Kosher Bookworm: More news from the publishing front

Judaica Press has recently reissued the classic, “The Practical Guide To Teshuvah” by Rabbi Shaul Wagschal as an apt companion to Rabbi Wegbreit’s sefer.

The latest issue of HAKIRAH, The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought, volume 12, edited by Heshy Zelcer, has just been published. Within this work are essays dealing with issues on changes in liturgy, severance pay, abusive parents, tefillat shav, issues dealing with errors in Hebrew books and legislating morality – the prohibition of lashon hara.

Also, featured is an eighteen page discussion by Arthur Goldberg, co-director of “Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing”, with Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky dealing with issues involving homosexuality in the frum community.

This current issue of HAKIRAH should be available at most area bookstores. If you do not see it, ask for it. It will be well worth your effort.

Also, just released is the latest issue of “The Journal of Halacha and Contemporary Society” Fall 2011, published by the Rabbi Jacob Joseph School.

Within this issue are essays dealing with the deactivation of implantable pacemakers and defibrillators in terminally – ill patients, the limits to saving lives, the use of biologic scaffolding materials, and a twenty four page essay on the nullification of conversions by Dayan HaRav Chaim Jachter. This essay is drawn from the upcoming forth volume of “Gray Matter.”

I extend to you, my dear readers, a kesiva, va’chasima tova.