▪ Argues that husband can withhold get if wife files false police report that affects custody: False Accusations and the Withholding of a Get
▪ More on R Elyashiv on reporting abuse to police: Discovering Rav Elyashiv Revisited
▪ Interesting how Facebook streams are news sources. Be careful what you post: Respect all Jewish streams, Rabbi Stav says after Knesset blow-up
▪ Relatives of man in divorce scandal resign from Artscroll
▪ Exactly what I’ve been saying: Conservative Judaism may be failing but its ideas are not
▪ Brooklyn Hebrew charter school gets F in N.Y. evaluation
▪ Jonathan Sacks on European Anti-Semitism, Israel’s Chief Rabbinate, and More
▪ Fascinating review of Brain Death book: Community Voices in Medical Ethics: Between the Quotation Marks
▪ Chicago Rabbinical Council Top Ten Kashrus Questions for October 2013
“Withholding a Get” — Yuck. Whatever happened to הנעלבין ואינן עולבין?
Good point about what to call “brain death”, as soon as you’ve named something you’ve defined it. Just as those who hold that muscovy duck is an ohf tamei call it just “muscovy”, and the Johannesburg beis din will tell you that “kingklip” is a dag tahor, they’ll never call it “cusk-eel.”
For those who are looking for another point of view on Rabbi/Dr. Shabtai’s book on Brain Death, I reviewed it(along with Rav/Dr. Avraham Steinberg’s book) here: http://www.yctorah.org/images/stories/about_us/%235%20-%20stadlan.pdf
Short summary: Rav Shabai’s book is valuable as a collection of sources. However, it is not, as he claims, an unbiased review and analysis of the data. His biases show in the analysis, and the scientific data he presents is erroneous.