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Not Quite Fifty Years Behind America

Ten years ago on Simchat Torah, three American friends and I walked from synagogue to synagogue in our North West London neighborhood, looking ...

Minyan: The Congregational Quorum

Only in a group of 10 or more adult Jews is there sufficient sanctity to recite certain public prayers.

Gittin 22

Who can write a get?

Gittin 45

The price of redemption.

Death as Estrangement

Mourning customs reflect the depersonalization and distance from God experienced by the mourner who has just confronted the death of a close relative.

Karaite Marriage

How Karaite laws influence weddings, divorce and ritual purity.

Nazir 53

A ruling from the prophets.

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