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Monthly Archives: July 2020
Boy
Jack writes: The term persists in the name “busboy” which is still used. Because of child labor laws, menial jobs that were once done by children or young teens (e.g. bellboy, shoe shine boy) are now done by full grown … Continue reading
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What Many Transgender Activists Don’t Want You to Know: and why you should know it anyway
J. Michael Bailey writes: Currently the predominant cultural understanding of male-to-female transsexualism is that all male-to-female (MtF) transsexuals are, essentially, women trapped in men’s bodies. This understanding has little scientific basis, however, and is inconsistent with clinical observations. Ray Blanchard … Continue reading
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IS MODERN ORTHODOXY MOVING TOWARDS AN ACCEPTANCE OF BIBLICAL CRITICISM?
Marc Shapiro writes in 2019: If you take Louis Jacobs at his word, then the eruption of the so-called ‘‘Jacobs Affair’’ in the early 1960s was a big surprise to him. Some might find this difficult to believe, since how … Continue reading
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The Literary History of a Rabbinic Genre by Peter J. Haas
Haym Soloveitchik writes: I have read good books and I have read bad books, and now I have read a book by Peter J. Haas. It has been a singular experience, and I would like to share it with others. … Continue reading
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The Talmud of the Land of Israel: A Preliminary Translation and Explanation by Jacob Neusner
Saul Lieberman writes in 1984, shortly before his death: I HAVE BEFORE MY EYES A Preliminary Translation and Explanation of three tractates of the Palestinian Talmud (hereafter TP), vid. Horayot, Niddah and Abodah Zarah (hereafter AZ). In his Forward to … Continue reading
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