<div class="short-description" style="margin: 25px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; float: left; clear: both; font-family: Alef, serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><div class="std" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Halakha cannot be studied in a vacuum, but must be analyzed in light of its historical, political, scientific, and ethical context. Dedicated to the major halakhic questions of our time,<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Halakhic Realities&nbsp;</i>brings together rabbis, philosophers, scientists, and other professionals to explore the intersections of Jewish law and reality from several angles and multiple points of view.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">&nbsp;</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Essays by:</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">&nbsp;</p><ul dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; list-style: none; background: transparent;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Dr. Marc Angel</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Yuval Cherlow</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Dr. Zev Farber</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Stephen Flatow, Esq.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Blu Greenberg</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Dr. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Dr. Donniel Hartman</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Aryeh Klapper</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Dr. Eugene Korn</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Dr. Binyamin (Benny) Lau</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rosh Kehilah Dina Najman</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Dr. Ariel Picard</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Dr. Nehemia Polen</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Dr. Ari Schick</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Joseph Telushkin</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Dr. Avraham (Avie) Walfish</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Binyamin Walfish</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Jason Weiner, B.C.C.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Judith Weil</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Avraham (Avi) Weiss</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background: transparent;">Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz</li></ul></div></div><br>