הלכות שחיטה - Kosher Slaughter
הלכות דברים היוצאים מן החי - Living Animal Products
הלכות תולעים - Worms and Insects
הלכות בשר בחלב - Meat and Milk
הלכות תערובות - Mixtures
הלכות מאכלי עובדי כוכבים - Foreign Foods
הלכות יין נסך - Kosher and Non-Kosher Wine
הלכות רבית - Monetary Interest
הלכות כתובת קעקע וקריחה - Tattooing
הלכות נדה - Niddah
הלכות תלמוד תורה - Jewish Education
הלכות צדקה - Tzedakah
הלכות מילה - Circumcision
הלכות גרים - Conversion
הלכות ספר תורה - The Torah Scroll
הלכות מזוזה - Mezuzah
הלכות כלאים - Inter-Species Mingling
הלכות פדיון בכור - Pidyon HaBen
הלכות ביקור חולים ורפואה - Visiting the Sick and Medicine
הלכות קריעה - Responding to a Death
הלכות אבילות - Mourning
הלכות שחיטה - Kosher Slaughter
- Kassel Abelson, "Is a 'K' Kosher?" YD 1:1.1993
- Elliot Dorff and Joel Roth, "Shackling and Hoisting" YD 6.2000
- Pamela Barmash, "Veal Calves" YD 24.2007a
- Paul Plotkin, "Veal Calves: A Dissenting Opinion" YD 24.2007b
- Mayer E. Rabinowitz, "A Stunning Matter: Stunning and Bolting After Shehitah" YD 27:1.2001a
- Avram Israel Reisner, "On the Matter of Stunning (and Bolting)" YD 27:1.2001b
הלכות דברים היוצאים מן החי - Living Animal Products
- Daniel Nevins, "The Kashrut of Cultured Meat" YD 81:10.2017
הלכות תולעים - Worms and Insects
- Paul Plotkin, "Insect Infestation And Our Food: The Halakhot Of Bugs” YD 84:10.2018
- Matthew Nover, "The Kashrut of Insects in Modern Times" YD 85:1.2025
הלכות בשר בחלב - Meat and Milk
- Suzanne Brody, "Lab-Grown 'Milk'" YD 87:3.2024
- Kassel Abelson, "The Kashrut of Mono- and Di-Glycerides" YD 87:10.1982
- Kassel Abelson, Mayer Rabinowitz, "Definition of a Davar Hadash" YD 87:10.1984
- Kassel Abelson, "The Kashrut of Microbial Enzymes" YD 87:10.1994
- Avram Israel Reisner, "Curiouser and Curiouser" YD 87:10.1997
- Suzanne Brody, "Gelatin Revisited" YD 87:10.2024
- Loel Weiss, "On the Kashrut of Dishwashers" YD 95:2015
- Paul Plotkin, "Pizza from a Non-Kosher Establishment" YD 108:1.2012a
- Aaron Alexander, "Pizza from a Non-Kosher Establishment: A Concurring Opinion" YD 108:1.2012b
- David Booth, "Pizza from a Non-Kosher Establishment: A Dissenting Opinion" YD 108:1.2012c
- Pamela Barmash, "Pizza from a Non-Kosher Establishment: A Dissenting Opinion" YD 108:1.2012d
הלכות מאכלי עובדי כוכבים - Foreign Foods
- Avram Israel Reisner, "The Meatless Menu" YD 113:1.2023a
- Miriam T. Spitzer, "The Meatless Menu: A Concurring Opinion" YD 113:1.2023b
- Paul Plotkin, "On Mixing Fish and Meat" YD 116:2.1998
- George Pollak, "Synagogue Policy Concerning Bringing Foods Prepared in the Home into the Synagogue" YD 119:7.1988
- Mayer Rabinowitz and Avram Reisner, "Tevilat Kelim" YD 120:1.2007
הלכות יין נסך - Kosher and Non-Kosher Wine
- Elliot Dorff, "On the Use of All Wines" YD 123:1.1985
הלכות רבית - Monetary Interest
- Ben Zion Bergman, "A Question of Great Interest: May a Synagogue Issue Interest-Bearing Bonds?" YD 167:1.1988a
- Avram Israel Reisner, "Dissent: A Matter of Great Interest" YD 167:1.1988b
הלכות כתובת קעקע וקריחה - Tattooing
- Alan Lucas, "Tattooing and Body Piercing" YD 180.1997
- Miriam Berkowitz, Susan Grossman, Avram Reisner, "Mikveh and the Sanctity of Family Relations" YD 183.2006a
- Susan Grossman, "Mikveh and the Sanctity of Being Created Human" YD 183.2006b
- Avram Reisner, "Observing Niddah in Our Day" YD 183.2006c
- Miriam Berkowitz, "Reshaping the Laws of Family Purity for the Modern World" YD 183.2006d
הלכות תלמוד תורה - Jewish Education
- Jay Stein, "V'shinantam Livanecha" YD 245:3.2009
- Elliot Dorff, "Joint Conservative-Reform Religious Schools" YD 245:15.1988
- Pamela Barmash, "Women and Mitzvot" YD 246:6.2014a
- Jeremy Kalmanofsky, "An Egalitarian Abstention" YD 246:6.2014b
- Loel M. Weiss, "Dissent on Women's Hiyuvim" YD 246:6.2014c
- Reuven Hammer, "Concurrence on Women and Mitzvot" YD 246:6.2014d
- Daniel Nevins, "Concurring Opinion on Rabbi Barmash’s Responsum on Women and Mitzvot" YD 246:6.2014e
- Avram Reisner, "Mikhal bat Kushi Wore Tefillin: A concurrence to Women and Mitzvot by Pamela Barmash" YD 246:6.2014f
- Elliot Dorff, "A Concurrence with Rabbi Pamela Barmash's Teshuvah: The Use of Principles in Jewish Law" YD 246:6.2014g
- Baruch Frydman-Kohl, "Women and Mitzvot: Abstention and Dissent" YD 246:6.2014h
- Joshua Heller, "Dissenting Opinion on Rabbi Barmash's Responsum on Women and Mitzvot" YD 246:6.2014i
- Elliot Dorff, "Donations of Ill-Gotten Gain" YD 259:2.2009
- Morris M. Shapiro, "Improperly Circumcised Children and Parents' Synagogue Membership" YD 262:1.1981
- David H. Lincoln, "Naming of an Improperly Circumcised Child" YD 262:1.1984
- Baruch Frydman-Kohl, "Post-Mortem Circumcision" YD 263:5.2016
- David Novak, "The Question of Hattafat Dam Brit (Hebrew)" YD 264:1.1982a
- Joel Roth, "Hatafat Dam Brit" YD 264:1.1982b
- Vernon Kurtz, "Anesthesia and Brit Milah" YD 264:3.1998
- Daniel Nevins, "Early Circumcision in a Pandemic" YD 264.2020
- Arnold M. Goodman, "Shabbat and Brit Milah" YD 266.1988
- Vernon Kurtz, "Induction Leading to Birth of a Baby on Shabbat and Brit Milah" YD 266:2.1996
- Joel Roth, Akiba Lubow, "A Standard of Rabbinic Practice Regarding Determination of Jewish Identity" YD 268.1986
- Ben Zion Bergman, "The Case of the Unconverted Spouse" YD 268.1993
- Herbert J. Mandl, "Conversion to Judaism Without Circumcision Due to Medical Complications" YD 268:1.1994
- David Novak, "The Status of Non-Halakhic Conversions" YD 268:3.1982
- Aaron L. Mackler, "Maternal Identity and the Religious Status of Children Born to a Surrogate Mother" YD 268:6.1997
- Avram Israel Reisner, "On the Conversion of Adopted and Patrilineal Children" YD 268:7.1988
- Joel Roth, "Should the Kashrut of Conversions Be Investigated?" YD 268:10.1984a
- David Novak, "A Teshuvah on the Subject of the Investigations of Conversions Today (Hebrew)" YD 268:10.1984b
- Steven Saltzman, "The Status of Ethiopian Jews" YD 268:10.1986
- Reuven Hammer, "On Proving Jewish Identity" YD 268:10.2011
- Steven Saltzman, "May a Conversion Obtained Through Deceit Be Annulled?" YD 268:12.1989a
- Avram Israel Reisner, "On Annulling a Conversion Obtained by Deceit: A Concurring Opinion" YD 268:12.1989b
- Morris Shapiro, "Addendum I On: May a Conversion Obtained by Deceit be Annulled" YD 268:12.1989c (part 1)
- Morris Shapiro, "Addendum 2 On: May a Conversion Obtained by Deceit be Annulled" YD 268:12.1989d (part 2)
- Gerald Zelizer, "The Return of Second Generation Apostates" YD 268:12.1995
- Kassel Abelson and Reuven Hammer, "The Status of 'Messianic Jews'" YD 268:12.2012a
- Aaron Alexander and Elie Kaplan Spitz, "A Concurring Abstention to "The Status of 'Messianic Jews' "" YD 268:12.2012b
- Barry Leff, "May a Convert Use a Name other than “Ploni ben/bat Avraham Avinu?”" YD 269:1.2010a
- Elliot Dorff, "May a Convert Use a Name other than “Ploni ben/bat Avraham Avinu?” a Concurring Opinion " YD 269:1.2010b
- Miriam Berkowitz, "May a Convert Use a Name other than “Ploni ben/bat Avraham Avinu?” A Dissenting Opinion" YD 269:1.2010c
- Gail Labovitz, "May a Convert Use a Name other than “Ploni ben/bat Avraham Avinu?” A Concurring Opinion" YD 269:1.2010d
- Judith Hauptman, Suzanne Brody, Jessica Rosenthal Chod, "An Alternative to Maternal Identity and the Status of Children Born Using a Gestational Carrier" YD 269:9.2022a
- Pamela Barmash, Amy Levin, "A Dissent to 'An Alternative to Maternal Identity and the Status of Children Born Using a Gestational Carrier'" YD 269:9.2022b
הלכות ספר תורה - The Torah Scroll
- Avram Israel Reisner, "On the Exodus of Shemot" YD 276:9.2003
- Kassel Abelson, "Official Use of God" YD 278:12.1993
- Micah Peltz, "Discarding Large Quantities of Old Siddurim and Mahzorim" YD 276:2016
- Morris Shapiro, "The Printing of the Tetragrammaton in Hebrew on Synagogue Stationery" YD 276:13.1981
- Kassel Abelson, "Display of Pasul Torah in Museum Case" YD 282.1997
- Vernon Kurtz, "Removing a Mezuzah" YD 291:2.2003
הלכות כלאים - Inter-Species Mingling
- Daniel Nevins, "Halakhic Perspectives on Genetically Modified Organisms" YD 297.2015
הלכות פדיון בכור - Pidyon HaBen
- Gerald Skolnik, "Should There Be a Special Ceremony in Recognition of a First-Born Female?" YD 305:1.1993
- Vernon Kurtz, "Delay of Pidyon HaBen" YD 305:11.1995
- Howard Handler, "Pidyon HaBen" YD 305:24.1991
הלכות ביקור חולים ורפואה - Visiting the Sick and Medicine
- Daniel Greyber and Micah Peltz, "When Should a Person Come Off the Communal Prayer List?" YD 335:4.2023
- Daniel Greyber and Micah Peltz, Study Guide for "When Should a Person Come Off the Communal Prayer List?"
- Joseph H. Prouser, "Chesed or Chiuv: The Obligation to Preserve Life and the Question of Post-Mortem Organ Donations" YD 336.1995
- Joseph Prouser, "Organ and Tissue Donation Card" YD 336.1996
- Joel Roth, "Organ Donation" YD 336.1999-
- Elliot Dorff, "Stem Cell Research" YD 336.2002
- Elliot N. Dorff and Aaron L. Mackler, "Responsibilities for the Provision of Health Care" YD 336:1.1998
- James Rosen, "Mental Retardation, Group Homes and the Rabbi" YD 336:1.2000
- Jay M. Stein, "Physician Strikes" YD 336:1.2016
- Shai Cherry, "Xenotransplantation" YD 336.2024
- Pamela Barmash, "Donating One’s Body to Medical Education and Research" YD 336:1.2024a
- Meir Szames, "A Dissenting Opinion - Donating Bodies to Science" YD 336:1.2024b
- Avram Israel Reisner, "A Halakhic Ethic of Care for the Terminally Ill" YD 339:1.1990a
- Elliot N. Dorff, "A Jewish Approach to End-Stage Medical Care" YD 339:1.1990b
- Avram Israel Reisner, "Mai Beinaihu?" YD 339:1.1990c
- Amy Eilberg, "On Halakhic Approaches to Medical Care for the Terminally Ill: A Response" YD 339:1.1990d
- Joel Roth, "A Response to Rabbis Dorff and Reisner" YD 339:1.1990e
- Aaron L. Mackler, ed., "Jewish Medical Directives for Health Care" YD 339:1.1993
- Avram Israel Reisner, "Peri- and Neo-Natology: The Matter of Limiting Treatment" YD 339.1995
- Daniel Nevins, "Triage and the Sanctity of Life" YD 339:1.2020a
- Elliot Dorff, "Triage in the Time of Pandemic: The Sanctity of Saving as Many Lives as Possible" YD 339:1.2020b
הלכות קריעה - Responding to a Death
- Isidoro Aizenberg, "Treatment of the Loss of a Fetus Through Miscarriage" YD 340:30.1987
- Debra Reed Blank, "Response to Miscarriage" YD 340:30.1991a
- Amy Eilberg, "Response to Miscarriage: An Alternate View" YD 340:30.1991b
- Stephanie Dickstein, "What Should Jewish Practice Be Following a Stillbirth?" YD 340:30.1996a
- Ben Zion Bergman, "What's In a Name?: A Concurrence and Dissent" YD 340:30.1996b
- Elliot N. Dorff, "Assisted Suicide" YD 345.1997a
- Statement on Assisted Suicide YD 345.1997b
- Elliot N. Dorff, "Assisted Suicide/Aid in Dying Reconsidered" YD 345.2020
- Kassel Abelson, "Suicide" YD 345:2.2005
- Paul Plotkin, "Burial of Jews Practicing Christianity" YD 345:5.1994
- Myron S. Geller, "Bury Him, Yes, Bury Him" YD 345:5.1998
- Morris Shapiro, "Cremation in the Jewish Tradition" YD 348.1986
- Ben Zion Bergman, "I Shall Sprinkle Pure Water Upon You and You Shall Be Purified" YD 352:3.1998
- Ben Zion Bokser, "A Statement on Funerals in the Synagogue" YD 353:3.1983
- Pamela Barmash, “Military Cemeteries and Military Funerals” YD 357:1.2018
- Noah Bickart, Baruch Frydman-Kohl, Jeremy Kalmanofsky, Jan Kaufman, Amy Levin, Jonathan Lubliner, "Concurrence to 'Military Cemeteries and Military Funerals'" YD 357:1.2018b
- Morris Feldman, "May a Mausoleum Be Used for Jewish Burial?" YD 362:1.1983
- David H. Lincoln, "The Use of Mausoleums for Jewish Burial" YD 362:1.1983
- Jeremy Kalmanofsky, "Alternative Kevura Methods" YD 362:1.2017a
- Daniel S. Nevins, Noah Bickart, Josh Heller, "Concurring Opinion on Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky’s 'Alternative Kevurah Methods'" YD 362:1.2017b
- Elliot N. Dorff, joined by Amy Levin and Kass Abelson, "Concurrence to Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky’s Paper on Alternative Modes of Burial" YD 362:1.2017c
- Myron S. Geller, "Exhuming the Dead" YD 363.1996
- Ben Zion Bergman, "A Matter of Grave Concern" YD 367:1.1991
- Myron S. Geller, "Peaceful Paths" YD 367:1.1994n
- Kassel Abelson and Loel Weiss, "Burial of a Non-Jewish Spouse" YD 367:1.2010
- Daniel S. Nevins, "Ad Heikhan Hu Bodek? -- Contemporary Criteria for the Declaration of Death" YD 370:1.2004
- Leonard Sharzer, "Organ Donation After Cardiac Death" YD 370:1.2010
- Joel Rembaum, "Converts Mourning the Death of Close Relatives" YD 374:5.1998
- Isidoro Aizenberg, "Mourning for a Newborn" YD 374:8.1987
- Stephanie Dickstein, "What Should Be Jewish Practice Following the Death of an Infant Who Lives Less Than Thirty One Days?" YD 374:8.1992a
- Avram Israel Reisner, "Kiyyam Li: A Dissenting Concurrence" YD 374:8.1992b
- Joshua Heller, "Shiva When Burial is Delayed" YD 375:2.2015
- Kassel Abelson and Mayer Rabinowitz, "Ritual of Mourning When a Body is Not Recovered" YD 375:7.2001
- Pamela Barmash and Elliot Dorff, "Shiv’ah Guide" YD 376:1.2025
- Richard Plavin and Mayer Rabinowitz, "Saying Kaddish for Twelve Months, A Valid Alternative" YD 376:4.2008
- Pamela Barmash, "How to Recite Mourner's Kaddish While Physically Distancing During a Pandemic" YD 376.4.2020
- Isidoro Aizenberg, "On the Status of Missing Persons" YD 397.1987
- Daniel Greyber, "Comforting Mourners (Nihum Aveilim) on Festivals" YD 399:1.2018
- Baruch Frydman-Kohl, "Welcoming Mourners on Shabbat" YD 400:1.2000