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Letters to the Editor

Forum

23

Modern Orthodoxy and the Role of Science

Yitzchok Adlerstein, Bernard Fryshman, Baruch Brody, Nathan Aviezer and Asher Benzion Buchman

Medicine and Halakhah

41

Tampering with the Genetic Code of Life: Comparing Secular and Halakhic Ethical Concerns

John D. Loike and Moshe D. Tendler

59

Plonit v. Ploni: The Get from the Man in a Permanent Vegetative State

Michael J. Broyde

91

Is the Concept of Vital Motion a Halakhic Definition of Death?

Noam Stadlan

Talmud Torah

107

How are we to determine what God wants? Reason, Revelation, or Both

Netanel Wiederblank

147

What is the Origin of the Word מחילה?

Mitchell First

159

Chametz in Eighteen Minutes? An Inquiry into the Correct Text of the Talmud

Efraim Vaynman

Torah and Science

171

The Origin of Mankind―A Torah Perspective
Nathan Aviezer

181

Molad Zaqen and Islamic Scientific Innovation

Ari Storch

Jewish Thought

193

Training the Heart and the Mind

Aharon Hersh Fried

217

Rereading Rav Hirsch on Mitzvos and Gender
Yisrael Kashkin

History of Halakhah

235

Redacting Tosafot on the Talmud: Part I―Sources
Aryeh Leibowitz

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