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Halachic evolution in America

Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy, chaim Waxman, Littman Library of Jewish Civilization/Liverpool University Press, £29.95

By Dr Harris Bor

1 min read

Halachic evolution in America

Could you put yourself inside the mind of a trilobite?

Could you put yourself inside the mind of a trilobite?

Angela Kiverstein looks at the new book by Oren Harman, the professor who marries myth and science

By Angela Kiverstein

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Book review: Coming Soon: The Flood

Book review: Coming Soon: The Flood

David Herman reviews this veteran writer’s new novel of fragmented darkness

By David Herman

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Book review: Churchill: Walking With Destiny

Book review: Churchill: Walking With Destiny

Stephen Pollard offers high praise for an important biography

By Stephen Pollard

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Raising sparks, from Suffolk to Jerusalem

Ariel Kahn's debut novel has its roots in a real-life tragedy

By Rina Wolfson

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Book Review: Encounters With Albion: Britain and the British in Texts by Jewish Refugees From Nazism

David Herman is absorbed by a special history

By David Herman

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Books: Anne Frank tributes that steer clear of what is needed

Ben Barkow disputes the premises of two books on Anne Frank

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