Halakhic Teshuvot

A Responsum (Teshuva) on Wearing a Tallit Before Marriage

Why it is both permissible and encouraged for non-married men to wear a Tallit, and the broader sociological implications of such an approach.

Who Lights Nerot Shabbat? A Guide for all Households

A guide for all households - married, single, queer, straight - in figuring out who light Shabbat candles.

Yosef Was a Pretty Boy: The Halakhot of Men Looking Fabulous

The laws regarding male beautification and fashion.

Aliyot for Adopted Children

The parameters for how adopted children may be called up to the Torah for an Aliyah.

We Orthodox Jews desperately need gay rabbis

An argument for ordaining gay rabbis, by Rabbi Daniel Landes, Rabbi Atwood's Masmikh (ordainer) and Rebbe (mentor).