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    Items with the tag:

    halacha

    Cover of American Jewish Thought Since 1934: Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief
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    Amer­i­can Jew­ish Thought Since 1934: Writ­ings on Iden­ti­ty, Engage­ment, and Belief
    Edited by Michael Marmur and David Ellenson 

    ‘Sacred Sto­ries as Metaphor’: A Mod­ern Retelling of Bib­li­cal Stories

    Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg
    August 19, 2019
    Cover of The Legend of Safed: Life and Fantasy in the City of Kabbalah
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    The Leg­end of Safed: Life and Fan­ta­sy in the City of Kabbalah
     Eli Yassif, Haim Watzman (trans.)
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    Meet Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award Win­ner Leon Wiener Dow

    JBC Staff
    March 4, 2019
    Cover of Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law
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    Halakhah: The Rab­binic Idea of Law
    Chaim N. Saiman
    Cover of Headlines: Halachic Debates of Current Events
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    Head­lines: Halachic Debates of Cur­rent Events
    Dovid Lichtenstein
    Cover of A Guide to the Complex: Contemporary Halakhic Debates
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    A Guide to the Com­plex: Con­tem­po­rary Halakhic Debates
    Shlomo M. Brody
    Cover of Living the Halachic Process: Questions and Answers for the Modern Jew
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    Liv­ing the Halachic Process: Ques­tions and Answers for the Mod­ern Jew
    Daniel Mann, ed.
    Cover of Maimonidean Studies: Volume 5
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    Mai­monidean Stud­ies: Vol­ume 5
    Arthur Hyman, ed.
    Cover of Women and Men in Communal Prayer: Halakhic Perspectives
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    Women and Men in Com­mu­nal Prayer: Halakhic Perspectives
    Rabbi Daniel Sperber, et al.
    Cover of Halakhic Man, Authentic Jew
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    Halakhic Man, Authen­tic Jew
    Ira Bedzow
    Cover of Halakhah in the Making: The Development of Jewish Law from Qumran to the Rabbis
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    Halakhah in the Mak­ing: The Devel­op­ment of Jew­ish Law from Qum­ran to the Rabbis
    Aharon Shemesh

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