Zev I. Farber
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Homosexual Relationships and Orthodox Judaism
Painted Wolf · 2026
Halakhic Realities: Collected Essays on Brain Death
Maggid · editor
Halakhic Realities: Collected Essays on Organ Donation
Maggid · editor
Halakha For All
Beyond Orthodoxy
Medical ethics
Brain death, organ donation, autopsies
Autopsies I: A Survey of the Debate
paper
Autopsies II: The National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives
paper
Corneal Transplants: Saving a Life or Quality of Life?
paper
Skin Grafts and Skin Banks
paper
Rabbi Hershel Schachter on Vital Organs: A Response
paper
Participating in Clinical Trials
Q&A
Metzitzah be-Peh and Protecting Jewish Infants
PDF
Are Body Farms Permissible?
Q&A
Thinking Ahead and Out Loud About Brain Death
paper
Halachic Realities: Collected Essays on Organ Donation
book
Halakhic Realities: Collected Essays on Brain Death
book
Women
Agunah, modesty, prayer
Agunah
Les Misérables and the Agunah Situation
No Agunah Left Behind: A Proposal to Solve the Agunah Crisis
PDF
Solving the Agunah Problem Means Finding the Right Address
Multipronged Prenuptial Agreement
paper
Desexualizing Public Space
PDF
Paternalism, Sex Abuse, and the Eternally Unchanging Torah
Sexism and Modesty
Enough Already with the Modesty Police
Frum Bridalplasty? On Shidduch Dating and Bean Counting
PDF
Women's Funeral Practices
paper
Prayer
Reimagining the Orthodox Synagogue: A Feminist Reading
Women's Participation in Ritual: Time for a Paradigm Shift
PDF
Tefillin and Clean Bodies - Part 1: Elisha's Wings
PDF
Tefillin and Clean Bodies - Part 2: Women and Tefillin
PDF
Partnership Minyanim: A Defense and Encomium
PDF
Partnership Minyanim: A Follow Up
PDF
The Creation Blessings and the Morning Blessings: A Case Study in the Fluidity of Liturgy
paper
Morning Creation Blessings: An Alternative
paper
Davening Among the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes
PDF
Saying Sh'ma Without a License, or, How to Get Strip-Searched by Praying at the Kotel
Alternative Berakhot for Women's Torah Reading: Article
PDF
Alternative Berakhot for Women's Torah Reading: Text
paper
"Shelo Asani Isha" - A Critique of Contemporary 'Bloggic' Discourse
LGBTQ
LGBTQ Jews and Orthodoxy
Response to Nashim Mesolelot (in Jeffrey Fox, Nashim Mesolelot: Lesbian Women and Halakha, Ben Yehudah Press, 2023)
Yaakov Levado: "Gayness and God" (in The New Jewish Canon, 2020)
Conversion Therapy: It Isn't What It Sounds Like
Why Orthodox Synagogues Should Welcome Gay Couples
Transgender Orthodox Jews
PDF
Gay Orthodox Jews Deserve Our Support
Obama's Advocacy of Gay Marriage: An Alternative Orthodox Response
PDF
Homosexuals in the Orthodox Community
PDF
טיפולי המרה עוברים על איסורי תורה
Hebrew
Conversion
Conversion
IRF Conversion Guidelines
PDF
The Ger as Judge and Public Figure
paper
The Ger on a Conversion Panel
paper
Abuse and advocacy
Sexual abuse in the community
Paternalism, Sex Abuse, and the Eternally Unchanging Torah
Contacting an Abusive Parent
Q&A
Three Types of Sex Abuse: Thoughts on the Return of Moti Elon to Public Life
Turning an Abuser Over to the Authorities
Q&A
Hormone Suppresants for Yeshiva Students with Smartphones?
Hiding Sexual Abuse: A Lesson from Rabbi Rosenberg's Big Shofar
PDF
Letter to the Forward: Please Explain the Elie Wiesel Retraction (2017)
Responsa
Questions and answers
Short answers written for
Jewish Values Online
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Work Ethics
Jewish Values of Work
Q&A
Respect for Co-Workers - Attending Funerals
Q&A
Work vs. Judaism: Ethics at Odds
Q&A
Sexuality
Dating a Non-Jew
Q&A
Assorted
Tattooing a Number
Q&A
Singing in a Church Choir
Q&A
Limits on Sexual Behavior in Marriage?
Q&A
Debating an Escort
Q&A
Sacred Sperm
video
Jews on Reality TV
Q&A
Changing Minhag
Q&A
Kosher Meat
Q&A
Mixing Breeds
Q&A
Are Body Farms Permissible?
Q&A
Participating in Clinical Trials
Q&A
Academic
Articles and chapters
Extending the Definition of Life-Saving in Halakha, with Irving (Yitz) Greenberg: four studies (Halakhic Realities: Organ Donation, 2017)
paper
Vital Organs: A Note on the Concept as Used in Temple Vows (Halakhic Realities: Brain Death, 2015)
paper
Creation Blessings and Morning Blessings: A Case Study in the Fluidity of Liturgy (Keren 2, 2014)
paper
Reimagining the Orthodox Synagogue: A Feminist Reading (Conversations 17, 2013)
paper
The Ger as Judge and Public Figure (Keren 1, 2013)
paper
The Ger on a Conversion Panel (Keren 1, 2013)
paper
Extra-Legal Punishments in Medieval Jewish Courts (Mishpetei Shalom, 2010)
paper
Women, Funerals, and Cemeteries (JOFA Journal, 2008)
paper
The Development of the Three-Day Limit for Salting (Milin Havivin 1, 2005)
paper
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