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| Title | Authors | SA Code | Year | SA Category | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Status of Ethiopian Jews | Saltzman, Steven | YD 268:10.1986 | 1986 | Yoreh Deah, Conversion | |
| A Standard of Rabbinic Practice Regarding Determination of Jewish Identity | Lubow, Akiba | Roth, Joel | YD 268.1986 | 1986 | Yoreh Deah, Conversion | |
| A New Look at Peanuts—From the Ground Up | Bergman, Ben Zion | OH 453:1.1986 | 1986 | Orah Hayim, Pesah and Kashering | |
| Should Bakeries Which are Open on Shabbat Be Supervised? A Response to the Rabinowitz-Weisberg Opinion | Handler, Howard | OH 318:1.1986b | 1986 | Orah Hayim, Shabbat | |
| Rabbinic Supervision of Jewish Owned Businesses Operating on Shabbat | Rabinowitz, Mayer | Weisberg, Dvora | OH 318:1.1986a | 1986 | Orah Hayim, Shabbat | |
| On the Use of All Wines | Dorff, Elliot | YD 123:1.1985 | 1985 | Yoreh Deah, Kosher and Non-Kosher Wine | |
| Does Milk Need a Kasher L'Pesah Label? | Feldman, Morris | OH 488:7.1985 | 1985 | Orah Hayim, Pesah and Kashering | |
| The Use of Cheese on Pesah | Abelson, Kassel | OH 447:2.1985 | 1985 | Orah Hayim, Pesah and Kashering | |
| A Response to Rabbi Mayer Rabinowitz | Roth, Joel | HM 7.4.1984d | 1984 | Hoshen Mishpat, Jurisprudence | |
| A Response to Rabbi Joel Roth | Rabinowitz, Mayer | HM 7.4.1984c | 1984 | Hoshen Mishpat, Jurisprudence | |
| On the Ordination of Women as Rabbis | Roth, Joel | HM 7.4.1984b | 1984 | Hoshen Mishpat, Jurisprudence | |
| An Advocate's Halakhic Responses on the Ordination of Women | Rabinowitz, Mayer | HM 7.4.1984a | 1984 | Hoshen Mishpat, Jurisprudence | |
| Synagogue Honors for the Intermarried Jew: A Dissenting Opinion | Abelson, Kassel | Agus, Jacob | Dorff, Elliot | Feldman, Morris | Lincoln, David | Nadich, Judah | Rabinowitz, Mayer | Tucker, Gordon | EH 16.1984b | 1984 | Even HaEzer, Interpersonal Relations | |
| Synagogue Honors for the Intermarried Jew | Roth, Joel | EH 16.1984a | 1984 | Even HaEzer, Interpersonal Relations | |
| Accepting Egyptian Karaites into Our Communities" | Lincoln, David | EH 4:37.1984 | 1984 | Even HaEzer, Marriage and Fertility | |
| Surrogate Motherhood | Lincoln, David | EH 1:3.1984 | 1984 | Even HaEzer, Marriage and Fertility | |
| A Teshuvah on the Subject of the Investigations of Conversions Today (Hebrew) | Novak, David | YD 268:10.1984b | 1984 | Yoreh Deah, Conversion | |
| Should the Kashrut of Conversions Be Investigated? | Roth, Joel | YD 268:10.1984a | 1984 | Yoreh Deah, Conversion | |
| Naming of an Improperly Circumcised Child | Lincoln, David | YD 262:1.1984 | 1984 | Yoreh Deah, Circumcision | |
| Definition of a Devar Hadash | Abelson, Kassel | Rabinowitz, Mayer | YD 87:10.1984 | 1984 | Yoreh Deah, Milk and Meat |