Rabbi Shlomo Machpud

Without the father present:

Baby circumcised in the back seat minutes before sundown

With the mother and newborn stuck in traffic and the father held up by the police, a rabbi is forced to improvise.

Kashrut agency will not slaughter controversial chicken

Rabbi Shlomo Machpud, who heads the Yoreh Deah kashrut agency, says that he will not affix his Kashrut seal to braekel chicken.