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And then I heard the singing. Chanting, prayer, live voices, not from the transistor. It wasn’t yet light, just the first flutterings of dawn. Shivering with cold, wrapped in our blankets, wet with…
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A. B. Yehoshua
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1977
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[…] Must we conclude that Israeli society is doomed to experience a Kulturkampf, and that the Zionist synthesis is marching ineluctably toward its undoing? Before answering that question, let us…
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Aviezer Ravitzky
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1997
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Taking a leaf from the role of learning amongst many Modern/Centrist Zionist Orthodox Jews, adult Jewish study should become a permanent feature of the Jewish home everywhere, whereby adults are…
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Alvin I. Schiff
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1999
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Poor Blu Greenberg, has she let herself in for it. In seeking to effect a synthesis between Orthodoxy and feminism in On Women and Judaism, she has managed to anger partisans on both sides of the…
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David Singer
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New York, United States of America
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1983
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The decision of 15 February 1983 by the New York State Court of Appeals in the Case of Avitzur v. Avitzur has been hailed by religious and legal scholars alike. The decision recognized…
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Melvin Teitelbaum
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Los Angeles, United States of America
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1983
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The process that ultimately enabled women to serve as pleaders in the rabbinical courts began thanks to the initiative of one woman, Ruth Margarit Neiger of Raananah…
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Yoram Kirsch
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Jerusalem, Israel
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2002
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To the remnant whom Hashem calls Guardians of the Torah and Doers of His Word. May the Lord our God be with them and may they rise higher and higher
our brethren guardians of the faith of israel!
Ou…
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Agudas Yisroel
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1918
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Question:In America there is now a notable general rise in religion. The membership of religious organizations has grown, religious gatherings attract a larger audience, etc. Likewise in Jewish life…
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Joseph B. Soloveitchik
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New York, United States of America
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1954
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You ask me for my opinion on the question which at present agitates so greatly the minds of men, emancipation; whether I consider it feasible and desirable, according to the spirit of Judaism, our…
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Samson Raphael Hirsch
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Oldenburg, German Confederation
(Oldenburg, Germany)
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1836