New Periodical: Hakirah VIII

I don't have a copy of this yet (it ships next week), but a table of contents and some excerpts are already available online (link):

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Response to "A Hagiographer's Review" by Marc B. Shapiro

Reply by Asher Benzion Buchman

Response to "Conversion to Judaism" by Eliezer Ben Porat

Reply by Marc D. Angel

Entering a Sanctuary for Hatzalat Yisrael: An Exchange by Michael J. Broyde and Kenneth Auman

HISTORY OF HALAKHAH

Rabbi Banet's Charming Snake by David Nimmer

R' Shlomo Yehuda Rapoport (Shir) by Chaim Landerer

TALMUD TORAH

Modern Scholarship and Yirat Shamayim by Heshey Zelcer

Who Was Re'uel? Finding a New Solution to an Age-Old Puzzle by Yacov Balsam

JEWISH LAW

Tradition! Tradition? Rambam and the Mesorah by Asher Benzion Buchman

The Beginning of the Jewish Calendar by Bernard Dickman

JEWISH THOUGHT

"Faith and Heresy" and "Principles of Philosophy" by Meir Zelcer

חינוך

מקומו של "משנה תורה" במערכת החינוכית של ספרד והמזרח התיכון by יוסף פאור

הלכה

בדין טבילה ביום במקום אונס by אליעזר בן פורת