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Will the Real Shas Kattan Please Stand Up

Will the Real Shas Kattan Please Stand Up Shmuel Lubin Shmuel Lubin is a doctoral candidate in biology and creator of “The Rishonim” podcast. There is an old tradition commonly referenced in the...

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Review of Ha-Sefer ha-Kollel (Kitāb al-Ḥāwī) by Rabbi David ben Saʿadya al-Ger

Review of Ha-Sefer ha-Kollel (Kitāb al-Ḥāwī) by Rabbi David ben Saʿadya al-Ger Marc Herman Marc Herman is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities and a core member of the Centre for...

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Parchments Burning, Letters Soaring, and Books Lost and Found: S.Y. Agnon’s...

Parchments Burning, Letters Soaring, and Books Lost and Found: S.Y. Agnon’s Library Fire 100 Years Later Jeffrey Saks Rabbi Jeffrey Saks, Director of ATID and its WebYeshiva.org program, is Director of...

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Elul Sale Announcement: Twelve Seforim recommendations

Elul Sale Announcement: Twelve Seforim recommendations By Eliezer Brodt In this post I would like to highlight and briefly describe a select list of seforim, some of which are brand new and others are...

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Neturei Karta; ArtScroll, Arius, and Orangutans; Suicide and the Law of Rodef

 Neturei Karta; ArtScroll, Arius, and Orangutans; Suicide and the Law of Rodef Marc B. Shapiro 1. We have recently seen behavior by so-called religious Jews that is vile. I refer to the actions of...

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Review of Jay R. Berkovitz’s The Pinkas of Metz

Review of Jay R. Berkovitz’s The Pinkas of Metz By Eliezer Brodt & Dan Rabinowitz Jay R. Berkovitz, Protocols of Justice: The Pinkas of Metz Rabbinic Court 1771-1789, (2 vol., 222 pp. +1084 pp.),...

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Yaakov Mark and Two Episodes from Vilna’s Great Synagogue Related to Yom Kippur

Yaakov Mark and Two Episodes from Vilna’s Great Synagogue Related to Yom Kippur David Livni was born in Vilna in 1870. He was educated in traditional Orthodox schools and joined the proto-Zionist...

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The Anatomy of a Mystery: Kohanim, Dissection, and Medical Training...

The Anatomy of a Mystery: Kohanim, Dissection, and Medical Training Throughout History Rabbi Edward Reichman, MD In September of 2024, I accidentally opened the portal to a priestly mystery. While...

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The Origin and Evolution of a “Rashi Yashan”- In Praise of Artscroll Rashi...

The Origin and Evolution of a “Rashi Yashan”- In Praise of Artscroll Rashi Breishit 12:2 – “ואעשך לגוי גדול” Eli Genauer The term “רש״י ישן” in printed editions often appears after a comment recorded...

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Disputatious Divorces: Public Controversies over Gitten and Couple Relations

Disputatious Divorces: Public Controversies over Gitten and Couple Relations by Marvin J. Heller[1] God said “It is not good that man be alone: I will make him a helper, a counterpart to him....

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