וְאַחַ֖ר יָ֣לְדָה בַּ֑ת וַתִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמָ֖הּ דִּינָֽה.

דינה – פירשו רבותינו: דנה בעצמה, אם זה זכר, לא תהא רחל אחותי כאחת השפחות, ונתפללה ונהפך לנקבה. 

רש'י בראשית ל':כ'א

As the Jewish people readied themselves to read the Parsha that details the birth of  11 of the men who founded the Shivtei Kah

and the angst and prayers that preceded them

The Issur Ben Tzvi Hersh

Tshuvos and Poskim Shiur  of the Yeshiva of Newark@IDT

was honored to feature

the renowned author, educator and Posek

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper

Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership,

author of

Divine Will and Human Experience: Explorations of the Halakhic System and its Values

To present a shiur dedicated to

לעילוי נשמת his recently niftar father

יעקב בן הרב שלמה

a”h,

 the distinguished professor and inventor

Dr. Jacob Klapper,

a discussion of the interrelationship of science and halakhah

as they concern

The Gestation and Birth of Dinah

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The Yeshiva of Newark offers our condolences to the entire family on their loss

Rabbi Aryeh Klapper is Dean of the Center for Modern Torah Leadership, Rosh Beit Midrash of its Summer Beit Midrash Program and a former member of the Boston Beit Din.

Rabbi Klapper is a widely published author in prestigious Hebrew and English journals. He is frequently consulted on issues of Jewish law from representatives of all streams of Judaism and responds from an explicit and uncompromised Orthodox stance.

The Yeshiva of Newark @IDT is proud to partner with Rabbi Klapper to help spread his scholarly thoughtful ideas and Halachic insight to as wide an audience as possible .

Please visit

http://www.torahleadership.org/

for many more articles and audio classes from Rav Klapper and to find out about his Summer programs as well as Rabbi Klapper's own podcast site

https://anchor.fm/aryeh-klapper.

On Rosh Chodesh Kislev

The Issur Ben Tzvi Hersh

Tshuvos and Poskim Shiur

was honored to present a special

Thanksgiving Day lecture by

The person who trail blazed modern research of National Holidays

and crafted what has become a classic approach for many Modern Orthodox Jews in celebrating the magnificent gifts this country has bestowed upon our community

one of the leading Jewish scholars of our day

Rabbi Michael J.Broyde

 professor of law at Emory University School of Law

 senior fellow and projects director

 at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion

he focused on the opinion of the  Posek HaDor HaAvar for American Jewry and beyond

Rabbeinu Moshe Feinstein ZTVK”L

“How is this day different from all other days?”

 Listening to the Four Answers

Thanksgiving: 

The Complex and Contradictory Tshuvos of Rav Moshe Feinstein 

Rabbi Michael J. Broyde is professor of law at Emory University School of Law and senior fellow and projects director at the Center for the Study of Law andReligion at Emory University. Broyde's Semicha (yoreh yoreh ve-yadin yadin) was obtained in 1991 from Yeshiva University ,he was a Dayan of the Beth Din of America, where he also served as Menahel . He was the Founding Rabbi of the Young Israel of Atlanta. Rabbi Kivelevitz discusses with Broyde aspects of his newest work Settingthe Table: An Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein’s Arukh HaShulhan(co-authored with Shlomo Pill of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion) .The conversation serves as a cogent explication of how the Aruch HaShulchan differs essentially from the Mishna Brurah in aims and methodology. Rabbi Broyde's most recent books are Sex in the Garden: Consensual Encounters Gone Bad in Genesis(Wifpf & Stock, 2019),Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels: Religious Arbitration in America and the West(Oxford Press, 2017) andA Concise Code of Jewish Law for Converts(Urim, 2017). In addition to his many books, Broydehas written more than 250 articles and book chapters on various aspects of law and religion, Jewish law, and religious ethics, as well as an often-cited article on impeachment in theHarvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.He has written on military ethics from a Jewish law view, marriage and divorce in the Jewish tradition, bioethical dilemmas from a religious view, women’s rights in the Jewish tradition, the general relationship between secular and Jewish law in its many different facets. A list of his works may be found on hiswebsite.Broydehas been a visiting professor at Stanford,Hebrew University,and most recently theUniversity of Warsaw Law School in Polandand in theInterdisciplinaryCollege of Lawin Herzliya,Israel.He received a juris doctorfrom New York University and published a note on its law review. He also clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit