Halacha
The Moral Response to Radical Evil – A Jewish Perspective on War
SSRN (pre-print)
2024 / 5784
Brit Mila on Rosh Hashana – On Ultimate Values
In this drasha, we learn how Brit Mila and Rosh Hashana both embody the values of accepting God’s authority and recalling that such acceptance demands self-sacrifice, as seen in the halacha concerning when Brit Mila coincides with Rosh Hashana.
Polemics on Perfection – Maimonides’ Last Law on Slaves Resolves the Debate
Review of Rabbinic Judaism
2024 / 5784
A Jewish Theological Perspective on Technology
St. Andrews Encyclopedia Of Theology (SAET)
2024 / 5784
Darkness We Have Come to Dispel – Between The Light of Hannuka and the Black Shabbat
Why would you sell your clothes to light Hannuka candles? This video illuminates how the flickering flames uplift our faith, unite our people, and inspire the world – thus kindling the eternal light inside us that can help dispel even the darkest evil.
Let us make man in our image-a Jewish ethical perspective on creating conscious robots
AI and Ethics
2023 / 5783
Autonomous Weapons Systems and Battlefield Dignity – A Jewish Perspective
“Alexa, How Do You Feel about Religion?” Technology, Digitization and Artificial Intelligence in the Focus of AI
2023 / 5783
On Broken Pitoms and Mitzvot DeOrayta
A halachic analysis on the risks and rewards of having an etrog with a pitom.
The Virtuous Servant Owner – A Paradigm Whose Time has Come (Again)
Frontiers in Robotics and AI
2022 / 5782
Burial Afar – On Halacha and Technology
When to start shiva, How to change/apply halacha, DRASH
Kosher Cheeseburger?!
Cultured, Stem Cell Meat, Halacha, Kashrut, Science, Parshat Vayera, Shemini, Re’eh, Shavuot
Hannuka Lights and Light Amongst the Nations
“The Beloved Mitzvah”, Halacha, Sell Clothes to light candles, Hannuka, DRASH
The Trolley Problem Just Got Digital – Ethical Dilemmas in Programming Autonomous Vehicles
Forthcoming in B.D.D.
2024 / 5784
God, History, and Blessing Hallel on Yom HaAtzmaut
Belief in God, Joy, Gratitude, Halacha, Yom HaAtzmaut, DRASH
Agent of Sin
Responsibility, Culpability, Halacha, Parshat Vayishlach, Bo, Mishpatim, Ki Teitzei, Shavuot
Flattery will get you …
Yaakov, Eisav, Agripas, Obsequiousness, Halacha, Parshat Vayishlach, Masei, Purim
A Woman’s Voice
Kol Isha, halacha, leadership, music, sensuality, aesthetics, Parshat Beshalach, Shevii Shel Pesah
Metzitzah BePeh
Safety, Sakana, Health, Medicine, Reform, Halacha, Parshat Lech Lecha, Vayera, Tazria
Jericho – And the walls came tumblin’ down
Jericho, Philosophy, Archeology, Halacha, Parshat Shelach
Rosh Hodesh Adar – Reflections on Dialectical Experience
Arutz Sheva Judaism
2009 / 5769