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Monday, July 20, 2009

 
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):

Click here to read moreFORUM
  • 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



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