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| Title | Authors | SA Code | Year | SA Category | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giving a Get to a Meshumedet | Spitzer, Miriam T. | EH 140:5.2023 | 2023 | Even HaEzer, Divorce | |
| Lo Tevoshi V’lo Tikkalmi: Establishing a Woman’s Agency and Dignity as an Essential Part of the Get-Giving Ceremony | Alpert, Jaymee | Schonfeld, Toby | Silver, Deborah | EH 123.2023 | 2023 | Even HaEzer, Divorce | |
| When Should a Person Come Off the Communal Prayer List? | Greyber, Daniel | Peltz, Micah | YD 335:4.2023 | 2023 | Yoreh Deah, Visiting the Sick and Medicine | |
| The Meatless Menu | Reisner, Avram | YD 113:1.2023 | 2023 | Yoreh Deah, Foreign Foods | |
| A Dissent to Rabbi Judith Hauptman, Rabbi Suzanne Brody and Jessica Rosenthal Chod, Esq., “An Alternative to Maternal Identity and the Status of Children Born Using a Gestational Carrier” | Barmash, Pamela | Levin, Amy | YD 269:9.2023 | 2023 | Yoreh Deah, Conversion | |
| The Parameters and Power of Community Prayer in the Absence of a Minyan | Levin, Amy | OH 55:1.2022 | 2022 | Orah Hayim, Blessings | |
| Kohenet Kirvi: Call a Bat Kohen a Kohenet | Fine, David | OH 135.3.2022 | 2022 | Orah Hayim, Torah Reading | |
| Egalitarian Divorce and Gittin | Barmash, Pamela | EH:119.6.2022 | 2022 | Even HaEzer, Divorce | |
| An Alternative to Maternal Identity and the Status of Children Born Using a Gestational Carrier | Brody, Suzanne | Chod, Jessica Rosenthal | Hauptman, Judith | YD 269:9.2022 | 2022 | Yoreh Deah, Conversion | |
| Calling Non-Binary People to Torah Honors | Austrian, Guy | Scheinberg, Robert | Silver, Deborah | OH 193:3.2022 | 2022 | Orah Hayim, Torah Reading | |
| Counting a Minyan via Video Conference | Heller, Joshua | OH 55:14.2021a | 2021 | Orah Hayim, Blessings | |
| A Minyan Is Constituted in Person | Fine, David | OH 55:14.2021b | 2021 | Orah Hayim, Blessings | |
| Wearing Face Covering, Physical Distancing, and Other Measures to Control the COVID-19 Pandemic | Dorff, Elliot | Grossman, Susan | HM 427:8.2021b | 2021 | Hoshen Mishpat, Health and Safety | |
| Does Halakhah Require Vaccination Against Dangerous Diseases Such as Measles, Rubella, Polio, and COVID-19? | Golinkin, David | HM 427:8.2021ab | 2021 | Hoshen Mishpat, Health and Safety | |
| Concurrence to Vaccination and Ethical Questions Posed by COVID-19 Vaccines | Nevins, Daniel | HM 427:8.2021ac | 2021 | Hoshen Mishpat, Health and Safety | |
| Vaccination and Ethical Questions Posed by COVID-19 Vaccines | Peltz, Micah | HM 427:8.2021aa | 2021 | Hoshen Mishpat, Health and Safety | |
| Reading Megillat Esther Under Covid Precautions | Reisner, Avram | OH 690:3.2021 | 2021 | Orah Hayim, Megillah | |
| Assisted Suicide/Aid in Dying Reconsidered | Dorff, Elliot | YD 345.2020 | 2020 | Yoreh Deah, Mourning | |
| A Dissent to “Egalitarian Kiddushin and Ketubbah,” by Rabbi Pamela Barmash | Labovitz, Gail | EH 27:6.2020b | 2020 | Even HaEzer, Kiddushin and Ketubbah | |
| Modification of the Triennial Cycle Readings for Combined Parashot in Certain Years | Cohen, Miles B. | OH 137.2020a | 2020 | Orah Hayim, Torah Reading |