Rav Chesed

Here is the table of contents for the new two-volume festschrift for R. Haskel Lookstein, Rav Chesed: Essays in Honor of Rabbi Dr. Haskel Lookstein:
VOLUME 1

• Editor's Note - Rafael Medoff
• Introduction - Eli Wiesel
• Foreword - Natan Sharansky
• Citation - Richard M. Joel
• There Never Again Rose a Prophet Like Moses: Except Perhaps Ezekiel? - Hayyim Angel
• זרמים ביהדות ואיחודם - הרב שלמה אבינר
• Abraham: Pioneer Religious Educator, Paradigm for Contemporary Teachers of Judaism - Yaakov Bieler
• "The Hair of a Woman is Erotic:" An Explanation of the Contemporary Practice of Many Married Orthodox Women Not to Cover their Hair - Michael J. Broyde

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• I Do? Consent And Coercion in Sexual Relations - Mark Dratch
• Tradition at the Cusp of Modernity: A Sermon by Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz - Adam S. Ferziger
• For This Very Time: Parshat Zachor and Purim for Orthodox and Nono-Orthodox Jews in 21st-Century America - Sylvia Barack Fishman
• The Gardener of East of Eden - David C. Flatto
• Bringing the "Russians" Back In: The Ambiguities of Rejoining the Jewish World - Zvi Gitelman
• Helping Students Find Their Own Voice in Tefilla: A Conceptual Framework for Teachers - Jay Goldmintz
• American Orthodoxy in the 1950s: The Lean Years - Lawrence Grossman
• Devotees and Deviants: A Primer on the Religious Values of Orthodox Day School Families - Jeffrey S. Gurock
• Father and Sons: The French Rothschilds and the Yishuv - Jonathan Helfand
• From the Rav's Pen: Selected Letters of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik - Nathaniel Helfgot
• Gersonides on Immortality - Arthur Hyman
• The Political Consequences of Trivializing the Holocaust - Gilbert Kahn
• A King Like Nobody Else's: Parshat Ha-Melech as a Primer for Parents and Educators - Jeffrey Kobrin
• Educating the "New" Jewish Woman: Nation Building, Social Change, and Ethnicity in Vocational Schools for Jewish Women in Palestine, 1911-1914 - Rebecca Kobrin
• The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Talmud Torah: The Central Jewish Institute and Interwar American Jewish Identity - Jonathan Krasner
• Are Women "Lightheaded"? Three Troublesome Passages in Halakhic Literature - Norman Lamm
• ארבעה צריכין חזוק ואלו הן: תורה ומעשים טובים, תפילה ודרך ארץ - ד"ר בריינה יוכבד לוי

VOLUME 2

• Talmud and Ma'asseh in Pirkei Avot - Aharon Lichtenstein
• Standing Up Against Holocaust Deniers: A Memoir from David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt - Deborah Lipstadt
• Dayeinu - Haskel Lookstein
• Sephardi Traditionalism in Ceremonial Art and Visual Culture - Vivian B. Mann
• Meeting Again (and Again): Reading Pinkhos Curgin's Essay Seventy-Five Years Later - Peter N. Miller
• Is Coca-Cola Kosher? Rabbi Tobias Geffen and the History of American Orthodoxy - Adam Mintz
• Middle Eastern Antisemitism: Indigenous Affliction or Imported Plague? - Michael Oren
• Compulsion or Choice? The Jewish War and the Problem of "Necessity" according to Josephus - Jonathan J. Price
• A Man of Egypt Becomes A Man of God: Examining the Relationship Between Moses and Yitro - Sandra E. Rapoport
• Correcting the Ba'al Koreh: Punctilious Performance vs. Public Embarrassment - Moshe Rosenberg
• The Halakhah According to B'nai B'rith - Jonathan Sarna
• Tikkun Olam: Defining the Jewish Obligation - Jacob J. Schacter
• בגדר קדושת ישראל - הרב צבי שכטר
• To be German and Jewish: Hermann Cohen and Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch - Meir Soloveichik
• The Right of Others to Think Differently from Us - Joseph Telushkin
• Becoming Human: What's in a Name? - Shera Aranoff Tuchman
• קבע בתפילה הערות על מושג הקביעות בפרק ד' של מס' ברכות - הרלן ג'יי ווכסלר
• Nationa as Family: The Key to Redemption in Tanakh - Avraham Weiss
• Law and Narrative in the Book of Ruth - Avivah Zornberg
• On Sunday the Rabbi Stayed for Bensching - Joshua Lookstein
• Rav Chesed: The Life and Times of Rabbi Haskel Lookstein - Rafael Medoff (yes, the entire softcover biography)
• Contributors
• Jubille Volume Patrons