Tradition meets technology with UK app for halachic questions – Those in need of advice on Jewish law can anonymously text a panel of rabbinic experts and receive an answer in hours with ShailaText, which just hit 10,000 users | Timesofisrael

When Rabbi Gershon Lopian, one of London’s foremost authorities on Jewish law, retired from his longstanding position leading the Yeshurun Federation Synagogue in the suburb of Edgware, he set up post next to his telephone waiting for questions to come in – which they did.
Available virtually around the clock, Lopian answered personal queries about halacha, or Jewish law, for local constituents in need of instruction on a variety of topics ranging from kosher dietary laws to fair business practice, the laws of Shabbat and holidays, family purity, and more.