Meorot – Tishrei 5771/2010

Tishrei 5771 Edition: Whither the Orthodox Rabbinate? 

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Articles

On Women in Rabbinic Leadership Positions
Daniel Sperber

Non-Halakhic Perspectives on Women’s Roles and Leadership in Orthodoxy
Nathaniel Helfgot, Erica Brown, Gidon Rothstein, Dena Najman

The Challenge of Halakhic Innovation
Benjamin Lau

Rabbi, Make a Fence for Yourself
Rael Strous

Conceptual and Logical Problems Arising from Defining Life and Death by the Presence or Absence of Circulation
Noam Stadlan

The Daled Amot of Halakhah

The Halakhic Parameters of Delaying Procreation
Moshe Kahn  

Review Essays

Transforming Identity: The Ritual Transformation from Gentile to Jew— Structure and Meaning by Avi Sagi and Zvi Zohar
Marc B. Shapiro

Windows on the World: Abraham’s Journey by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and Future Tense by Jonathan Sacks
Eugene Korn