Menachem Mendel » New Articles http://menachemmendel.net/blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:59:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 G’vanim vol. 7:1 http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2012/01/05/gvanim-vol-71/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gvanim-vol-71 http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2012/01/05/gvanim-vol-71/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:06:13 +0000 Menachem Mendel http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=5217 The Academy for Jewish Religion, where I am on staff, publishes a journal G’vanim that includes a wide variety of articles on Jewish Studies. I have an article on the responsa of Rabbi Yehudah Leib Zirelson. All of the articles can be found here in PDF format.

Is the Entire Kotel Plaza Really a Synagogue?
David Golinkin

Ruth and Naomi: The Return of the Seed
Jill Hammer

El Adon – An Historical, Literary, and Spiritual Commentary
Jeffrey Hoffman

Modernity as Seen Through the Responsa of Rabbi Yehudah Leib Zirelson
Michael Pitkowsky

The Conversion of Rabbi Samson
Joseph H. Prouser

]]> http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2012/01/05/gvanim-vol-71/feed/ 0 Meorot Tishrei 5772 http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/10/04/meorot-tishrei-5772/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meorot-tishrei-5772 http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/10/04/meorot-tishrei-5772/#comments Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:16:24 +0000 Menachem Mendel http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=4761 A new issue of Meorot, formerly the Edah Journal and now published by Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, is available. (here) There is an article about women participating in a zimmun and another about selling land to Gentiles in Israel, along with other interesting ones. (hat tip)

]]> http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/10/04/meorot-tishrei-5772/feed/ 0 Forgotten Shofar Blowing and the Stam http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/09/26/forgotten-shofar-blowing-and-the-stam/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=forgotten-shofar-blowing-and-the-stam http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/09/26/forgotten-shofar-blowing-and-the-stam/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:41:10 +0000 Menachem Mendel http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=4728 In Musaf Shabbat of Makor Rishon, Carmiel Cohen reviewed (Hebrew) a double-issue of Sidra that was devoted to Prof. Aryeh Steinfeld.

Cohen wrote at length about two articles that appeared in this issue. The first is by Mordechai Akiva Friedman and is about the possibility that other shofar blowings for Rosh ha-Shannah existed in the Rabbinic Period, and these eventually ceased to be observed. The second is by Robert Brody and relates to the dating of the Stammaitic (anonymous) strata of Talmudic literature.

]]> http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/09/26/forgotten-shofar-blowing-and-the-stam/feed/ 0 Article: Human Rights and Jewish Law http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/08/14/article-human-rights-and-jewish-law/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=article-human-rights-and-jewish-law http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/08/14/article-human-rights-and-jewish-law/#comments Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:44:06 +0000 Menachem Mendel http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=4547 David Wermuth, “Human Rights in Jewish Law: Contemporary Juristic and Rabbinic Conceptions,” in University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 32:4. The article can be downloaded here.

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A double-issue of Sidra has recently been published. This special volume is dedicated to Prof. Zvi Aryeh Steinfeld. A full list of the articles can be found here. There seem to be a number of interesting articles.

]]> http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/05/16/sidra-24-25/feed/ 0 Quntres 2:1 http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/02/17/quntres-21/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=quntres-21 http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/02/17/quntres-21/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:05:11 +0000 Menachem Mendel http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=4022 A new volume of Quntres: An Online Journal for the History, Culture, and Art of the Jewish Book is available here. Here are its contents.

Often Overlooked: Examples of Front-matter in Early Hebrew Books
Marvin J. Heller

Sibling Rivalry: Simultaneous Editions of Hebrew Books
Marvin J. Heller

In Search of the Editio Princeps of the First Hasidic Book
Yosef Fagin

ספרי שאלות ותשובות כמקור לחקר תופעת הנשים העגונות בחברה
היהודית
Haim Sperber

הערה על טכניקה נדירה של מעתיקים

Simcha Emmanuel

]]> http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/02/17/quntres-21/feed/ 0 The Defilement of the Hands http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/01/26/the-defilement-of-the-hands/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-defilement-of-the-hands http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/01/26/the-defilement-of-the-hands/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:48:07 +0000 Menachem Mendel http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=3939 The following article is available here for free until Feb. 28.

Timothy H. Lim, “The Defilement of the Hands as a Principle Determining the Holiness of Scriptures,” Journal of Theological Studies

]]> http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/01/26/the-defilement-of-the-hands/feed/ 0 Hutzpedika Shmutzdikah Giyyoret http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/01/24/hutzpedika-shmutzdikah-giyyoret/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hutzpedika-shmutzdikah-giyyoret http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/01/24/hutzpedika-shmutzdikah-giyyoret/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:05:03 +0000 Menachem Mendel http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=3931 Here are some articles (Hebrew) from the new volume of Iyyunim bi-Tekumat Yisrael. (hat tip)

-Kimmy Caplan, “‘Hutzpedika Shmutzdikah Giyyoret’: Ha-Parashah shel Nissuei Amram Blau ve-Rut ben-David” (here)
-Nissim Leon, “Halakhah ve-Populism be-Yahadut ha-Mizrahit bat Zemaneinu” (here)
-Michal Shaul, “Shikum ha-Hevrah ha-Haredit be-Yisrael be-Tzel ha-Shoah” (here)

]]> http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/01/24/hutzpedika-shmutzdikah-giyyoret/feed/ 2 Russian Immigrants, Israeli Identity, and Jewish Peoplehood http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/01/19/russian-immigrants-israeli-identity-and-jewish-peoplehood/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russian-immigrants-israeli-identity-and-jewish-peoplehood http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/01/19/russian-immigrants-israeli-identity-and-jewish-peoplehood/#comments Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:59:21 +0000 Menachem Mendel http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=3903 One of the larger questions related to the current discussion about conversion in Israel is the relationship between Israeli identity and Jewish peoplehood. Decades ago Canaanism called for the creation of a new identity unrelated to Judaism and the Jewish people. While Canaanism may not exist anymore, many Israelis are de facto living according to its tenets, and the issues that it tried to address haven’t become any less challenging.

An informative treatment of the challenges that Israel and Israeli identity faces today with thousands of non-Jewish immigrants can be found in Alexander Yakobson’s article Joining the Jewish People: Non-Jewish Immigrants from the Former USSR, Israeli Identity and Jewish Peoplehood, Israel Law Review 43:1, 2010. Here’s the abstract:

The Law of Return grants every Jew the right to immigrate to Israel; this also applies to non-Jewish relatives of Jews. The Citizenship Law grants every such “returnee” automatic citizenship. The wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union in the 90s brought a large number of immigrants not considered Jewish under the definition accepted in Israel. Is this large group of Israeli citizens—who do not, at least formally, belong to the Jewish people—an emerging second substantial national minority in Israel? This Article argues that regardless of formal definitions based on Orthodox religious law under which a religious conversion is the only way for a non-Jew to become Jewish, these immigrants, through their successful social and cultural integration in the Hebrew-speaking Jewish society in Israel, are joining, de facto, the Jewish people. It is no longer true that religious conversion is the only way to join the Jewish people.

]]> http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2011/01/19/russian-immigrants-israeli-identity-and-jewish-peoplehood/feed/ 2 The Excommunication of Mordechai Kaplan http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2010/10/19/the-excommunication-of-mordechai-kaplan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-excommunication-of-mordechai-kaplan http://menachemmendel.net/blog/2010/10/19/the-excommunication-of-mordechai-kaplan/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:18:57 +0000 Menachem Mendel http://menachemmendel.net/blog/?p=3393 Magash Hakesef writes about his recently published article, The Excommunication of Mordechai Kaplan.

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