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Letters to the Editor

COMMUNITY

Historical Revisionism by the Families of Rav Kook’s Disciples: Three Case Studies
Eitam Henkin

Rav Hildesheimer’s Response to Ultra-Orthodoxy
Gil Student

Adversity and Authorship: As Revealed in the Introductions of Early Hebrew Books
Marvin J. Heller

A Tour of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine Through Jewish Eyes
Edward Reichman and Anna Dysert

JEWISH THOUGHT

Rav Soloveitchik’s New World View
David P. Goldman

Reinterpretation and Resistance to the Mitzvah of Tefillah
Asher Benzion Buchman

HISTORY OF HALAKHAH
The Gaon of Vilna, the Ḥatam Sofer, and the Ḥazon Ish: Minhag and the Crisis of Modernity
Benjamin Brown
OHR LA-GOYIM

Teaching Mussar at the FBI
Cary A. Friedman

Why is there no kosher meat or poultry that is certified humane?
Heshey Zelcer and Malky Zelcer

Stunning After Slaughter by Rabbi Daniel Asher Kleinman

JEWISH LAW
Pareve Cloned Beef Burgers: Health and Halakhic Considerations
John D. Loike, Ira Bedzow and Moshe D. Tendler
TALMUD TORAH

Apprehending the Divine Through the Religious Act: Rabbi Yaakov Anatoli’s Introduction to Malmad HaTalmidim
David Guttmann

In Search of Nimrod: Nimrod and Esau as Parallel Figures
Geula Twersky

MINHAG

“Our Salty Tears”: The History and Significance of an Interpretation of Dipping in Salt Water at the Seder
Zvi Ron


שונות

מצוות ביקור חולים: בין ביקור לחלופה (לביקור) ומה שביניהם
יוסי גרין

הקדמת רבי יעקב אנטולי לספר מלמד התלמידים
יעקב דוד גוטמן

מכתב מהרב אליעזר בלוך להסופר ש"י עגנון בדבר גלגולה של נשמה אחת בגרמניה
מלך שפירא