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Parnas L’Doro: His Scholarly Correspondence and Parnas L’Dorot: His Scholarly Contribution

Parnas L’Doro contains Prins’ correspondence with the great scholars of his day; Parnas L’Dorot contains his notes and comments on…

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Outside/Inside: A Fresh Look at Tzniut

So what’s new in this slender volume, or, if we’re to take the subtitle’s word for it, what is this…

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There Once Was a World: A 900 Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok

There Once Was a World has been 19 years in preparation. A book of over 800 pages, it was lovingly…

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Kaddish

Without question, no prayer in the whole of Jewish liturgy is as famous, and paradoxically, as unknown as the kaddish.…

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Choosing a College: A Guide for Observant Students

Like most of my friends, I remember my senior year of high school as both an exciting and a stressful…

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The Laws of Niddah, Volume One

The unforgettable Ponevezher Rav, Rabbi Yosef Kahanneman, z”l, once remarked that the frigid mikveh waters of Europe in which the…

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Confronting the Loss of a Baby: A Personal and Jewish Perspective

Paradoxically, the impetus for personal change and growth may sometimes arise out of life experiences beyond our control. Many who…

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Not By Chance! The Fall of Neo-Darwinian Theory

Dr. Lee M. Spetner holds a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has had a successful…

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Genesis: The Beginning of Desire

The publication of Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg's Genesis: The Beginning of Desire was greeted by almost universal acclaim. Readers and reviewers,…

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Will the Future of American Jewry be Secured by Secularism or by Faith?

Over the past 50 years, much of the American Jewish establishment has defined Jewish survival in fairly simple terms: fighting…

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Rashi: Annotated, Translated (and sometimes tangled)

Rashi's commentary on the Torah is the Mona Lisa of Torah exegesis. Is that an irreverent comparison? I don't think…

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