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My Publications

Academic:

The Perameters of Precedent in Psak Halakhah

Women in the Medieval Synagogue

Review of E. Kanarfogel, Behind the Lattices

Pat Akum: The Origin and Significance of a Medieval Custom

Renaissance Echoes in a Rabbinic Responsum

In Search of the Rav (BaDaD)

Maimonides Revised

בית הכנסת באשכנז: בין דימוי להלכה

Rabbinic Culture in the Italian Piedmont

Damsels in Distress: Jewish Women in Renaissance Italy

Review of M. Shapiro, Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy

Non-Academic:

• On Assimilation in Israel (Scan)
• On Assimilation in Israel
• Israel Ta Shma and the Byzantine Connection
• On Pesach Humrot (German)
• Interview on the Conversion Crisis in the Jerusalem Post
• Interview on Srugim in the London Jewish Chronicle
• Temple and Synagogue in Medieval Ashkenaz (Parshat Terumah)
• Heroism in Pesak Halakhah
• Rav Soloveitchik and Religious Zionist Discourse in Israel
• Review of Haim Navon, Ne'ehaz ba-Sevakh, on the Rav's Thought
• A Bostonian's Memoir of the Rav
• The Power of Disbelief
• A Cri de Coeur
• Le-Zekher R. David HaLevi Applebaum
• Between the Practical and the Spiritual
• Study and Sacrifices
• Aqedah and Historical Memory
• Qeri'at Ha-Torah in the Teachings of Rav Soloveitchik
• Did Haman Know that Mordechai was Jewish?
• Reflections on Leadership
• Confrontation with Yaron Yadan (Jerusalem Report)
• Responsum on Smoking
• In Defense of Bar-Ilan (November 1995)
• Pastoral Aspects of Pre-Nuptial Agreements

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Jeffrey Woolf is a Senior Lecturer in the Talmud Department at Bar Ilan University