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Keeping Kosher in the Age of AI
By Chaim SaimanAs advanced computing allows food to be created in radically new ways, standard kosher categories will become increasingly less useful. What happens then?
Chaim Saiman
Chaim Saiman is the chair in Jewish law at the Charles Widger School of Law at Villanova University and the author of Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law (Princeton 2018).
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The Zoom-Seder Ruling Reveals New Fractures and Coalitions in the World of Jewish Orthodoxy
By Chaim SaimanFrom Ashkenazi and Sephardi to strict and lenient.
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In Rejecting the Zoom Seder, What Did Orthodox Jews Affirm?
By Chaim SaimanWhat the headline-making rabbinic showdown over online seders reveals about Jewish law and its limits.
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What Happens in Heaven? Study. Of What? Jewish Law.
By Chaim Saiman"In heaven there will be no law," an American legal giant once wrote. For Jews, it's exactly the opposite.
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The Paths Not Taken
By Chaim SaimanThere have been two moments in the last 150 years when the assumptions behind Jewish law seemed poised to change. Nothing happened. Is today different?
