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| Title | Authors | SA Code | Year | SA Category | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Videotaping on Shabbat | Lincoln, David | OH 340:3.1982a | 1982 | Orah Hayim, Shabbat | |
| May a Pre-Bar Mitzvah Boy Read from the Torah? | Lincoln, David | OH 282:3.1982b | 1982 | Orah Hayim, Shabbat | |
| May a Minor Read from the Torah? | Roth, Joel | OH 282:3.1982a | 1982 | Orah Hayim, Shabbat | |
| A Teshuvah on Abortion | Klein, Isaac | HM 425:2.1983e | 1983 | Hoshen Mishpat, Harming Others | |
| Prenatal Testing and Abortion | Abelson, Kassel | HM 425:2.1983d | 1983 | Hoshen Mishpat, Harming Others | |
| Statement on the Permissibility of Abortion | Abelson, Kassel | Bokser, Ben Zion | HM 425:2.1983c | 1983 | Hoshen Mishpat, Harming Others | |
| Abortion: Major Wrong or Basic Right? | Gordis, Robert | HM 425:2.1983b | 1983 | Hoshen Mishpat, Harming Others | |
| Abortion: The Jewish View | Feldman, David | HM 425:2.1983a | 1983 | Hoshen Mishpat, Harming Others | |
| A Proposal for the Text of the Ketubbah | Gordis, Robert | EH 66:6.1983c | 1983 | Even HaEzer, Kiddushin and Ketubbah | |
| Sociological Reality and Textual Traditions: Their Tension in the Ketubbah | Gordis, Daniel | Roth, Joel | EH 66:6.1983b | 1983 | Even HaEzer, Kiddushin and Ketubbah | |
| The Text of the Ketubbah | Shapiro, Morris | EH 66:6.1983a | 1983 | Even HaEzer, Kiddushin and Ketubbah | |
| The Use of Mausoleums for Jewish Burial | Lincoln, David | YD 362:1.1983 | 1983 | Yoreh Deah, Mourning | |
| May a Mausoleum Be Used for Jewish Burial? | Feldman, Morris | YD 362:1.1983 | 1983 | Yoreh Deah, Mourning | |
| A Statement on Funerals in the Synagogue | Bokser, Ben Zion | YD 353:3.1983 | 1983 | Yoreh Deah, Mourning | |
| Kashering a Microwave Oven for Pesah | Abelson, Kassel | OH 451:5.1983 | 1983 | Orah Hayim, Pesah and Kashering | |
| A Response to Rabbi Mayer Rabinowitz | Roth, Joel | HM 7.4.1984d | 1984 | Hoshen Mishpat, Jurisprudence | |
| A Response to Rabbi Joel Roth | Rabinowitz, Mayer | HM 7.4.1984c | 1984 | Hoshen Mishpat, Jurisprudence | |
| On the Ordination of Women as Rabbis | Roth, Joel | HM 7.4.1984b | 1984 | Hoshen Mishpat, Jurisprudence | |
| An Advocate's Halakhic Responses on the Ordination of Women | Rabinowitz, Mayer | HM 7.4.1984a | 1984 | Hoshen Mishpat, Jurisprudence | |
| Synagogue Honors for the Intermarried Jew: A Dissenting Opinion | Abelson, Kassel | Agus, Jacob | Dorff, Elliot | Feldman, Morris | Lincoln, David | Nadich, Judah | Rabinowitz, Mayer | Tucker, Gordon | EH 16.1984b | 1984 | Even HaEzer, Interpersonal Relations |