Volume 1
Acknowledgements
Introduction: On Halachah and Reform Judaism
Orach Chayim: Worship, Shabbat, and Festival Observance Orthodox Minyan in a Reform
Synagogue (5758.12)
“HaTikvah” and “The Star-Spangled Banner” (5758.10)
Transporting a Torah Scroll to a Private Bat Mitzvah Ceremony (5758.9)
Presenting a Check for Tzedakah at Shabbat Services (5756.4)
The Synagogue Thrift Shop and Shabbat (5757.7)
The Second Festival Day and Reform Judaism (5759.7)
Pesach Kashrut and Reform Judaism (5756.9)
Yoreh Dei-ah: Ritual Observance
Names of Donors on Synagogue Windows (5756.3)
Proper Disposal of a Worn Sefer Torah (5757.4)
A “Proper” Reform Mikveh (5756.6) 89 Circumcision for an Eight-Year-Old Convert (5756.13)
Conversion for Adopted Children (5759.1
Conversion of a Person Suffering from Mental Illness (5758.7)
Medical Experimentation: Testing Drugs Made of Pork By-Products (5758.8)
Disinterment from a Jewish to a Nondenominational Cemetery (5756.5)
Argument Over a Tombstone (5756.7)
Even Ha-Eizer: Personal Status, Marriage, and Family Life
In Vitro Fertilization and the Status of the Embryo (5757.2) 9
In Vitro Fertilization and the Mitzvah of Childbearing (5758.3)
Baptism and Jewish Status (5759.2)
Baby Naming for a Religiously-Mixed Lesbian Couple (5758.2)
On Patrilineal Descent, Apostasy, and Synagogue Honors (5758.11)
The “Falas Mura” (5757.3)
On Homosexual Marriage (5756.8)
Long-Term Nonmarital Relationships (5756.10)
A Nontraditional Marriage (5756.14)
May a Jew Married to a Gentile Serve as a Religious School Teacher? (5758.14)
Divorce of an Incapacitated Spouse (5756.15) 281 Divorce and Legal Separation (5758.13)
Choshen Mishpat: The Life of the Community
A Blind Person as a Witness (5759.8)
The Reform Rabbi’s Obligations toward the UAHC (5758.1) 311
Who Is a Rabbi? (5759.3)
Privacy and the Disclosure of Personal Medical Information (5756.2)
Reproving a Congregation for Violations of Tax Law (5758.4)
Loyalty to One's Company versus Love for Israel (5757.1)
Tattooing, Body Piercing, and Jewish Tradition (5759.4)