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e-TiM: Orthodox Conversion to Judaism in American Responsa Literature (Part 6)

Rabbi Adam Mintz

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e-TiM: Orthodox Conversion to Judaism in American Responsa Literature (Part 5)

Rabbi Adam Mintz

This week's topic: Conversion of Children in America
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Adventures in American Judaism (Part 8)

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

This week's topic: Agunot and American Jewish Policy Making The "chained wife" and "recalcitrant husband" is perhaps the most discussed and thorniest matter of Halakah in the American Jewish public square. The decades-long work to "solve" the issue…
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Adventures in American Judaism (Part 7)

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

This week's topic: Basketball Politics, Yarmulke Wars, and the Dynamics of Halakhic Change  In the early-1980s, two Jewish day schools in Chicago took a high school basketball league to court for the right to play basketball while adorning…
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Orthodox Conversion to Judaism in American Responsa Literature (Part 1)

Rabbi Adam Mintz

This week's topic: Orthodox Conversion in New Orleans, 1864
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Orthodox Conversion to Judaism in American Responsa Literature (Part 4)

Rabbi Adam Mintz

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Orthodox Conversion to Judaism in American Responsa Literature (Part 3)

Rabbi Adam Mintz

This week's topic: Rabbi Moshe Feinstein on Conversion to Judaism 
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Orthodox Conversion to Judaism in American Responsa Literature (Part 2)

Rabbi Adam Mintz

This week's topic: Intermarriage and Conversion in America in the Early Twentieth Century
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The Langer Affair (Part 9)

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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The Langer Affair (Part 10)

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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