Q: Is the heter mechira ideal, or should the position of rabbis who prefer to buy produce grown by non-Jews be taken into account? It is a positive mitzvah to refrain from cultivating the Land of ...

Two weeks ago, I explained the halakhic foundations of the heter mechira (the sale of Israeli farmland to a non-Jew to avoid the prohibition of working the land in Israel during the Sabbatical shmitta ...

Mr. Cohen’s textile business is in dire need of $100,000 working capital. So Cohen approaches Mr. Mamon, a wealthy Jewish businessman. Mamon is prepared to lend Cohen the money but would like to earn ...

New York courts have usually been unreceptive to arguments that a heter iska—a legal device Orthodox Jewish rabbis developed to facilitate lending and commerce—should be treated as an enforceable ...