Modern History

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16 | Rabbinic Letters

Dr. Marc Shapiro

Welcome to a Jewish History Uncensored with Dr. Marc Shapiro. This season we are covering the story of Dr. Shapiro’s most recent book.–a collection of letters from some of the great Rabbinic figures of our day. The correspondences between Dr.…
Podcast

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

Rabbi Adam Mintz

This week's topic: Should a Male Beit Din be Allowed to Watch Women Immerse?  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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58. Scholem's Postmortem | Dr. Noam Zadoff (Shabbetai Tzevi #5)

J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Noam Zadoff methodically demistify Gershom Scholem's iconoclastic but influential views about Sabbateanism and its causal connection to just about every contemporary element of Jewish life. 
Podcast

15 | Rabbinic Letters

Dr. Marc Shapiro

Welcome to a Jewish History Uncensored with Dr. Marc Shapiro. This season we are covering the story of Dr. Shapiro’s most recent book.–a collection of letters from some of the great Rabbinic figures of our day. The correspondences between Dr.…
Podcast

57. Frank and Francis | Dr. Pawel Maciejko (Shabbetai Tzevi #4)

J.J. Kimche

J.J. and Dr. Pawel Maciejko conspire to bring you an episode about a small but mighty sub-sect of Sabbateanism.
Podcast

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 10)

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

This week's topic: Mitzvah Merchants and the Creation of a Jewish Children's Culture From Brachos Bees, to Gedolim Cards, the Yeshiva World has borrowed from a uniquely American-style of education to support its own children's religious growth and…
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Adventures in American Judaism (Part 9)

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

This week's topic: Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and the Unorthodox Optics of Women's Talmud Study In 1977, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik delivered the inaugural Talmud shiur at Stern College for Women. His work before and after to spearhead a…
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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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