Are Jewish Laws of Modesty Ultimately Subjective?- Talking with Rabbi Michael J. Broyde

Please click on this link to contribute whatever you can to keep this podcast on the air:  https://thechesedfund.com/yeshivaofnewarkpodcast/keeping-the-ark-afloat  With downloads approaching the million mark-and an archival library numbering in the thousands, the Yeshiva ofNewark Podcast has been striving to continuously upgrade our content, and professionalize our audio sound, along with altering approaches in light ofmuch appreciated listener feedback.  A niche has been carved out that resonates with many on the wide spectrum of Observant Jews.  This explains why we continually rank high in independent on-line lists of top Yeshiva podcasts.   This proud edifice is in real danger of toppling and disappearing.  We need the help of our listeners to continue to record and edit, and to promote a product that has been a balm and instructive to so many.   Just 36 dollars, a minimum donation, from a thousand of you out there will keep usafloat as a New Ark of straight, intelligent, and humorous discussion,lectures, debate and inquiry - while the destructive waters of ignorance and politics crash around us  Rabbi Michael J. Broyde is professor of law at Emory University School of Law and senior fellow and projects director at the Center for the Study of Law andReligion at Emory University. Broyde's Semicha (yoreh yoreh ve-yadin yadin) was obtained in 1991 from Yeshiva University ,he was a Dayan of the Beth Din of America, where he also served as Menahel . He was the Founding Rabbi of the Young Israel of Atlanta. In addition to his many books, Broyde has written more than 250 articles and book chapters on various aspects of law and religion, Jewish law, and religious ethics, as well as an often-cited article on impeachment in theHarvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.He has written on military ethics from a Jewish law view, marriage and divorce in the Jewish tradition, bioethical dilemmas from a religious view, women’s rights in the Jewish tradition, the general relationship between secular and Jewish law in its many different facets. A list of his works may be found on hiswebsite.Broydehas been a visiting professor at Stanford,Hebrew University,and most recently theUniversity of Warsaw Law School in Polandand in theInterdisciplinaryCollege of Lawin Herzliya,Israel.He received a juris doctorfrom New York University and published a note on its law review. He also clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. This podcast has been graciously sponsored by JewishPodcasts.fm. There is much overhead to maintain this service so please help us continue our goal of helping Jewish lecturers become podcasters and support us with a donation: https://thechesedfund.com/jewishpodcasts/donate