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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
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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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