Table of Contents
B.D.D. 17
A Note from the Former Editor
Editor’s Note
Gil Student
The Mehitzah Controversy: Fifty Years Later
Jeffrey Sacks
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and the Israeli Chief Rabbinate: Biographical Notes
(1959-60)
Pamela Shatzkes
Review of Holocaust Hero by David Kranzler
Eli D. Clark
Review of Contemporary Judaism’s Response to Modernity by Barry Freundel
English Abstracts
Hebrew Section
A Note from the Former Editor
Editor’s Note
Zohar Amar
When did the Exceptional Devotion to Ritual Purity in Israel Begin and End
Natan Ophir
Tekhelet: Halakhah, Color and Meditation
Avraham Ofir Shemesh Detergents, Cleansing Materials and Soaps in Traditional Jewish Sources: Historical
Reality and Practical Halakhah
“Higayon”Section
Yaakov HaCohen-Kerner,
Eilon Malin, Issac Chasson A System that Learns to Summarize Hebrew Rabbinic Texts
Arieh Kimmelman
Formulae in the Hebrew Calendar
Book Reviews
Yaakov M. Levinger
Elyakim Krumbein
Hebrew Abstracts
New Light on Masekhet Hulin
Review of Mo’adei HaRav, edited by Shlomo Pick