What happens when a year-round daylight savings time threatens to upend our early morning prayers and rituals? From Russia to America, Moshe Kurtz explains how R. Feinstein navigated both the technical challenges and the broader values-based question that emerged from this conflict.

There is a fairly self-understood principle in halakha that it is forbidden to erase the Holy Name of God. What then are the implications for recordings found on our phones and laptops? With this new season on “Unpacking the Iggerot” Moshe Kurtz shows us how R. Moshe Feinstein addressed questions that emerged with new technologies.

From Sioux City to Memphis, New York to Los Angeles, and everywhere in between, synagogues faced an internal debate about separate seating for men and women and the partitions between them. Many of them turned to none other than R. Moshe Feinstein. Moshe Kurtz lays out the halakhic debate, societal factors, and reception by one of the Iggerot Moshe’s most ardent interlocutors: The Satmar Rav.

In 1959, R. Moshe Feinstein issued what was among his most significant and controversial rulings: Permitting a woman to undergo artificial insemination. In this week’s “Unpacking the Iggerot” Moshe Kurtz examines the halakhic and social ramifications, as well as the rocky reception to this landmark ruling.