Jewish History

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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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The Langer Affair (Part 8)

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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The Langer Affair (Part 7): Rav Goren's Halakhic Approach Explained II

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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The Langer Affair (Part 6): Rav Goren's Halakhic Approach Explained

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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The Langer Affair (Part 4) - Rabbi Langer's Battle to Create a Beit Din

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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The Langer Affair (Part 5): Response of the Rabbis to Rabbi Goren's Ruling

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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The Langer Affair (Part 3) - Rabbi Goren and the Chief Rabbinate

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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Adventures in American Judaism (Part 4): Sandy Koufax Revisited

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

In 1965, Sandy Koufax refused to pitch Game 1 of the World Series. But how this well-known episode is remembered in the American Jewish mind is different than how it played out sixty years ago.
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Orthodox Conversion to Judaism in American Responsa Literature: Class 1 Orthodox Conversion in New Orleans, 1864

Rabbi Adam Mintz

We will explore how American Orthodox rabbis of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have navigated the difficult but fascinating topic of conversion to Judaism in America.
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The Langer Affair (Part 2) - The Controversial Heter Explained

Dr. Marc Shapiro

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