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Emloyment, slavery, and rights-language in halakhah

The Employment-Slavery Continuum

Levinas on כי לי בני ישראל עבדים

August 5 at YI Sharon

Discusses articles by R.Drs Itamar Rosensweig/Shua Mermelstein and Dr Benny Porat

last in a series on American Orthodox history via Igrot Mosheh August 3 2026 at YI Sharon

Discusses Rabbi Dr, Alex Ozar's article on R. Shimon Shkop

Robert Cover on rights and duties

Orthodox Inferility, right to a normal life, continued

Discusses Rabbi Klapper article on Orthodox infertility and the "right to a normal life"

Intended to be "Should the Sanhedrin Be Elected?", but many productive digressions later, we didn't quite get there. Third in the series on Jewish political theory. July 29 2026 at YI Sharon

The right to stay home?

July 28 at SBM 2026

Part 3 of the American History via Igrot Mosheh series

Discusses Rabbi Norman Lamm's argument that Halakhah recognizes a general right to privacy