Seventy Faces: Divided We Stand, but It Is Time to Try an Idea That Might Help Us Stand Taller
Norman Lamm
1986
The predictions of an unbridgeable and cataclysmic rupture within the Jewish community agitate all of us who love and care for and worry about our Jewish people and its future. The twin issues of conversion and of Jewish marital legitimacy—proper gittin (divorces) and, in their absence, subsequent adultery and the blemish of mamzerut (bastardy)…
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