Sukkah 12

One of the challenges that face those studying the rabbinic mindset is to understand how difficult it is to translate accurately from one language to another and do justice to the concepts.  Nowhere is this more obvious than in discussing issues of tum’ah and taharah, which are usually translated as “impurity” and “purity.” In English, for example, these […]

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No evidence COVID vaccine contains pork, causes infertility – report

Jewish doctors warned against conspiracy theories claiming the COVID-19 vaccine causes infertility or contains products derived from pork. Jewish News reported on Friday that the open letter, signed by more than 70 British-Jewish doctors and published on Tuesday, warns against falling for such conspiracy theories and states there is “absolutely no evidence” the Pfizer vaccine […]

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