Letters to the Editor

HISTORY OF HALAKHAH

Halakhic Archaeology and Mesorah: An Exploration of the Possibility of Archaeology Solving Halakhic Disputes

Appendix

Stewart Rubin

New Light on the History of Hanukah and Its Commemoration: A Literary Analysis of Bavli Shabbat 21a–24a

Richard Hidary

Building the Third Temple: A Historical Exploration of Three Attempts to Build the Third Temple in the First Millennium after the Destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE

F. M. Loewenberg

JEWISH LAW

Artificial Feeding in Terminally Ill Patients

Hershel Schachter

If Ḥaredim Must Serve in the IDF, Should Young Jewish Men in the Diaspora Also Be Required?

Ari (Chwat) Shvat

May a Woman Recite the Birkat Erusin?

              Aryeh A. Frimer

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

Tuvy Miller

The Simchah and Oneg of Yom Tov

Asher Benzion Buchman

JEWISH THOUGHT

To Become an Emotional Person: The Role of Emotion in the Pre-Holocaust Ḥasidism of R. Kalonymus Kalmish Shapira of Piaseczna

Zvi Leshem

Camus, Rebbe Nachman, and the Absurdity of Wholeness

              Yaakov Klein

The Universalism of Rabbi Ovadiah Sforno

              Micah Segelman

TANAKH

Exegesis, Theology, and Exile: The Commentary on Psalms of Moses Israel de Mercado

Yitzhak Berger

Is There a Connection between Fear and Hair Standing Up? Understanding Rashi to Deut. 32:17

Mitchell First

MINHAG

Kabbalat Shabbat: An Explanation of Its Structure

Shaul LentHeshey Zelcer

COMMUNITY

One Year Sober: My Lonely and Painful Journey from Alcoholism to Tentative Recovery

Anonymous

HEBREW ARTICLES

הוֹרָתָם ולידתם של דינה ויוסף: הורות גנטית והורות הלכתית

על פי שלושה תחומי דעת – אגדה, הלכה ופרשנות המקרא

 יוסי גרין וגדעון סטטמן

בדין סנהדרין בקידוש החודש

אברהם משה סלמון

מהותה של מצוות פדיון שבויים

בניה מינצר