Letters to the Editor

JEWISH THOUGHT

Personal Perspectives on Emunah

David H. Schwartz, Introduction

Hershel Schachter

Mordechai Willig 

Benjamin Yudin

Michael Rosensweig

Mosheh Lichtenstein

The Fine-Tuning Argument for God’s Existence

Elie Feder and Aaron Zimmer

Shedding Light: R. Meir Simḥah ha-Kohen’s Approach to Ta‘amei ha-Mitzvot in Meshekh Ḥokhmah

Jonah Steinmetz

Maimonides Misunderstood: Did Maimonides Champion the Golden Mean Over Torah Truths?

Moshe Maimon

Forgiving a Terrorist

Gil Student

Torah im Derekh Eretz and Torah U-Madda: Roads that Diverge or Converge?

Yocheved Friedman

RAV JOSEPH B. SOLOVEITCHIK, ZT”L

Review Essay: Soloveitchik’s Children

Steven Gotlib

Yosl Rakover Speaks to the Rav: How Zvi Kolitz’ Novel Prefigures His Confrontation with J. B. Soloveitchik

Jonathan L. Milevsky

HISTORY

Aaron Berechiah ben Moses of Modena:An Eminent Sixteenth–Seventeenth Century Italian Sage

              Marvin J. Heller

HISTORY OF HALAKHAH

The Gilyonot of R. Eliezer of Tukh

Aryeh Leibowitz

Philological Insights on Tekheleth

Ephraim S. Ayil

Atḥalta De-Geulah as Envisioned by Ḥiddushei HaRim

Heshey Zelcer

28 Iyar, Yom Yerushalayim, in Tanakh

Natan Kopeika

Jonathan ben Joseph of Ruzhiny’s Temple Plan in the Printed Talmud

Joshua Skarf

TORAH AND MEDICINE

Stem Cell Technology and In Vitro Fertilization: A Possible Halakhic Solution for Avoiding Mamzerut

Salomon Amar and John D. Loike

Jewish Medical History in Rabbi Barukh Halevi Epstein’s Mekor Barukh: When the Doctors Became Rabbis, the Jewish People Were Healthy

              Edward Reichman

JEWISH LAW

The Nature of Ownership in Jewish Law

Yosef Roth

The Taz HaYadua: Limitations Within Rabbinic Jurisprudence

Moshe Rothman

Rambam on Fathers Teaching Their Children to Swim: Synthesis and Commentary in Rambam’s Works

Shaul Lent

Women, Tefillah, and Tefillah be-Ẓibbur: Part I

Tuvy Miller

A Pesach Guide for Those with Food Allergies and Sensitivities

Shmuel Lesher

The Agunah of the Titanic

Dovid Gernetz

MINHAG

The Custom Not to Recite the Blessing for the New Month for Tishrei

Zvi Ron

HEBREW ARTICLES

הלל דרבנן

אשר בן-ציון בוכמן

בידיים טובות

אבי קדיש