ Procurement with NRP | Nevins, Daniel | YD 336.2026 | 2026 | Yoreh Deah, Visiting the Sick and Medicine | |
| Compassionate Tefillin | Megdal, Deborah | OH 32:37.2026 | 2026 | Orah Hayim, Tefillin | |
| Unmarried Men Wearing Tallitot | Heller, Joshua | OH 17:3.2026 | 2026 | Orah Hayim, Tzitzit | |
| When No One Can Read Torah | Fine, David | OH 142:2.2026a | 2026 | Orah Hayim, Torah Reading | |
| The Kashrut of Cultured Chicken | Aaronson, Harry | Brody, Suzanne | YD 87:3.2026 | 2026 | Yoreh Deah, Milk and Meat | |
| Dissent to “When No One Can Read Torah” | Nevins, Daniel | Pitkowsky, Joel | OH 142:2b | 2026 | Orah Hayim, Torah Reading | |
| Birkat Ilanot | Gibbs, Philip | OH 226.2025 | 2025 | Orah Hayim, Blessings | |
| People with Communication Disabilities Taking on Liturgical Honors and Leadership | Barmash, Pamela | OH 53.2025 | 2025 | Orah Hayim, Blessings | |
| Shiv’ah Guide | Barmash, Pamela | Dorff, Elliot | YD 376:1.2025 | 2025 | Yoreh Deah, Mourning | |
| The Kashrut of Insects in Modern Times | Nover, Matthew | YD 85:1.2025 | 2025 | Yoreh Deah, Worms and Insects | |
| “Ethical Investing” by Rabbi Barry Leff: A Principled Concurrence | Baldachin, Adam | Levin, Amy | Nover, Matthew | Reisner, Avram | Scheinberg, Robert | HM 179.1.2025d | 2025 | Hoshen Mishpat, Partnership | |
| Dissent to “Ethical Investing: Praiseworthy, or Obligatory | Bender, Chaya | Weiss, Raysh | HM 179:1.2025c | 2025 | Hoshen Mishpat, Partnership | |
| Concurrence to Ethical Investing: Praiseworthy, or Obligatory? | Barton, Emily | Bender, Chaya | Brody, Suzanne | Fellman, Aviva | Fine, David | Heller, Joshua | Safman, Rachel | Spitzer, Miriam T. | Vogel, Stewart | HM 179.1.2025b | 2025 | Hoshen Mishpat, Partnership | |
| Ethical Investing: Praiseworthy, or Obligatory? | Leff, Barry | HM 179:1.2025 | 2025 | Hoshen Mishpat, Partnership | |
| Jews With Special Needs | Barmash, Pamela | HM 35.2025 | 2025 | Hoshen Mishpat, Testimony | |
| Guidelines for Abbreviating Jewish Prayer Experiences | Baldachin, Adam | Scheinberg, Robert | OH.98:1.2025 | 2025 | Orah Hayim, The Amidah | |
| Concurrence to “A Minyan is Constituted by Ten,” by Rabbi David J. Fine | Leff, Barry | OH 55:4.2025b | 2025 | Orah Hayim, Blessings | |
| A Minyan is Constituted by Ten | Fine, David | OH 55:4.2025a | 2025 | Orah Hayim, Blessings |