Belovski

Books – Author

• Harmonisation as Theological Hermeneutic: the Interpretative Methodology of Rabbi Shemuel Bornstein of Sochaczew, (PhD dissertation published online, 2011)
• The Shabbat Siddur Companion (Southfield, MI: Targum Press, 2002)
• Shem MiShmuel: Selections on the Weekly Parashah and Festivals (Southfield, MI: Targum Press, 1998), French edition due for publication 2012

 

Books – Contributor

• My Favourite Psalm, CCJ multifaith work - forthcoming (contributor) 
• Bnei Akiva Sefer HaSefirah, 2011 (contributor)
• Inner Lights from Jerusalem, 2007 (preface)
• 60 Days for 60 Years, 2005 (contributor)
• Inspiring Lights, 2004 (contributor)

 

Books – In Development

• Dostoevsky and the Izbicer: 19th-Century Existentialism (working title)
• Transformational Beginnings: how Introductions to Classic Texts Shape Modern Jewish Thought (working title)

 

Jewish Chronicle Articles

• The Legacy: Teachings for Life from the Great Lithuanian Rabbis (2013, Review)  
• The Sages: Character, Context and Creativity (2012, Review) 
• Angels at the Table: a Practical Guide to Celebrating Shabbat (2011, Review)
• Festivals of Faith: Reflections on the Jewish Holidays (2011, Review)
• A Torah haven in the Geordie heartlands (2011)
• The Relationship of Orthodox Jews with Believing Jews of Other Religious Ideologies and Non-Believing Jews (2011, Review)
• Exodus: The Book of Redemption (2010, Review)
• Nathan or Dathan? How to pick a Hebrew name (2010)
• A trip to Israel is the best batmitzvah gift (2010)
• So why isn’t our meat good enough rabbi? (2009)
• An Introduction to medieval Jewish philosophy (2009, Review)
• JCoSS is non-Orthodox, not ‘cross-communal’ (2009)
• Intoxicated with God and Torah (2009, Review)
• There’s plenty of colour among the black hats (2008)
• Is it ethical to ‘hijack’ an Internet connection? (2008)
• How rabbis take on the software pirates (2008)
• Welcome to techno-Torah (2008)
• Must your online shop shut on Shabbat? (2008)
• So... can you write God’s name on a computer? (2008)
• How Torah can take on the internet (2007)
• At least, remember the rabbi’s joke (2007)
• Men, you mustn’t hear this woman sing (2007)
• Beware.  This fish is kosher-style (2007)
• Haircuts on Lag ba’Omer (2007)
• Internet ask-the-rabbis: the Judge’s verdict (2007)
• What do the e-rabbis know? (2007)
• When a woman may shake a man’s hand (2007)
• Custom and Practice – choosing a Lulav and Etrog (2006)
• Custom and Practice – leading the Grace (2006)
• Keep Adam and Eve out of the science class (2006)
• Custom and Practice – wishing someone ‘a long life’ (2006)
• Custom and Practice – Tu Bishvat (2006)
• Custom and Practice – guarding the dead (2005)
• Custom and Practice – locusts (2005)
• Custom and Practice – sleeping in the Sukkah (2005)
• Custom and Practice – sheva berachot (2005)
• Custom and Practice – repeating chazanim (2005)
• Custom and Practice – peyot (2005)
• Shiur magic (2005)
• Small talk (2005)
• Look who’s talking (2004)
• Going up the country (2004)
• It looks like bread, it tastes like bread, but it isn’t (2004)
• Ark royal (2004)
• Custom and Practice – when to wear a talit (2003)
• The beast in the cathedral (2003)
• Enjoying the fruits of freedom (2003)
• Apocalypse soon? (2003, Review)

 

Cross-Currents Articles

• Early entry in Pesach silliness award (2010)
• The place of a non-believing Jew (2010)
• Rabbi in Israel – War in Gaza (2009)
• Heady reflections on a Sukkot adventure (2008)
• Statues in Montreux (2008)
• What’s that for? Musar from a three-year-old (2008)
• The Pope and Praying in Hebrew (2008)
• Pesach Questions 5768 (2008)
• Haggadah – Two Views (2008)
• Means and ends (part 2) – Mazal Tov edition (2008)
• If you prick us, do we not bleed? (2008)
• Of Tu BiShevat and Etrogim (2008)
• Modern Orthodox or Chassidic? (2008)
• Leading From Behind (2007)
• Un-hijacking Hanukah (2007)
• Yippee: a Journey to Jewish Mazursky (2007)
• A Week in Jerusalem (2007)
• A visit to Sochaczew (2007)
• Our lives in our hands on Sukkot (2007)
• The Avinu-Malkenu Paradox, Resolved (2007)
• Hard Questions About Kiruv (2007)
• Remembrance of Tisha B’Av Past (2007)
• The Most Annoying Phrases (2007)
• Sacred or Superficial? (2007)
• Dating in Context (2007)
• Halachic Child (2007)
• Means and Ends (2007)
• Under-breeding Ourselves Out of Existence: A View From London (2007)
• A Grave Matter (2007)
• Why I Am A Boring Guest (2007)
• The Herd Mentality (2007)

 

Other Articles

• Is it Right for Religions to Treat Men and Women Differently? The Tablet (2013)
• First Impressions of the Koren Talmud, Jewish Action (2013)  
• The Orthodox Family of the 21st Century, Jewish Action (2012) 
• Pesach and Altruism, Jewish Volunteering Network (2011)
• What’s in a Word? You & US (2011)
• Discovering the Shem Mi'Shemuel of Sochaczew: Rosh Hashana and the tension between submission and self-expression, Degel (2010)
  
• Passion and Normality in Jewish Life, You and US (2010)
• A Jewish Response to Human Catastrophe, Jewish Action (2010)
• The Rock-Steady Suspension Bridge: on Principles and Acknowledging Difference, You & US (2010)
• Avoiding the Slide into Extremism, Jewish Action (2007)
• How portable is your faith? Jewish World Review (2006)
• Of Rosh HaShanah and Monkeys, Jewish World Review (2005)
• A First Response to the Tsunami Disaster, Jewish World Review (2005)
• This Year, throw away your Haggadah, Jewish World Review (2004)
• Multimedia Tool of Antiquity, Jewish World Review (2004)

 

United Synagogue Daf Hashavua 

117 contributions to March 2012, comprising

• Complete set of 53 contributions for Volume 23 (2010-11) - 19th Century Commentators
• Complete set of 54 contributions for Volume 20 (2007-8) - Midrash on the Parashah
• 13 other contibutions (2003-13)
• Downloads available from Daf Hashavua archive
  

 

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