This article is a piece of microhistorical research court case investigating religious conversion in Russia the 1820s. It presents story an Orthodox Christian girl who adopted ”Jewish law” and married Jewish man. The attempts to define background peculiarities clarify context which this was taking place. work uses various methods: narrative, comparative, contextual analysis, text interpretation...

To curb the spread of COVID-19, houses worship in State New York were legally required to limit attendance at religious ceremonies. Two communities—the Roman Catholic Diocese Brooklyn and Orthodox Jewish organization, Agudath Israel America—asked U.S. Supreme Court intervene. This article provides a theological interpretation Court’s decision grant these communities injunctive relief, thus free...

The seventh-century apocalyptic dialogue text Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati (Teaching of Jacob, Newly Baptized) depicts forcibly baptized Jews coming to terms with their new situation in hidden meetings led by Jacob. At a key moment the text, last voices Jewish resistance belong wife and mother-in-law one participants. This essay uses this women's interrogate gendered nature conversion empire...

Feminism has a variety of meanings. According to Nikki Craske, despite the often-heated debates about the meaning of feminism, most would likely concur with Rosalind Delmar’s assessment that feminism attempts to transform women from object to subject, specifically with respect to knowledge. In other words, feminism and by extension feminist activism is about centering the lives of women. Sonia ...

A unique screening program for the identification of Tay-Sachs Disease (TSD) heterozygotes has been performed in the tradi- tional Orthodox Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) community since 1983. In recent years the program has utilized the biochemical assay for the determination of hexosaminidase A levels by the heat inactivation technique as well as by direct DNA analysis. The three mutations which were ...

BACKGROUND Hypovitaminosis D is common worldwide, even in sunny regions. OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence and determinants of vitamin D deficiency in toddlers. METHODS A cross-sectional prospective study was conducted in healthy Jewish children aged 1.5-6 years at five primary care pediatric clinics in the Jerusalem area during the period October 2009 to November 2010. Parents were inter...

Byzantine music is a cover term for the liturgical music used in the Orthodox Church within the Byzantine Empire and the Churches regarded as continuing that tradition. This music is monophonic (with drone notes), exclusively vocal, and almost entirely sacred: very little secular music of this kind has been preserved, although we know that court ceremonial music in Byzantium was similar to the ...