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  Volume 11

  Spring 2011

   ISBN: 193680300-3

 

 

 

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JEWISH LAW
   
   Women Rabbis?
   Hershel Schachter
   
 

 Orthodox Women Rabbis? Tentative Thoughts that Distinguish Between the Timely and the Timeless
   Michael J. Broyde and Shlomo M. Brody
   
 TALMUD TORAH
   
 

 Rava as Mara de-Atra in Mahoza
   Yaakov Elman
   
   Reconciling Divergent Estimates in Property Assessment Cases
   Sheldon Epstein, Bernard Dickman and Yonah Wilamowsky
   
   Completing Creation
   Asher Benzion Buchman
   
 THOUGHT
   
 

 The Mystical Spirituality of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
   Heshey Zelcer
   
   Chimeras and the Limits of Casuistry in Jewish Bioethics
   Alan Jotkowitz
   
HISTORY OF HALAKHAH
   
 

 Clarifying Why the Muscovy Duck is Kosher: A Factually Accurate Response
   Ari Z. Zivotofsky and Zohar Amar
   
   Methodologies Used by Poskim to Determine the Orientation of the Synagogue
   Aryeh Shore
   
   Aleinu: Obligation to Fix the World or the Text?
   Mitchell First
   
COMMUNITY
   
   A Proposal to Improve Rabbinic Decision-Making for Serious Medical Problems
   Brenda Breuer, Fred Rosner and Aaron E. Glatt
   
   Responses to “A Proposal to Improve Rabbinic Decision-Making for Serious Medical Problems”
   Shimon Glick and Alan Jotkowitz; Kenneth Prager;
  Gedalia Dov Schwartz; Aaron Twerski; and Binyomin Weiss
   
FORUM
 
   On Reading Rambam in Brooklyn and in Haifa
   Menachem Kellner
   
   A Response: Reading Rambam in Haifa and Studying Rambam in Brooklyn
   Asher Benzion Buchman
   
הלכה
   
  בענין מצות פדיון שבויים
  דוד ליכטנשטיין
   
 

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