Acknowledgments

CONTENTS

Introduction

Moshe Zemer: An Appreciation

Walter Jacob

German Romanticism and the Jews: The Intellectual Basis for Halakhic Reform

Peter Haas

Against Method: Liberal Halakhah Between Theory and Practice Mark Washofsky

" It is Time to Act for the Lord:" Toward a Hermeneutics for Progressive Halakhah

Peter Knobel

Halakhah and the Modern Temper

Jack Cohen

Writing Responsa: A Personal Journey

Walter Jacob.

Ethics Versus Ritual

John D. Rayner.

On the Standard of Holiness in Jewish Law

Jonathan Cohen

Tzedakah: Aspiring to a Higher Ethic

Daniel Schiff