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    • Vol. VI: Issue 1 – Fall 2021/5782
      • COULD EVE HAVE BEEN FRAMED?
      • THE CRY FROM THE THORNBUSH: ON THE PAIN OF GOD’S BODY
      • ARGUMENTATION AND ITS LIMITS: A LESSON FROM THE STAM
      • “DEATH” IN THE LITERARY IMAGINATION: RABBI MILTON STEINBERG’S AS A DRIVEN LEAF
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    • Vol V: Issue 3 (Summer 2021 / 5781)
      • “THE RABBIS HAD TOO MUCH FREE TIME ON THEIR HANDS” By Rabbi Shai Cherry
      • Courageous Coherence
      • Reflections on Our Coherent and Compelling Universe
      • SOME THOUGHTS ON THE THEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT IN COHERENT JUDAISM By Richard Claman
    • Vol. V: Issue 2 – (Spring 2021/5781)
      • A JOURNEY THROUGH THE GATES OF GOOD AND EVIL IN JEWISH SOURCES: TOWARDS A MONISTIC-PSYCHOLOGICAL READING OF THE AZAZEL RITUAL
      • ALFONSO DE ZAMORA – A CRYPTO-JEW
      • CITIZEN-SOULS; TRANSLATING A JEWISH UNDERSTANDING OF ABORTION FROM ALGIERS TO AMERICA
      • SA’ADYAH AT THE CENTER: TOWARDS A DIFFERENT NARRATIVE ACCOUNT OF THE PLACE OF HIS PHILOSOPHY IN THE TRIUMPH OF RABBINIC JUDAISM
    • VOL. V: ISSUE I – (FALL-WINTER 2020 / 5781)
      • “TO WATER BY FOOT” – WHAT AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES WOULD THE ISRAELITES KNOWN WHEN THEY WERE IN EGYPT?
      • A MOMENT WHEN AMERICAN JEWS RALLIED TOGETHER;
      • BEYOND THE DOOR:
    • Volume IV: Issue 1–2 (Fall–Winter 2019–2020/5779–5780)
      • The Camouflaged Ta’am (“Motive”): Redemptive Implications of Rabbinic Theurgy – Shai Cherry
      • Reading Job (Iyyov) as a Stand-In for the People of Israel – Nathan Moretto and Richard L. Claman
      • Mind Control? A Halachic and Meta-Halachic Investigation of Forbidden Thoughts – Zachary James Silver
    • Volume III: Issue 1 (Fall 2018/5779)
      • Love as Strong as Death: Eros and Thanatos in the Sinai Theophany – Rachel Adelman
      • Patrilineal Descent & the Shaping of Intermarriage Discourse in American Judaism – Zev Eleff
      • Jewish Process Theology and the Problem of Evil: The Cases of Hans Jonas and Bradley Shavit Artson – Bar Guzi
      • Overlapping Magesteria: What Science and Religion Have In Common – Michael Wasserman
      • A Biblical Challenge: Can an Academic Approach Aimed at ‘Best Explanation’ of the Biblical Text Be Imported Into the Synagogue-Sermon World of ‘Interpretation?’ – Richard L. Claman
    • Volume III: Issue 2 (Winter 2018–2019/5779)
      • Al Parashat D’rakhim: The Negotiated Crossroads As a Rabbinic Metaphor – Martin S. Cohen
      • The Toshav Tzedek: Identity, Weddings, and Co-Officiation: Halakhic Structural Connectives – Reeve Robert Brenner
      • Who’s the “Real” Father? Paternity and Maternity in the Case of an Infertile Married Couple Who Become Parents Through Donor Gametes or Donor Embryos – Lucia Pizarro Wehlen
      • As a Driven Leaf After 80 Years – David Golinkin
      • A Philosophical Note On As a Driven Leaf – Richard L. Claman
    • — VOL. IV: ISSUE 3 (SPRING/SUMMER 5780/2020)
      • CAN WE REVIVE RASHI AND R. YEHOSHUA B. LEVI, NOTWITHSTANDING REISNER?
      • JACOB’S HOPE FOR SALVATION:
      • THE “BEEF”
    • Volume I, Issue 1
    • Volume I, Issue 2
    • Volume I, Issue 3
      • Stein, Is There a Standard of Rabbinic Pracice Against Intermarriage? A History of the Rabbinical Assembly’s Prohibition on Interfaith Marriage
      • Sommer, Reclaiming the Bible as a Jewish Book: The Legacy of Three Conservative Scholars (Yochanan Muffs, Moshe Greenberg, and Jacob Milgrom)
      • Golinkin, Why Is It Customary To Place A Stone On A Grave?
      • Rank, Addir Addirenu On Shabbat & Beyond
      • Claman, Judaism and American Civil/Political Society In the Age of Trump
    • Volume II: Issue 1 (Fall 2017/5778)
      • The Convert as Newborn by Martin S. Cohen
      • Why Did R. Naḥman Permit Yalta To Be Transported On a Palanquin On a Festival? A New Reading of Bavli Beṣah 25b by Judith Hauptman
      • A League of Their Own: The Untold Story of the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism by Raysh Weiss
      • Identity and Embodied Practice: Gender and Jewish Ritual Objects by Talia Kaplan
      • Tzitz, Tzitzit and the Budding Plant – Dina R. Shargel
      • A Snag in the Tradition of Checking Knives – Yonah Lavery-Yisraeli
      • The Faithful Modernist and the Synthesis Between Tradition and Modernity – Jack Shechter
      • So and So: A Philosophical Pas de Deux in Three Rounds – Yavni Bar-Yam
    • Volume II: Issue 2 (Winter 2017-2018/5778) | Special Issue on Judaism, the 21st Century and the Political
      • Eisen: Are We Witnessing the End of the Enlightenment?
      • Mittleman: Conscience, Criticism and Contemporary America
      • Gordon: The American Jewish Community as Civic and Political Association: Some Foundational Thoughts
      • Fink: On Big Lies, Prophetic Truths and Ham Sandwiches
      • Kirzane: To Serve the Cause for the Love of Truth: Politics from the Jewish Pulpit
      • Rank: In Fashions & Out Fashions: When Appearing Jewish Becomes Illegal
      • Claman: A Proposed Distinction Between Expectational and Aspirational Messianism
      • Howell: We Were Strangers Once
    • Volume II: Issue 3 (Spring 2018/5778)
      • A Talmudic Reading of the High Holiday Prayer Un’taneh Tokef
      • Quacks and Real Americans: Solomon Schechter’s Anti-Mormonism – Joseph H. Prouser
      • Rabbinic Self-Confidence: Bending the World to the Word – Martin S. Cohen
      • Jewish Law and Guns: A Modest Proposal – Nelly Altenburger
      • Offering to the Foundation Stone – Jill Hammer
    • Volume III: Issue 3 (Spring–Summer 2019/5779)
      • Contemporary Jewish Theology in Light of Divergent Biblical Views on Revelation’s Content – David Frankel
      • Reconstruction and Retrieval: On Historical and Philosophical Interpretations of Scripture – Alan Mittleman
      • On Bible Translations – Adele Berlin
      • Introducing Ḥumash Kol Ha-tor and M’gillot Kol Ha-Tor: Some preliminary Considerations – Martin S. Cohen
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Volume I, Issue 1

1. Consequences of Our Commitment to The Meaningfulness of Prayer Richard L. Claman 2. Is Fixed Liturgy Consistent with Heartfelt Prayer? Rabbi Joshua Cahan 3. I’ll Be Your Mirror: Did the Rabbis of the Talmud Fail to see Eretz Yisrael? Rabbi Marcus Mordecai Schwartz

         

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Senior Editors
Joshua Cahan
Richard L. Claman
Sharon Keller


Communications Editor
Carol Green


Managing Editor and Aesthetic Division
E. Rosamond Claman


Editorial Board
Judith Hauptman
Rachel Sabath Beit-Halachmi
Sara Labaton
Jonah Rank


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