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‘There is no concern of prohibition against their trade’: A responsum by Rashbatz on the trade in monkeys practiced by Algerian Jews in the middle ages

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018
The current study deals with the responsum of R. Shimon ben Zemah Duran (Rashbatz, Algeria, 15th century), a Jewish halakhic adjudicator, on the trade in monkeys practiced by Algerian Jews in the middle ages.
Abraham O. Shemesh
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Peripheral traditionalism: Judeoislamic self‐help in Marseille's northern districts Traditionalisme périphérique : entraide judéo‐musulmane dans les quartiers nord de Marseille

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1041-1059, December 2025.
Through the synagogue‐cum‐community space of St‐X in Marseille's infamous peripheral northern districts, local urban‐invested intercommunal communication and solidarity are generated via self‐help initiatives that particularize humanitarianism. Because of their traditionalist Jewish and Muslim religious anchorings and the stranglehold of laïcité over ...
Samuel Sami Everett
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Livmor eller egg?

DIN
Chabad Lubavitch er en ultraortodoks jødisk gruppe som er svært positiv til assistert reproduksjon. De oppfordrer ufrivillig barnløse jødiske ektepar til å bruke teknologien, gitt at de følger det religiøse lovverket (halakha).
Sofie Rose Strømme
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“He Who Enters the Bath-House Utters Two Blessings”: On the Evolvement and Decline of an Ancient Jewish Prayer

Religions, 2017
One of the improvements introduced by the Romans was the public bath-house. This article discusses the formation of Jewish prayers, which were composed during the early rabbinic period, following the dangers of the public baths. Sages from late antiquity
Abraham Ofir Shemesh
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Macrolevel factors encouraging bureaucratic policy entrepreneurship: The case of religion and state in Israel

European Policy Analysis, Volume 10, Issue 2, Page 253-278, Spring 2024.
Abstract How do external macrolevel factors encourage bureaucrats to become policy entrepreneurs? And what are their organizational goals in pursuing entrepreneurship? Contrary to traditional public choice literature on bureaucracy that sees the latter as change‐resistant, this study stresses that bureaucracies can and do change; they are not as ...
Niva Golan‐Nadir
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Challenges of Pluralistic Societies with Dissimilar Cultural Identities and Religious Legal Traditions: ADR and the Role of Religious Mediation and Arbitration

Stato, Chiese e Pluralismo Confessionale, 2017
Summary: 1. The Challenges of Pluralistic Societies with Dissimilar Cultural Identities and Religious Traditions: from a Melting Pot to a Cultural Mosaic - 2. European Catholic Tradition of Dual Legislation and Jurisdiction: 2.1.
Gloria M. Morán García
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Purity and Kashrut

, 2019
CrossCurrents, Volume 69, Issue 3, Page 264-276, September 2019.
Deborah Williger
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The Gift of Critical Engagement: Responses to my Commentators

Religious Studies Review, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 454-465, June 2026.
Sherman A. Jackson
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Between Philosophy, Religion, and Academic Research—A Response to the Review of My Book Called for a Resurrection of Religious Philosophy by Four Prominent Scholars

Religious Studies Review, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 89-96, March 2026.
Shalom Sadik
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Hermeneutic Strategy of Rabbinic Literature

Religions
This work is devoted to the development of dialogical hermeneutics. As a special field of research, hermeneutics was formed as a result of the efforts of Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer.
Ilya Dvorkin
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