Halacha Headlines

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Halacha Headlines episodes

February 17, 2023 2/18/23 – Shiur 408 – Looking out for Shemiras Einayim – How to deal with the scourge of pornography?
How to address this issue with our youth?
How to prevent it from becoming an issue?
What percent of Frum Yidden are struggling?
What should people who are struggling do?
Is this struggle unique in our generation?
How to get help on this taboo subject
with the founders of GYE – Guard Your eyes - 19:23
with Dr. Shlomie Zimmerman – Renowned Psycholoigist – Author of “From boys to men” - 50:43
with Rabbi Mendel Kessin – Renowned lecturer and world expert on the Ramchal - 1:12:33
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1 hr 27 min
February 10, 2023 2/11/23 – Shiur 407 – Kashrus in home establishments | How do you know if you’re really eating Kosher?
If you make products at home and sell them, do you need a Hechsher?
Why is it different than eating at someone else’s house that you don’t need a Hechsher?
Is this Hechsher different than a Hechsher on a food establishment?
How can you do spot checks in a person’s private home?
There are hundreds of Hechsherim – How do you know what you really can rely on?
What standards does a Kashrus need to have to really rely on them?
with Rabbi Moshe Elefant – COO OU Kosher, renowned Daf Yomi Maggid Shiur and Rov – 36:03
with Rabbi Shloima Perl – Head Mashgiach of KCL - Lakewood Kashrus – 1:07:06
with Rabbi Beirach Steinfeld – Head of Kashrus organization, Rov Khal Dover Tov – 1:11:08
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1 hr 47 min
February 03, 2023 2/4/23 – Shiur 406 – Is Kovea Ittim only for the wealthy and brilliant?
What gets people to stick with their learning after many years?
What’s a valid reason to miss your Kevius?
Does someone who gets paid for learning or teaching additionally need to be Kovea Ittim?
Can the Kevius change over time, like when more children are born?
What if a wife needs her husband during his learning?
Do you need to lose business/clients as a result of your learning?
Should you answer calls from clients or your boss during learning?
***Guest Hosted by Ari Wasserman *** Author of "Making it Work", "Making it ALL Work" (for women) and 10 other Seforim, Maggid Shiur, Yerushalayim
with Rabbi Zev Cohen – Rav of Adas Yeshurun, Chicago – 21:08
with Mr. Mark Salamon – owner of A-1 Appliance Repair – 43:04
with Rabbi Ilan Halberstadt – Rav of Machzikei Hadas, London – 1:02:35
with Mr. Ira Lipsius – senior partner at Lipsius-BenHaim – 1:30:07
with Rabbi Doron Lazarus – director of Executive Sleep Consulting – 1:55:45
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2 hr 11 min
January 27, 2023 1/28/23 – Shiur 405 – Whom should you marry?
How Makpid should we be on names in marriage (father in law and son in law with the same names etc)?
Can younger siblings get married before older siblings?
Marrying for money?
How important is the family (if there's a sibling off the derech etc)?
Marrying into a family of Baalei Teshuvos?
Health in the family, what do you have to divulge?
How should people be dating?
What common mistakes are they making?
How do you know if you are getting bad advice?
with Rabbi Yaakov Berman – Rov Khal Beis Tefillah Lakewood, Av Beis Din Machon L'Gittin – 16:47
with Mrs. Bella Beer – Dating coach – 46:45
with Rabbi Dr. Jack Cohen – International dating coach – 1:05:35
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1 hr 34 min
January 19, 2023 1/21/23 – Shiur 404 – Adoption in Halacha
Is there a mitzvah for a childless couple to adopt?
Are you מקיים פריה ורביה with adoption?
Is there an obligation of חיוב כיבוד אב ואם towards an adopted parent?
Balancing obligations to the natural parents VS the adoptive parents
Does an adopted child say Kaddish for his adopted parents?
How is an adoptive child called up to the Torah?
Adopting non-Jewish children VS Jewish children
Is there an Issur Yichud with adoptive parents? Hugging & kissing?
Do you have to reveal they are adopted?
with Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer– Rov, Maggid Shiur and Dayan in Yerushalayim – 13:25
with Dr. Zelig Schur – Founder, Jewish Children Adoption Network – 38:38
with Mr. Chaim Krausz – Expert on Frum Adoptions – 58:52
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1 hr 32 min
January 13, 2023 1/14/23 – Shiur 403 – Does yeshiva prepare us for life-after-yeshiva? Should it?
What preparation is necessary to leave yeshiva/kollel and start working?
What skills do yeshiva graduates say would be helpful?
What should a yeshiva consider as its goals and responsibilities towards it’s talmidim?
How do you decide on an occupation?
Should you study a trade or go straight into business?
What are the primary challenges we need to be ready for nowadays?
***Guest Hosted by Ari Wasserman *** Author of "Making it Work", "Making it ALL Work" (for women) and 10 other Seforim, Maggid Shiur, Yerushalayim
with Rabbi Aharon Lopiansky – Rosh Yeshivah and Noted Author – 12:55
with Rabbi Binyamin Rappaport – Career Guidance Counselor – 35:53
with Rabbi Zevulun Schwartzman – Rosh Kollel, Yerushalayim – 1:02:55
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1 hr 33 min
January 05, 2023 1/7/23 – Shiur 402 – Women’s role in society – Has our Halachic attitude towards women shifted over the years?
Making a Bas Mitzvah
Women giving Shiurim and writing articles in Halacha and Hashkafa
Women giving Hadracha and Paskening Shailos – Yoetzet Halacha
Women going to college and joining the workforce
Women’s Hatzalah
with Rabbi Hershel Schachter – Rosh Yeshiva of YU, Poseik of the OU – 24:51
with Rebbetzin Chana Henkin – Dean of Nishmat – 50:25
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1 hr 7 min
December 30, 2022 12/31/22 – Shiur 401 – To discuss or not to discuss - That is the Question
Should Headlines have Shiurim on sensitive issues?
Is it better to educate the public, or is it exposing Bochurim and others to things that they shouldn’t be exposed to?
Is it a lack of Tznius to discuss certain topics in public?
Is there a way to balance Tznius VS public awareness?
Does discussing certain issues promote wrong ideas?
Is it Loshon Horah to publicize allegations against a specific person or is it הצלת נפשות?
Should magazines and newspapers be running ads on these sensitive issues?
with Rabbi Mayer Schiller – Noted Chasidishe Maggid Shiur, writer and lecturer - 14:20
with Rabbi Efrem Goldberg – Rov of Boca Raton Synagogue, Rosh Yeshiva Yeshiva of South Florida – 33:29
with Rabbi Yitzchok Franfurter – Publisher of the Ami Magazine – 54:21
with Rabbi Moshe Taub – Rov in Holliswood Queens – Noted writer – 1:11:13
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1 hr 35 min
December 23, 2022 12/24/22 – Shiur 400 – Drug and alcohol use in our high schools – how big a problem is it? What can be done?
Is there something halachically wrong with using drugs? Alcohol? Vaping?
Can you tell on a classmate who is using drugs or alcohol?
What are the trends of drug and alcohol use in our high schools?
How are teenagers able to afford and access drugs?
Are we better – or worse – than secular society?
What can be done by parents and the schools?
***Guest Hosted by Ari Wasserman *** Author of "Making it Work", "Making it ALL Work" (for women) and 10 other Seforim, Maggid Shiur, Yerushalayim
with Dr. Rivka Schwartz – Professional educator and popular lecturer – 15:40
with “Dovid” – a recent high school graduate – 40:34
with Mrs. Lianne Forman – founder and executive director of CCSA – 49:40
with Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser – Rav of Khal Bais Yitzchok, noted author and speaker – 1:18:06
with Rabbi Daniel Feldman – Rosh Yeshiva at REITs, author of “False Facts and True Rumors” – 1:38:57
with “Sara” – a recent high school graduate – 1:57:42
with Dr. Debbie Akerman – Professor of social welfare and clinical social worker – 2:06:08
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2 hr 27 min
December 16, 2022 12/17/22 – Shiur 399 – Chasunah Halachos & Minhagim in all Kehilos | Eight Chanukah Riddles - Win a Chanukah gift !!!!!!
Marching down flower girls to the Chuppah – Is that a Jewish thing or is it חוקות הגוים
Standing up for the Chosson and Kallah when they walk down, is that a Jewish custom?
Are you supposed to stand up during the recital of the Sheva Brochos?
Walking down to the Chuppah – Should the parents walk down their child - or both fathers should walk down the Chosson, and both mothers the Kallah? What if they are divorced or one of the parents was Niftar?
Are the Chosson and Kallah permitted to hold hands after the Chuppah?
Should the Kallah come into the men’s side during the dancing?
Does the Kallah have to wear a Sheitel by the Chasunah?
The minhag by various Chasidim for the woman to shave her head
Mitzvah Tantz – What’s the Mitzvah? Or is it actually an Aveira?
If there’s any conflict in Minhagim, whose Minhag is done the Chosson’s or the Kallah’s?
with Rabbi Aharon Sorscher – Rov of Waterbury, Maggid Shiur Of Oraysa – 14:14
with Rabbi Yona Reiss – Av Beis Din Of The CRC, S'gan Av Beis Din of America – 36:00
with Rabbi Moshe Shmiel Rottenberg – Mora D’asra Bais Moshe Shmiel (Flatbush), Dayan, Shaarei Mishpat – 48:58
with Rabbi Yitzchok Feldheim – Renowned Lecturer – 1:12:47

Eight Chanukah Riddles – 1:18:15

מראי מקומות
1 hr 50 min