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  Volume 16

  Winter 2013

   ISBN: 193680305-4

 

 

 

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9

Letters to the Editor

Jewish Thought

19

Kedushah, Shema, and the Difference Between Israel and the Angels

N. Daniel Korobkin

 

 

47

The Soul of a Jew and the Soul of a Non-Jew

Hanan Balk

 

 

Talmud Torah

77

Review Essay: “Jeremiah: The Fate of a Prophet”
Heshey Zelcer

 

 

91

Rabbi Ishmael, Meet Jaimini: The Thirteen Middot of Interpretation in Light of Comparative Law

Daniel A. Klein

 

 

Medicine and Halakhah

113

Gestational Surrogacy

John D. Loike and Moshe D. Tendler

 

 

133

Criminalization of HIV Transmission

Shalom C. Spira and Mark A. Wainberg

 

 

145

Obstetrics and the Curse of Eve

Martin I. Lockshin and Seth Winberg

 

 

History of Halakhah

153

Review Essay: Between The Genius and the Gaon―Lost in Translation

Eliyahu Krakowski

 

 

177

Diagrams in Rashi’s Commentary: A Case Study of Eruvin 56b

Eli Genauer

History

193

What Motivated Antiochus to Issue his Decrees Against the Jews?

Mitchell First

 

 

213

Where Jerusalem Jews Worship: Tracing the changing location of the “holiest” site in Judaism
F. M. Loewenberg

Halakhah

233

The Movement of the Chanukah Menorah Indoors: An Historical and Halachic Analysis

Moshe Walter

 

 

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