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Before Virtue: Halakhah, Dharmasastra, and What Law Can Create [PDF]

, 2008
Davis, referring to the traditional Jewish and Hindu legal texts, addresses on what law creates or produces. He focuses on both Jewish and Hindu jurisprudence claim that law can create--a human, not a biological homo sapiens, but rather the full ideal of
Davis, Donald R., Jr.
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Ritual as Mnemonic: Weaving Jewish Law with Symbolic Networks in Likkutei Halakhot by R. Nathan Sternhartz

Religions
Ritual has long served as a central axis of religious life, not only structuring practice but also transmitting meaning across generations. This article offers a new perspective on how Hasidic thought reconfigures the medieval Jewish genre of ta‘amei ha ...
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
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Menorah Review (No. 48, Winter, 2000) [PDF]

, 2000
The Problem of Pain -- Science and Religion: The Case of Judaism -- Shylock the Liberal -- The Poet of Delight Beyond Suffering -- The Feminist\u27s Corner -- American Jews: A Body Politic -- From Woodstock Shall Go Forth the Law -- Noteworthy ...

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Untranslating Maḥloqet: Halakhic Pluralism and Halakhic Censure

Religions
This article offers a conceptual and historical analysis of the rabbinic term maḥloqet, arguing that it functions not merely as a descriptor of disagreement but as a culturally embedded legal category with shifting meanings and purposes across rabbinic ...
Noam Hoffmann
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Menorah Review (No. 35, Fall, 1995) [PDF]

, 1995
Jewish Path, Buddhist Path: Do They Meet? -- Sparks of Light -- Jewish-Americans and American Sports: Memory, Identity and Assimilation -- How to Develop the Moral Personality -- Political and the Nationalist Judaism -- Litigation -- Book ...

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Responses to comments and elaborations of previous posts III [PDF]

, 2008
This post is dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Chaim Flom, late rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Ohr David in Jerusalem. I first met Rabbi Flom thirty years ago when he became my teacher at the Hebrew Youth Academy of Essex County (now known as the Joseph Kushner
Shapiro, Marc B.
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“At ‘Amen Meals’ It’s Me and God” Religion and Gender: A New Jewish Women’s Ritual [PDF]

, 2015
New ritual practices performed by Jewish women can serve as test cases for an examination of the phenomenon of the creation of religious rituals by women.
Abraham Kesler, Alan Beardsworth, Aliza Lavie, Anselm Strauss, Anselm Strauss, Barbara Harriss-White, Candace West, Carole M Counihan, Caroline W Bynum, Catherine M Bell, David Morgan, Donald Weinstein, Ellen M Umansky, Emile Durkheim, Erving Goffman, Esther Stern, Faegheh Shirazi, Gideon Aran, Jeannette L Mobley-Tanaka, Jennifer Breger, Judith Butler, Judith Plaskow, Judith Plaskow, Lea Targin-Zeller, Lila Abu-Lughod, Lori Lefkovitz, Marcel Mauss, Mary Daly, Mary Douglas, Mary F Bednarowski, Maurie Sacks, Naama Azulay, Nissim Leon, Orit Avishai, Pat Caplan, Patricia Curran, Penina V Adelman, Pierre Bourdieu, Rachel Adler, Randall Collins, Richard Schechner, Richard Tapper, Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, Rodney Stark, Rodney Stark, Rosemary A Joyce, Roy C Wood, Ruth M Griffith, Saba Mahmood, Sami Aida Kanafani, Sascha L Goluboff, Shulamit Reinharz, Sima Zalcberg-Block, Sorour Soroudi, Stephen J Mennell, Susan Starr Sered, Susan Starr Sered, Susan Starr Sered, Susan Starr Sered, Susan Starr Sered, Susan Starr Sered, Sylvia Rothschild, Tamar Ansh, Tamar El-Or, Tamar Ross, Thomas J Scheff, Tova Ganzel, Victor Turner, Victor Turner, Yoram Bilu, Yoram Bilu   +70 more
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Górecki, Henryk Mikołaj [PDF]

, 2015
Autor w haśle w "Encyklopedii Biblii i jej recepcji" opisuje biografię i twórczość Henryka Mikołaja Góreckiego (Czernica 1933- Katowice 2010), kompozytora polskiego.
Tytko, Marek Mariusz
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A Jewish Theological Perspective on Technology (Orthodox)

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
This encyclopaedia entry explores the Jewish theological perspective on technology, highlighting its fundamental role in improving the human condition and completing creation.
Mois Navon
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Menorah Review (No. 45, Winter, 1999) [PDF]

, 1999
The Timeless Value of Heschel -- Religion and Politics -- Picks and Pans from the Feminist\u27s Corner -- What We Are, What We Have, What We Are Able To Do -- Mendelssohn, Reason and Religion -- Mordecai Kaplan and American Jewish Orthodoxy -- Noteworthy

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