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PREFACE

\ A J e continue to be grateful to the Rodef Shalom Congregation for supporting the Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah and its assistance in

technical matters connected with the publication of this volume.

Our special gratitude to Karen Feinstein and the Jewish Health Care Foundation of Pittsburgh for the support of this volume and the symposia which led to it. Their continuing interest in this project has been most helpful.

Our thanks as well to Nancy Berkowitz who has carefully copy edited and proof read two volumes in this series. We wish to thank Barbara Bailey for her efforts with the typescript for this volume as well as previous volumes.