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Conversion in Responsa Literature (Part 6): Should a Male Beit Din be Allowed to Watch Women Immerse?

Rabbi Adam Mintz

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Conversion in Responsa Literature (Part 6): Should a Male Beit Din be Allowed to Watch Women Immerse?

Rabbi Adam Mintz

Please note that this class is taking place at 11:00 AM Eastern time, 5:00 PM Israel time due to the time change
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Conversion in Responsa Literature (Part 5): Conversion of Children in America

Rabbi Adam Mintz

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Adventures in American Judaism (Part 7): Basketball Politics, Yarmulke Wars, and the Dynamics of Halakhic Change

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

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 kippot. The testimony and judgment suggests a lot about the American Jewish expectations of external…
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Adventures in American Judaism (Part 8): Agunot and American Jewish Policy Making

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

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 is an important history of religious self-reflection and…
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Conversion in Responsa Literature (Part 1): Orthodox Conversion in New Orleans, 1864

Rabbi Adam Mintz

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Conversion in Responsa Literature (Part 4): Denver Conversion Beit Din

Rabbi Adam Mintz

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Conversion in Responsa Literature (Part 2): Intermarriage and Conversion in America in the Early Twentieth Century

Rabbi Adam Mintz

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Conversion in Responsa Literature (Part 3): Rabbi Moshe Feinstein on Conversion to Judaism

Rabbi Adam Mintz

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The Langer Affair (Part 8)

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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