Validity of DNA Evidence for Halakhic Purposes (Part 4): The “Jewish” Gene

J. David Bleich Summer 2020 Issue 52.3

Post of author J. David Bleich

The Problem of Identity in Rashi, Rambam, and the Tosafists

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Treatment of the Terminally Ill

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodicial Literature: In the Wake of Birkat Ha-hammah 5769

Priestly Identity; Sonograms and the Unborn Kohen; Detached Buttons on Shabbos

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Medical and Life Insurance

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Liability for Harm Caused by Metaphysical Forces

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Observance of Shabbat by a Prospective Proselyte and by a Ger She-Mal Ve-Lo Toval

Survey of Recent Halakhic Literature: Coronavirus Queries (Part 1): Communal Prayer, Porch Minyan, A Missed Bar Mitzva

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Copyright/ Physicians’ Fees/ Tuna Fish: Continued/ Maternal Identity

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: HIV Screening of Infants

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Artificial Heart Implantation

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Use of Microwave Ovens on Shabbat/ Fasting During Pregnancy/ Dating the Ketubah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Conjoined Twins

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Transexual Surgery/ Emergency Use of An Automobile on Shabbat/ Accompanying a Patient on Shabbat/ Comet Kohoutek/ Daylight Saving Time and Morning Prayer

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Settlement in Israel/ Delayed Burial/ Sale of Commercial Enterprises to Sabbath Violators/ The Agunah Problem/ Yom Tov Sheni

Review of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: “Sale of Arms,” “Cholent,” “Recitation of Ve-Ten Tal U-Matar by Travellers”

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Haftorah From a Braille Text/ Settlement in Egypt/ Photosensitive Eyeglasses/ Tzitzit for Nylon and Polyester Garments?

Medical Malpractice and Jewish Law

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Intifada and the Gulf War/ Defying Governmental Edicts/ Declining to Carry Within an Eiruv/ Listening to a Radio on Shabbat/ Teacher’s Claim for Lost Wages/ Caterer’s Claim for Cancellation of Wedding

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Marriage of a Kohen and the Daughter of a Non-Jew

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Case of the British Conjoined Twins

Black Jews: A Halakhic Perspective

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Instant Soup on Shabbat/ Judaism and Natural Law

Women on Synagogue Boards

Coronavirus Queries (Part 2): Tuition Payment During a Pandemic; Gloves and Masks

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Use of Automatic Telephone Answering and Fax Machines on Shabbat/ Fish or Meat at a Brit Milah Repast?/ Circumcision of a Child Born Sine Concubito

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Chamez in Lake Kinneret and in the Croton Reservoir

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Surveillance Systems on Shabbat/ Soft Contact Lenses on Shabbat

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Genetic Engineering

Of Cerebral, Respiratory and Cardiac Death

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Rabbinate/ Medical Experimentation Upon Severed Organs/ Settlement in Israel in Face of Danger/ Residence in Spain/ Southern Hemisphere/ The Microphone Controversy

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Sabbath Candles for Young Girls/ Slacks/ Cold-Water Plucking/ Tay-Sachs Reexamined

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Substitution of Lottery Tickets & Products Liability

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: New York City Water

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Vegetarianism and Judaism

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Physicians’ Strikes/ Nuclear Warfare/ Hanukkah Lights for Travellers

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Babirusa: A Kosher Pig?/ Sefirat Ha-Omer and the Observance of Shavu’ot for Travellers Crossing the Dateline/ Brides Lacking a Uterus

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Judges Under Threat/ Caffeine Suppositories on Fast Days/ Tuna Fish/ Pituitary Dwarfism

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature: A $25,000,000 Funeral

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Smoking on Yom Tov/ Smoking in Public Places/ Turbot

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Pregnancy Reduction/ Kashrut Certification

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Birkat Ha-Gomel and Tefillat Ha-Derekh for Air Travelers

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Lanolin

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Aliyah Against Parental Objections/ Post-Mortem Caesarean/ Baby Formula on Passover/ Medical Questions Concerning Shabbat

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Indirect Coercion in Compelling a Get/ Automatic Banking Machines/ Jaundice and Circumcision/ Copyright to Tape Recording

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Cloning

Preemptive War in Jewish Law

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Birkat Ha-Hammah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Kiddushei Ta’ut

“Review of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature “Cheating”, “Teachers’ Unions”, “Expulsion of Students”, “Damages to School Property”, “Study of Anatomy I: Dissection”, “Study of Anatomy II: Observation””

The Metaphysics of Property Interests in Jewish Law: An Analysis of Kinyan

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Rabbinic Confidentiality

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Disposition of Fertilized Ova

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Seclusion Under Video Surveillance/ The Paradox of R. Chanina Ben Teradion

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Get of Zefat

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Blood Sugar Tests/ Use of Viagra on Shabbat

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Cadaveric Dental Implants

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: A Rainproof Sukkah/ Reading the Shema in Latin/ Oral Obligations Unsupported by Kinyan

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Smoking/ Induced Labor/ Entebbe/ Time of Death Legislation

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Constructive Agency In Religious Divorce: An Examination of Get Zikkuy

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Palliation of Pain

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Genetic Screening

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Permitting Use of a Mikveh for Non-Orthodox Conversion

Survey of Recent Ha/halakhic Periodical Literature: Beit Din,

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Prostate Surgery

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Physicians’ Strikes/ Nuclear Warfare/ Hanukkah Lights for Travellers

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Test-Tube Babies/ Severance Pay:hired Servant or Independent Contractor?/ Entebbe:II/ Cantorial Repetition

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Cochlear Implants

Judea and Samaria: Settlement and Return

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Ketubah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Hetter Iska

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodicial Literature: The Case of the Poisoned Sandwich

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature: Cadavers on Display

AIDS: A Jewish Perspective

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Hazardous Medical Procedures

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Milk Contretemps

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature: Is the Milk We Drink Kosher?

Survey of Recent Halkhic Periodical Literature: May a Sabbath-Desecrator Drink Wine?

Methodology of Psak

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Children of Mixed Mariages/ Shaving on the Intermediate Days of Festivals/ Single Sterilizer for Both Meat and Dairy Utensils/ War and Peace/ Sabbath Elevators

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Mitochondrial DNA Replacement

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Converts and Customs/ Diabetics and Shabbat

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Device of the “Sages of Spain” as a Solution to the Problem of the Modern-Day Agunah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Plastic Surgery/ Tenure/ Removal of Torah Scrolls/ Employment During the Post-Nuptial Week/ Sale of Israeli Real Estate to Non-Jews

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Compelling Tissue Donation

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Sanctity of the Liberated Territories/ Repayment of Loans and Currency Exchange/ Paper Cups for Kiddush/ Pampers

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Returning From Missions of Mercy on the Sabbath

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Cannibalism/ Extradition/ Guard Duty on the Temple Mount/ The Langer Case

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Hazardous Medical Procedures/ Impotence as Grounds for Divorce/ Privacy of Personal Correspondence/ Netilat Yadayim by Soldiers/ Immersion of Disposable Aluminum Utensils

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Litigation and Arbitration Before Non-Jews

Extending Sabbath Invitations to the Non-Observant/ Maternal Identity Revisited

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Checks

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Hypospadias and Circumcision

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Treasure Trove and Kinyan Hazer

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Kohanim and Flights Leaving Israel

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Can There be Marriage Without Marriage

Priestly Identity; Sonograms and the Unborn Kohen; Detached Buttons on Shabbos

Abortion in Halakhic Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Appeal Process in the Jewish Legal System

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Host -Mothers/ Refusal to Gran a Religious Divorce/ Apartments Over a Synagogue/ A Responsum From Behind the Iron Curtain/ Electric Substitutes for Chanukah and Sabbath Lights

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Stem Cell Burgers

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Utilization of Scientific Data Obtained Through Immoral Experimentation

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Circumcision

Validity of DNA Evidence for Halakhic Purposes (Part 3)

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Do The Deceased Enjoy Property Rights?

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Laser Circumcision

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Video Surveillance

Torture and the Ticking Bomb

The Conversion Crisis: A Halakhic Analysis

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Professional Secrecy/ Elective Surgery Prior to Shabbat/ Dating the Ketubah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Surrogate Motherhood

Survey of Recent Halakhic Literature: Validity of DNA Evidence for Halakhic Purposes (Part 1)

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Piscatorial Parasites

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Entering a Non-Jewish House of Worship

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Hetter Iska and American Courts

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Insurance Related Halakhic Questions

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Spontaneous Generation and Halakhic Inerrancy

Survey of Recent Halakhic Literature: Validity of DNA Evidence for Halakhic Purposes (Part 2): Agunah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Stem Cell Research

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Vaccination/ Money Found in an Automobile

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Mizvot in the Polar Regions and in Earth Orbit

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Torah Reading on Fast Days/ Life Insurance and the Ketubah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Silk Screened Torah Scrolls

A Review of Halakhic Literature Pertaining to the Reinstitution of the Sacrificial Order

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Harvesting Wheat for Mazah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature: Styrofoam Cups and Utensils/ Formula-Fed Veal

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Hetter Iska

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodicial Literature: Medical and Cosmetic Tattooing

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Experimental Procedures and Pikuah Nefesh/ The Concept of Refu’ah Bedukah

Resurrection and Personal Identity

A 19th Century Agunah Problem and a 20th Century Application

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Mitzvot on the Moon/ Garfish and Scad/ Rabbinic Contracts/ Mendicants/ Sounding the Trumpets/ The Names of God

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Sterilization of Women/ Tay-Sachs Disease/ Temporary Residents in Israel and Yom-Tov Sheni/ Prayer from The Bimah/ Organized Labor

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Is the Giraffe a Kosher Animal/ Burial of a Non-Jew in a Jewish Cemetery/ SheHeheyanu Upon Purchase of a New House

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Whiskey Brouha

Judaism and Animan Experimentation

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: In Vitro Fertilization: Questions of Maternal Identity and Conversion

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: War and the State of Israel/ Hijack Victims/ Induced Labor/ Circumcision on Shabbat/ Autopsies With Consent of the Deceased/ Temporary Crowns/ Mamzerut

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Crockpots on Shabbat/ Sperm Banking

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Zebu Problem/ Wheelchairs on Shabbat/ The “Roll-A-Bout”/ Choosing Between Therapies

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Women in a Minyan?/ Erev Pesach Which Occurs on Shabbat/ Sale of Chametz by Tourists/ Imprisonment or Death for Convicted Terrorists/ Dual Bar Mitzvahs/ Bat Mitzvah Celebrations

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Sacrificing the Few to Save the Many

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Teaching Torah to Non-Jews

Validity of DNA Evidence for Halakhic Purposes (Part 4): The “Jewish” Gene

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