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  Volume 7

  Winter 2009

   ISBN: 0-9765665-6-7

 

 

 

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
   
  Letters
 
Gerut
   
  On the Psak Concerning Israeli Conversions
  Yehuda Henkin
   
 

Conversion to Judaism: Halakha, Hashkafa, and Historic Challenge

  Marc D. Angel
   
 JEWISH THOUGHT
   
 

Hasidism and the Rebbe/Tzaddik:The Power and Peril of Charismatic Leadership

  Elijah Judah Schochet
   
  Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch’s View of Secular Studies in the Thought of Rabbi Joseph Elias: Some Critical Observations
  Baruch Pelta
   
  Was Rashi a Corporealist?
  Natan Slifkin
   
 TALMUD TORAH
   
 

A Hagiographer’s Review of “Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters”

  Asher Benzion Buchman
   
 JEWISH LAW
   
  A Statistical Analysis of Iggeros Moshe, Orach Chaim 1:35
  Sheldon Epstein and David Greenberger
   
 

“It is upon him to bring the proof”: A Note on Historiography, Printing, and the Power of Hearsay in a Position of Rabad

  Yaakov Jaffe and David Shabtai
   
  Wrapping Ourselves Blindly
  Shimi Berger and Shloimy Zelcer
   
CUSTOM
   
 

The Order of Lighting the Hanukkah Candles: The Evolution of a Custom and the Influence of the Publication of the Shulhan Arukh

  J. Jean Ajdler
   
 

Backward and Forward: An Unusual Feature of Kiddush Levanah

  David S Farkas
   
  ‘Shalom Aleichem’ to Three People During Kiddush Levanah
  Zvi Ron
   
הלכה
   
  הלכות ברכת הגומל
  שמואל פנחסי
   
  גדרו של בית דין לענין גרות
  אליעזר בן פורת