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Will Jewish Tradition Adapt to AI?
By Moshe KoppelJudaism has the resources to confront artificial intelligence, if Jews are prudent about how to use them.

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Judaism has the resources to confront artificial intelligence, if Jews are prudent about how to use them.

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Jews can help the wider world fight the excesses of artificial intelligence, but in order to do so they need to learn how to speak about such matters in a language non-Jews understand.

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More than most, Modern Orthodoxy is a movement constantly ensnared by ideological disputes. Here’s how it can survive.

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The author of our May essay on the Zoom seder joins us to talk about his ideas and the debate surrounding them.

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From Ashkenazi and Sephardi to strict and lenient.

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The Zoom-seder ruling was intended to ease human suffering, but it was also, in effect, a maneuver for influence within the Sephardi rabbinate and a bid to resist historical forgetfulness.

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How the Zoom-seder debate opens up on questions of virtual reality.

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Lenient rulings in response to new situations are not necessary if unfortunate accommodations, they are instead a testament to the strength and durability of Judaism.

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Some families prefer the connection it offers. But an online seder seems like an acknowledgement of generational failure, a stopgap measure to keep nostalgic religious affiliation afloat.

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What the headline-making rabbinic showdown over online seders reveals about Jewish law and its limits.

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Those with greater ability to help are called upon to bear greater risk.

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"In heaven there will be no law," an American legal giant once wrote. For Jews, it's exactly the opposite.

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Is a biblical commandment against taking a mother bird with her young intended to teach mercy, or is it about something else?

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My book opened the closed door of halakhic decision-making. Some think that process isn't for public consumption.

Monthly Essay ·
The culture wars have come to the Modern Orthodox movement. Is a schism on the horizon?

Monthly Essay ·
The Reform and Conservative branches of the Jewish religious world have been eager to institute gay marriage. The only outlier is Orthodoxy. What's at stake?

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A reply to my respondents.

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Orthodox rabbis need to stop worrying about 200-year-old battles with “Reformers” and allow Jewish law to develop organically, as it always did in the past.

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There have been two moments in the last 150 years when the assumptions behind Jewish law seemed poised to change. Nothing happened. Is today different?

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The Jewish Legal Tradition and Its Discontents

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A Modest Proposal

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