Rabbi Avraham Moshe Halpern, Rabbi of Ramot’s Chassidic community, Av Bais Din Badatz Ungvar and runs the Torah and Technology Research Center together with his esteemed father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Halpern. Rabbi Avraham Moshe Halpern presented a series of halachic lectures at the annual conference in Pomezia, Italy.

His detailed classes dealt with modern technology in the kitchen, home, buildings and public areas. The classes raised important issues and were very popular, especially the topics concerning the upcoming Pesach Holiday. The discussed issues were Koshering the microwave, ceramic stovetops, Halogen, and more. Rabbi Avraham Moshe gave a special spotlight to the topic of cleaning ovens. There is a common mistake that many people make by thinking that the regular self-cleaning ovens get to the proper heat of Libun Chamur. He warned that most self-cleaning ovens do not reach the heat limit of 500 degrees, required for Pesach use. In addition, the question is if the required heat gets to every corner in the oven. Besides all these, he mentioned several other required details for Libun Chamur. As a result of all these technical difficulties, it is not adequate to use the self-cleaning ovens for Pesach unless stringently approved by a Rabbi.

The Torah and Technology Research Center was established in 1965 with a consistent goal: striving to discover solutions to challenges that arise as a result of Modern technology that causes difficult Halachic problems in all sorts of areas in life.

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Halpern is the Director of the Research Center that is considered the top authority amongst leading Rabbis in these areas. The Center has kept a close relationship with the biggest Poskim of this generation and the past, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, OBM, Rabbi Yakov Yisrael Weiss OBM, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv OBM Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef OBM Rabbi Shmuel Wosner OBM and especially with Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Orbach OBM who assisted the Research till his last days.

The staff at the Research Center consists of highly esteemed Rabbis whom are massive Talmidai Chachamim and Poskim side by side with top of the field Engineers, and scientists, whether its development, research, consultants, for public or private, they all combine their skills to provide the most updated technological solutions .

The activities in the Research Center cover vast areas, from the latest gadget in the kitchen to launching rockets and satellites, and submarine radars. The results can be seen in hospitals, nursing homes, hotels, hostels, Amy units, Police, Security services, Jewish organizations, public institutions, all over the world.

The Research Center was founded many years ago and turned into the main source in producing solutions for Rabbis, worldwide Jewish communities, from any type or any place .Questions arrive at the Research center by writing mail, email, fax, telephone, hundreds of questions a week in all possible areas that need assistance in finding an answer to the question.

Hundreds of Rabbis from all over the world keep constant connection with the Center in all areas that might have issues to solve as the head of it all is Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Halpern.