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)
Volume 2
Orach Chayim: Worship, Shabbat, and Festival Observance
May a Non-Jew Wear a Tallit? (5765.5)
Times for the Shacharit Service (5765.2)
Matriarchs in the T’filah (5763.6)
B’rachah and Gender (5767.1)
Bar/Bat Mitzvah on a Festival (5762.6)
Yoreh Dei-ah: Ritual Observance
May Non-Jews Participate in the Writing of a Torah Scroll? (5765.1)
A Defective “Holocaust” Torah Scroll (5760.3)
Proper Disposal of Religious Texts (5762.1)
A Convert’s Hebrew Name (5760.6)
Conversion When the Spouse Remains a Gentile (5760.5)
Conversion of an Illegal Immigrant (5763.4)
Compulsory Immunization (5759.10)
Human Stem Cell Research (5761.7)
Live Liver Transplantation (5763.2)
Hastening the Death of a Potential Organ Donor (5763.3)
Gentiles and Jewish Mourning Rites (5760.4)
When a Parent Instructs a Child Not to Say Kaddish (5766.1)
When a Parent Requests Cremation (5766.2)
A Question of Disinterment (5767.3)
Even Ha-Eizer: Personal Status, Marriage, and Family Life
Adoption, Conversion, and “Patrilineal” Descent (5767.2)
An Adopted Asian Child (5760.9)
Presumption of Jewish Identity (5760.2)
Donations to Synagogue by Messianic Jews (5761.2)
Including the Name of a Stepfather in One’s Jewish Name (5765.8)
A “Hebrew Name” for a Non-Jewish Parent (5762.2)
May a Jew Join the Society of Friends? (5764.3)
Commitment Ceremonies for Heterosexual Couples; Jewish Wedding Ceremony in the Absence of a Civil Marriage License (5764.4)
May a Jew Married to a Non-Jew Become a Rabbi? (5761.6)
Choshen Mishpat: The Life of the Community
Minimal Dues for Congregational Membership (5764.5)
Synagogue Dues Relief and Income Tax Returns (5765.3)
Collection of Debts to the Congregation (5764.1
Solicitation of Synagogue Members by Other Jewish Organizations (5763.1)
Sharing the Synagogue’s Membership List (5763.7)
A Sex Offender in the Synagogue (5765.4)
Rabbinical Autonomy and Collegiality (5761.3)
Withholding Paternity Information from a Father (5760.8)
Copyright and the Internet (5761.1)
The Synagogue and Organized Labor (5761.4)
Boycotts in the Name of Social Justice (5762.4)
Inheritance: How Much to Leave to a Child? (5765.10)
Preventive War (5762.8)
Hunger Strike: On the Force Feeding of Prisoners (5766.3)
Index to Volume 1 and 2