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Adventures in American Judaism (Part 5): The Great Nineteenth Century Purim Ball Revival

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

In the 1860s, a group of young Jews helped bring about a Jewish religious revival, first in New York, and then across North America, through a little known and little appreciated Jewish holiday: Purim.
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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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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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Beyond the Text, Into Their World (Part 4)

Shulie Mishkin

This week's topic: Others: Christians, Sects, Samaritans, Romans
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Death and Beyond: Burial, Cemeteries, Demons, Medicine, Crucifixion

Shulie Mishkin

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Adventures in American Judaism (Part 3): Herman Wouk's God

Rabbi Dr. Zev Eleff

First published in 1959, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Herman Wouk's This is My God caused a sensation among Jews and non-Jews. It also called into question who was the most fitting person to represent the Jewish faith in the post-World…
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