Excommunication
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(We are grateful to Dr. David Golomb, Professor Emeritus at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, for this translation.) Text of the Decree of Excommunication My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth (Psalm 121:2) The leaders of the people, rabbis of Greater New York and surroundings, heads of yeshivos, hasidic leaders, and…
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by Zachary Silver (We are grateful to the American Jewish Achives Journal for permission to republish this article, which first appeared there in Vol. 62, No. 1 (2010), pp. 21-48.)
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by Marc B. Shapiro, Ph.D. — Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Scranton (We are grateful to Professor Shapiro for permission to republish this piece, and the accompanying materials, which first appeared, as part of a longer article covering other topics as well, on the Seforim blog [seforimblog.com] on September 10, 2014.) In…