Joel B. Wolowelsky

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Dr. Joel B. Wolowelsky is Dean of the Faculty at the Yeshivah of Flatbush high school, and an author on topics pertaining to the role of women in Judaism and Jewish medical ethics. He is the Associate Editor of Tradition, the Journal of Jewish Thought and of the Toras HoRav Foundation, which is bringing to print the unpublished works of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik.[1]

He currently teaches mathematics and ethics at the Yeshivah of Flatbush high school.

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[edit] Works

[edit] Written

  • Jewish Education (1982)
  • Women, Jewish Law and Modernity: New Opportunities in a Post-Feminist Age (1997)
  • Women at the Seder: A Passover Haggadah (2005)
  • "On Kohanim and Uncommon Aliyyot". Tradition 39:2 (2005)
  • War and Peace in the Jewish Tradition (2007)

[edit] Edited

  • The Conversion Crisis: Essays From the Pages of Tradition (1990)
  • Jewish Law and The New Reproductive Technologies (1997)
  • Women and the Study of Torah (2001)
  • Family Redeemed: Essays on Family Relationships (2002)
  • Out of the Whirlwind: Essays on Mourning, Suffering and the Human Condition (2003)
  • Mind, Body and Judaism: The Interaction of Jewish Law With Psychology and Biology (2004)
  • Festival of Freedom: Essays on Pesah and the Haggadah (2006)
  • Days of Deliverance: Essays on Purim and Hanukkah (2007)

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