Volume 28

 

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Letters to the Editor

We Listen to the Coronavirus Experts

JEWISH THOUGHT

Amalek from Generation to Generation
Asher Ben
zion Buchman

An “Even Better” Judaism? Progressivism and Orthodox Judaism
Steven Kessler

HISTORY OF HALAKHAH

Siddur Avodat HaLev: A New Siddur and Insights on the Old
Aton Holzer and Arie Folger

“David Melech Yisrael Chai VeKayam”: Kiddush HaLevanah, Midrash, Archeology and Redemption
Nachman Levine

A Positive Light on the Nations: R. Moshe Isserles’ Revisionistic Views on Christianity
Asher Turin

The Code of Esther: A Counter-Investigation
Emmanuel Bloch

HALAKHAH   

Loving the Convert Prior to a Completed Conversion: With a Test Case Application of Inviting Conversion Candidates to Pesach Seder and Yom Tov Meals
Michael J. Broyde and Benjamin J. Samuels

TALMUD TORAH

Idle Chatter or Vital Chat? A Janus-Faced Talmudic Dictum
David Nimmer

The Original Understanding of Sea Sponges in mShabbat 21:3
Steven H. Adams

On the Meaning of the Word Ḥem’ah in Biblical Hebrew
Yisroel Asher Coleman

TORAH AND MEDICINE

BRCA Testing for All Ashkenazi Women: A Halakhic Inquiry
Sharon Galper Grossman

HISTORY

Outlawed Visitors on al-Haram al-Sharif: Jews on the Temple Mount during the Ottoman and British rule of Jerusalem, 1517–1967
F. M. Loewenberg

MINHAG

Tehillat Hashem and Other Verses Before Birkat Ha-Mazon
Zvi Ron

 

סרבנות גט: המצב באירופה בכלל ובצרפת בפרט הצעה לקיצור זמן העיגון של מסורבות גט
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