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  Spring 2017

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Letters to the Editor

JEWISH THOUGHT
A Populism of the Spirit, Shimon Cowen
Review Essay: Rabbi Soloveitchik’s Lectures on the Guide, Heshey Zelcer
“I am in the Middle”: Rav Aharon Lichtenstein’s Vision of Centrist Orthodoxy, Alan Jotkowitz

HISTORY OF HALAKHAH
Rav Mordechai Breuer’s: “Doubts” That Aren’t, Btzalel Shandelman
The Scientific Revolution and Modern Bedikat Tola’im Trends, Steven Adams
Did a Piyut Change the Halachah? The Curious Question of Circumcision on Rosh Hashanah, Yaakov Jaffe

JEWISH LAW
Women’s Aliyyot: le-Khatteḥila, be-di-Avad and bi-She’at ha-Deḥak, Aryeh A. Frimer
Thieves and Robbers: The Ganav and Gazlan in Jewish Law, Asher Benzion Buchman

TALMUD TORAH
Malmad HaTalmidim: A Suppressed Medieval Provencal Groundbreaker, David Guttmann
The Religious Phenomenology of Maimonides, Bezalel Naor
You Can’t Hurry Love, Yisrael Isser Zvi Herczeg
The Pool of Shlomo HaMelech and the Value of π, Morris Engelson

HISTORY
Austritt—A Tale of Two Cities, Yisrael Kashkin

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