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Bruce James
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38 votes
11 answers
5k views

Is there any evidence that Rabbi Akiva's students fought alongside Bar Kochba?

24 votes
2 answers
3k views

Is it forbidden to wear a snap-brim Borsalino fedora on Shabbos?

22 votes
4 answers
843 views

If a woman had more than one husband, to which would she be united at the Resurrection?

21 votes
5 answers
2k views

Getting body piercings

16 votes
2 answers
657 views

Were there any sages who supported the Zealots during the siege of Jerusalem?

15 votes
2 answers
1k views

Did the kohanim wear tefillin during their Temple services?

14 votes
1 answer
728 views

Is it improper to invite a few single girls and a few single boys for a Shabbos meal to help fight the "shidduch crisis"

14 votes
3 answers
481 views

Asking a shaila where disclosure of classified information might be necessary

13 votes
1 answer
555 views

Loshon Hara against public Jewish and non-Jewish figures

13 votes
3 answers
764 views

Why was Hosea acceptable to the people if he took his adulterous wife back?

13 votes
2 answers
994 views

Is the Story About Members of Beis Shammai Killing Members of Beis Hillel True?

12 votes
2 answers
703 views

If a convert goes off the derekh, must he go to the mikvah again after he repents?

12 votes
4 answers
3k views

If my home is on fire on Shabbos or Yom Tov, what can I do?

12 votes
2 answers
458 views

Why do we call the Festival of Matzos "Passover"?

11 votes
4 answers
421 views

Is there a concept in Jewish law similar to a corporation?

11 votes
4 answers
3k views

What parts of the Septuagint are and are not reliable?

11 votes
3 answers
4k views

If the label says OU-D, but the warning label for allergy sufferers says "no dairy", do we consider the product dairy or not?

11 votes
2 answers
992 views

Do converts represent a "farblondzshet" neshama?

10 votes
2 answers
394 views

Do the parents of a convert merit in the afterlife for their child's decision?

10 votes
7 answers
832 views

Is there a substantive difference in meaning when the Torah uses the Hebrew verb root דבר rather than אמר?

10 votes
1 answer
536 views

Who gets shelishi if there are no Israelim?

10 votes
2 answers
930 views

Whatever happened to plumbas?

10 votes
1 answer
2k views

What is the reason behind blowing the shofar from the side of one's mouth?

10 votes
2 answers
369 views

The silence of the Rabbis -- Should they have defended Bar Kamtza?

10 votes
1 answer
555 views

Is Juneau, Alaska -- surrounded by natural barriers -- a natural eruv

10 votes
1 answer
741 views

What were the marriage rights of the temporary wives of Rav and Rav Nachman?

10 votes
2 answers
350 views

If a mourner comes to services late, in the middle of the kaddish, has he missed that kaddish?

9 votes
1 answer
166 views

Was there sentient life with free will in the worlds that G-d destroyed before making our world?

9 votes
1 answer
524 views

How is Rav Feinstein's psak regarding subway travel and the sexes distinguished today by those wanting to sit separately on buses and planes?

9 votes
1 answer
263 views

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