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- women as ritual slaughterers  Ute Steyer [mailto:utsteyer@jtsa.edu] - women as ritual slaughterers  Shalom Berger [mailto:szberger@gmail.com] - TOC: Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations vol.6  Ruth Langer <ruth.langer@bc.edu> - CFP: "The Ukrainian and Jewish Artistic and Architectural Milieus of Lwów/Lemberg/Lviv," Lviv, November, 2012  Vladimir Levin [mailto:vlevin@mscc.huji.ac.il] - Query: women and shechita  Archive [mailto:Archives@vms.huji.ac.il] - NEH program on Religious Pluralism in America  scholl [mailto:scholl@newberry.org] - Query: biblical and rabbinic references to water diseases  Caryn S. Aviv [mailto:Caryn.Aviv@Colorado.EDU]

Reviewer: Edward Baring Title: The Figural Jew: Politics and Identity in Postwar French Thought Author: Sarah Hammerschlag   Reviewer: David Levine Title: Dispute for the Sake of Heaven: Legal Pluralism in the Talmud Author: Richard Hidary   Reviewer: Dean Phillip Bell Title: Beyond Expulsion: Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg Author: Debra Kaplan

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