Proceedings of the 2003 and 2005 Miami International Conferences on Torah and Science

Teaching Evolution in Jewish Schools
Lee M. Spetner, PhD

A Unified View of Torah and Evolution
Professor Eliezer Zeiger

Monkeying around with
Hominid Evolution
Yaacov Hanoka, PhD

Dating the Earth
Yaacov Hanoka, PhD

The Anthropic Principle:
What Is It and Why Is It Important for the Believing Person
Professor Nathan Aviezer

Rabbinic Silence: Intelligent Design?
Rabbi Professor Moshe Tendler

Creatio Ex Nihilo, Number Theory, Quantum Vacuum and the Big Bang
Alexander Poltorak

The Number π
Are the Bible and Mathematics Compatible?
Professor Isaac Elishakoff and Elliot Pines, Ph.D.

The Music of the Celestial Spheres
David Medved, PhD

Five-foot Giant of Torah and Science: My Father, Matest Agrest: 1915-2005
Mikhail M. Agrest, PhD

Proceedings of the Fifth Miami International Conference on Torah & Science
Part One: Genetics, Aging, and Prayer & Health

Liver Transplantation from a Living Donor

Rabbi Aaron Eli Glatt, MD

“Kosher” Talebearing
Seymour Hoffman, PhD

About Our Artists

Proceedings from the Fourth International Miami Conference on Torah & Science
Part Two: Math and Physics, and Humanities

Professor Eliezer Zeiger, Time, Space, and Consciousness

Yaacov Hanoka, PhD, Radioactive Rock Dating and the Age of the Earth

Rabbi Tzvi Freeman, Does Time Begin?

Professor Vera Schwarcz, The Garden of the Soul: Historical Memory and Personal Identity

Professor Ruvin Ferber, The Paradoxes of Quantum Physics, Maimonides, and the "I"

Professor Menachem Kovacs, Who Am I? Torah and Psychological Definitions of Self

Aaron Leib Dukes, MSc, Entering the Sabbath of History

Professor Yaakov Yavin, How Much Water Has to Flow into the Mikveh? A Mathematical Solution

Matest Agrest, Dr. Sci. and Mikhail M. Agrest, PhD, The Tablets of the Ten Commandments and Laser Technology

About Our Artists
Yaacov Kaszemacher
Devorah Kravetz

Poetry
Wendy Dickstein
 Eugene Dubnov
Felice Kahn Zisken
Vera Schwarcz
Yakov Azriel
Leah Dirnfeld

Proceedings from the Fourth International Miami Conference on Torah & Science
Part One: Neurology, Biology, Ecology, Humanities

Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar, Time, Space, and Being: An Introduction

Yakir Kaufman MD, Psychoneuroimmunology: The Science Connecting Body and Mind

Professor Carlos Warter MD, Neurotheology

Professor Miryam Z. Wahrman, Judging Genes

Lee M. Spetner PhD, Organic Evolution in the Twenty-First Century

Rabbi Professor Moshe D. Tendler, On the Interface: Immutable Torah, Unchanging Laws of Nature, Ever Changing Understanding of these Laws

Stan Tenen, Man Bites Dog

Professor Nathan Aviezer, The Extreme Longevity of the Early Generations in Genesis

Rabbi A.J. Seltzer PhD, Human Aging: The Journey of Soul Return

Professor James E. Huchingson, Celestial Voyaging to Planet Earth: Space, Time, and Being in the Context of Space Flight

Aryeh Gotfryd PhD, Biosphere as a Microsphere

Akiva Wolff, Judaism and the Modern Concept of Sustainability

Mordechai (Marc) Olesky, The Blueprint of Creation and Photosynthesis

Manfred Gerstenfeld, PhD and Tsachi Golan, Manna as an Environmental Paradigm

Nathaniel S. Lehrman MD, Helpmates: Mother and Father as Cotherapy Model

Seymour Hoffman, PhD, Probabilistic Analysis of the ‘Torah Codes’: A False Premise?

Seymour Hoffman PhD, On Controlling Urges

B'Or  Ha'Torah Volume 13  2002

Proceedings from the Third International Miami Conference on Torah & Science
Part Two: Physics & Math, Humanities

Avi Rabinowitz, PhD, And G-d Said, "Let There Have Been a Big Bang"

Alexander Poltorak, PhD, On the Age of the Universe

Professor Ruvin Ferber & Professor Herman Branover, Observer and the System of Reference: A Unified View

Professor Juris Zakis, Give Me a Place to Stand!

Professor Norbert Samuelson, Creation and the Symbiosis of Science and Judaism

Russell Jay Hendel, PhD, Genesis 1 Speaks about the Creation of Prophecy, Not the Creation of the World

Yaacov Hanoka, PhD , Continental Drift, Asteroid Impacts, and the Flood

Professor Nathan Aviezer Richard Dawkins and Darwinian Fundamentalism

Professor Edward Simon , Review of Not by Chance: Review of Not by Chance: Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution by Dr. Lee Spetner

Tsvi Victor Saks, PhD Different Levels of Infinity in Torah and Mathematics

Professor Shimon Silman, A System of Logic for Messianic Phenomena

Professor Yossef Marcio Zukin, Artificial, Human, and Infinite Intelligence

Ari Belenkiy, PhD, Mathematical Drash

Menachem Kovacs, PhD, Finding G-d in the Study of the Sociology of Religion

Deena R. Zimmerman, MD,Lactational Amenorrhea and Mesuleket Damim—a Medical Halakhic Analysis

Seymour Hoffman, PhD & Rabbi Yehoshua Hacarmi , Rabbinic Insights into Behavior Change

Professor Isaac Elishakoff , Probabilistic Analysis of the ‘Torah Codes’: A False Premise?

Raphael Yehezkael , Lending without Interest in a Jewish State

Reuven Ben Dov, MD, Book Reviews

Yael Levine Katz, PhD, Prayers of the Mothers for the Rebuilding of the Temple

Poetry  *  Letter to the Editor  * 
About our Artists

B'Or  Ha'Torah Volume 12  2000

Proceedings from the Third International Miami Conference on Torah & Science
Part One: Medical Ethics & Humanities

Professor Miryam Z. Wahrman, Human Cloning: Is It Kosher?

Professor Fred Rosner, MD, FACP, Genetic Screening, Genetic Therapy & Cloning in Judaism

Rabbi Professor Moshe D. Tendler, Cell & Organ Transplantation: The Torah Perspective

Professor Tobiy Gurvich, MD, DSc & Professor Herman Branover, DSc, Soul & Body—Judaism, Modern Medicine & Cloning

Rabbi Kenneth Brander, Artificial Insemination & Surrogate Motherhood through the Prism of Jewish Law

Daniel Kantor, Professor Jeffrey Kantor& Jonathan Kantor, Cloning Revisited: Blessing or Curse?

Professor Velvl Greene, Jewish Medical Ethics on the Threshold of a New
Century: Trends & Challenges

Louis Flancbaum, MD, Using Jewish Medical Ethics to Appreciate the Relative among the Absolute

Dr. Jonathan Braunstien, The Impact of Religion & Spirituality on Health

Rabbi Dr. Arthur Seltzer, Cardio-Energetics & the Kabbala

Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar, Spiritual Modality for Behavior Modification

Professor Yitzchak Block, G-d & Morality

Professor James E. Huchingson, Science & Religion at the Millennium:
The Range of Engagement

Pamela H. Elfenbein, PhD, MSW, Torah Study, Prayer & Health:
A Proposal to Examine the Impact of Torah Study & Prayer on the Health of Older Adults

Book Reviews
Reuven Ben-Dov, MD

Shira Leibowitz Schmidt , Men = Women ? Men: Difference Deniers & Difference Celebrators

Poetry  *  Letter to the Editor  * 
About our Artists

B'Or  Ha'Torah Volume 11  1999

Professor Yitzchok Block,   Creation: The Argument from Finitude

Special Section on the Origin of the  Universe

Professor Herman Branover, and Professor Ruvin Ferber The Concept  of Absolute Time
in Science and Jewish Thought

Professor Gerald Schroeder, Time and the Age of our Universe

Professor Nathan Aviezer, Man as the Pinnacle of Creation

Rabbi Dr. Naftali Berg', Ten Dimensions:
A Physical Theory of Everything

Yanki Tauber, Inside Time Rendered  

Raphael Ruderman, Like the Leaves on the Willow Tree

Dr. Ephraim Nissan, The Shabbat Notepad

Rabbi Yitshak Yehuda Rozen, Reaching the Moon: The Lubavitcher Rebbe on Outer Space

Professor Nathan Aviezer, Life on Mars?

Rabbi Dr. Shimon Dovid Cowen , Torah Metaphysics versus Newtonian Empiricism

Professor Avraham Kushelevsky, Why Wasn't Newton Born in China?

Dr. Yoseph Udelson, Solomon Maimon:
A Second Look at the Enlightenment

Wendy Dickstein, Joy and Sorrow (from a novelization of The Life of Gluckel of Hameln)

Professor A.M. Hasofer , Torah Code Abuse (a review of The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin)

Book Reviews

Asher Epstein, Reuven Ben Dov, MD

Professor Dan Vogel, Torah and the Literary Imagination

Letters to the Editor

Susan Schneider , Women's Rights in the Torah: The Daughters of Tslofhad

Dr. Baruch Sterman, The Meaning of Tekhelet

Poetry
Raphael Ruderman and Roberta Chester

B'Or  Ha'Torah Volume 10  1997

Dr. Aryeh Gotfryd, "Global  Ecology: On the Road to Redemption"

Prof. Herman Branover,  "Towards Environmental Consciousness—The Need to Educate"

Ilana and Yehuda Attia,  "Jewish Environmental Law: A Selected Bibliography"

Rabbi Dr. Aryeh Strikovsky,  "G-d, Man, and Tree"

Prof. Yehudah Levi, "The  Problem of Ecology: Living at the Expense of Future Generations"'

Eyal Goldberger, "Healing  Bitter Water and Water as an Agent in Healing"

Rabbi Dr. Aryeh Strikovsky,  "The Biblical History of Rainfall and Irrigation"

Rabbi Yanki Tauber, "The Fluidity of Life:  From the Notebooks of Rabbi M.M. Schneerson"

Yaakov Levinson, "The Apple Revealed: From a  Jewish and Nutritional Perspective"

Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, "The Jewish  Academy"

Prof. Eliezer Zeiger, "Torah and Science:  From Elokim to Havaya, Part Two"

Peter Kalms, "Justice in the  Marketplace"

Dr. Russell Jay Hendel, "Jewish Bankruptcy  Law as a Vehicle for Societal Kindness"

Dr. Alexander Poltorak, "Mezuza – The  Arrow in Life"

Janet Berg, "Towards an Authentic Judaica: A  Design Strategy for Ritual Objects"

B'Or  Ha'Torah Volume 9  1995

a

Prof. Herman Branover, "The Lubavitcher Rebbe  on Science and Technology"

b

Rabbi Dr. N.J. Berg, "Preparing for Mashiah:  Understanding the Hasidic Concepts of Divine Providence and Free Will through the  Laws of Physics"

c

Prof. Shimon Glick, MD,  "Telling the Patient the Truth"

d

Rabbi Shlomo Aviner,  "Confronting the Dangerously Ill with his Condition"

e

Prof. A.S. Abraham, MD, FRCP,  "To Treat or not to Treat—Euthanasia and Jewish Law"

f

Prof. G.N. Schlesinger,  "Aging and the Quality of Life"

g

Prof. Yehudah Levi, "The Right to Private  Property"

h

Prof. Eliezer Zeiger, "Torah and Science:  From Elokim to Havaya"

i

Prof. Zvi Victor Saks, "On the Nature of  Truth in Mathematics"

j

Natan Pinsky, "A New Method of Calculating  the Christian Date of Rosh Hashana"

k

Prof. Daniel Michelson, "Codes in the Torah:  A Reply to Prof. Hasofer"

l

Prof. Paul Eidelberg, "Codes of the Torah: In  Defense of Seriousness"

m

Prof. A.M. Hasofer, "Reply to  Discussion"

n

Dr. Benjamin Goodnick, "On Whose Face are You  Standing?"

Autobiographical Accounts, Fiction, and Poetry

B'Or  Ha'Torah Volume 8  1993

a

"Five Bioethics Questions Raised by Doctors  and Medical Students" Answered by Rabbi Yitschak Zilberstein

b

Avraham Steinberg, MD, "What  Is Jewish Medical Ethics?"

c

Avraham Steinberg, MD,  Free Will versus Determinism in Bioethics"

d

Rabbi Mordechai Halperin, MD,  "Modern Perspectives on Halacha and Medicine"

e

Rabbi Mordechai Halperin, MD, "On Selling Tissues and  Organs"

f

Eli J. Schussheim, MD and Rabbi  Eliezer Waldenberg, "Should Jewish Law Forbid Smoking?"

g

Yaakov Levinson, "The Spirituality of  Eating"

h

Eli Cohen, "Modern Mathematics in Support of  the Fundamentals of Halacha"

i

Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, "Numbers Have  Meaning"

j

Prof. Yehudah Levi, "Is the Torah  Capitalistic or Socialistic?"

k

Prof. Yehudah Levi, "Can Torah be Observed in Outer Space?"

l

Prof. A.M. Hasofer, "Codes in the Torah: A  Rejoinder"

m

Prof. Yakov Brawer, "Something from  Nothing"

n

Poetry and Fiction

o

Book Reviews

p

Nechama Nadborny, "The Twelve Dimensions of  Israel"

B'Or  Ha'Torah Volume 7  1991

a

Prof. Abraham S. Abraham , MD, FRCP, "Organ Transplantation and Jewish Law"

b

Prof. G.N. Schlesinger, "Musings on the Logic of Repentence"

c

Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, "Introduction to Mathematical Structure in Torah"

d

Prof. Avraham Kushelevky,"The Religious Foundations of Science"

e

Prof. Avraham Kushelevky , "The War between Religion and Science in the Nineteenth Century and the Change in the Twentieth Century"

f

Prof. Avraham Kushelevky, "Halacha and the Preservation of the Text of the Holy Scriptures"

g

Rabbi Dr. Aryeh Strikovsky, "Suffering for the Land of Israel"

h

Dr. J. Tuvia Buchbinder,"Mental Health Services and the Charedi Community in Jerusalem"

i

Sarah Ben-Arza , "The Third Way: The Jewish Psychoanalytic Approach of Dr. Ida Akerman"

j

Susan Schneider, "The Underside of Creative Expression"

k

Yaffa Goldstein, "Where the Roads Meet-with Composer Andre Hajdu"

l

Joe Cannon, "The Turning"

m

David Ben-Dor, "It Was No Holocaust"

n

David Ben-Dor,"Kano"

o

Book Reviews

p

Michael Greenberg, "Graves of Tzaddikim in Russia"

q

Prof. Herman Branover, "A Return to 'Mother Russia' "

r

Ilana Attia, "The King's Gallery"

B'Or  Ha'Torah Volume 6  1987

a

Prof. Daniel Michelson, "Codes in the  Torah"

b

Dr. Aryeh Gotfryd, "On Acknowledging the  Creator in Scientific Literature"

c

Prof. Velvl Greene, "The Torah-Science  Debates"

d

Dr. Avi Rabinowitz, "The Cosmic Prayer  Connection"

e

Rabbi Haim Lifshitz & Mordechai Beck,  "Creative Transcendence"

f

Asher Grossberg, "Ancient Synagogues and the  Temple"

g

Prof. Mendel Sachs, "On Ideas of Physics and  Kabbala"

h

Prof. Yitzchok Block, "G-d and Rationality  Revisited"

i

Dr. Benjamin Goodnick, "What Does the Torah  Mean?"

j

Y.H. Ben David, "Did any of the Lost Tribes  Go North?"

k

Zahava Levine , "The Role of Women in Bringing  the Redemption"

l

Dr. Avi Rabinowitz, "Free Will"

m

Prof. Velvl Greene, "Speculations about  Kashrut"

n

Prof. Velvl Greene, "A Set of Dishes"

o

Binyamin Cantz, "Wine"

p

Fiction & Poetry

B'Or  Ha'Torah Volume 5  1986

a

Dr. Avi Rabinowitz, "Geocentrism"

b

Prof. Paul Goldstein, "Living Water: Concept  of Mida k'neged Mida and Cellular Homeostasis"

c

Prof. Velvl Greene, "Ethical Issues in  Community Health"

d

Dr. Yoseph Udelson, "Worlds of  Difference"

e

Dr. George Kranzler, "Metaeconomics"

f

Gedaliah Fleer and Allen Afterman,  "Tales of the Tzaddikim"

g

Yehoshua Levine, "Rabbi Acha bar Ya'akov  and the Demon"

h

Chana Poupko , Tzipora Heller,  & Malka Bina, "On Jewish Education & Women"

i

Mordechai Beck, "Journey to Jewish  Scandinavia"

j

Yehuda Bari , "Hi-Tech in a Torah Frame:  Jerusalem College of Technology"

Book Reviews

B'Or  Ha'Torah Volume 4  1984

a

Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, "Sister, Companion,  Dove, Perfect One"

b

Susan Schneider, "Evolution—Form and  Consciousness"

c

Miriam Levi , "A Seminar on Effective Jewish  Parenting"

Book Reviews

d

Natan Barcahan, "Mesirus Nefesh Mamash"

e

Naomi Kaplan , "Portrait of our Cover  Artist"

Poetry

B'Or  Ha'Torah Volume 3 Winter-Spring 1983

a

Prof. Paul Rosenbloom , "What We Cannot Know"

b

Prof. Avraham Hasofer, "A Statistician Looks a Neo-Darwinism"

c

Prof. Mendel Sachs, "On a Scientist's Comprehension of the Universe"

d

Dr. Zvi Faier,"Freedom and Creation"

e

Dr. Miriam Grossman, MD, "Antidote to the Existential Blues"

f

Sylvia Berger , "Three Soldiers/three lives"

g

Reuven Kruger, "Shabbos Gypsies"

h

Dr. Ida Akerman, MD, Protest Poetry

B'Or  Ha'Torah Volume 2 Summer 1982

a

Greetings from the Lubavitcher Rebbe

b

Rabbi Menahem Mendel Schneerson, "Activating the Giants"

c

Dr. Lee M. Spetner, "The Evolutionary Doctrine"

d

Dr. Lee M. Spetner,"Information Theory Considerations of Organic Evolution"

e

Dr. Yaacov Hanoka, "Torah, Science and Carbon 14"

f

Rabbi Dr. N.J. Berg , "The Creator in the Creation"

g

Prof. Mendel Sachs, "Antiscience within Science"

h

Prof. Yitzchok Block, "G-d and Rationality"

i

Dr. George Kranzler, "Metasociology"

j

Prof. Velvl Greene, "The Science-Religion Rift"

k

Dr. Haim Sokolik, "Four Fables"

l

Mordechai Beck, "The Wedding Dance"

B'Or Ha'Torah Volume  1  1982

a

Rabbi Manis Friedman, "The Feminine  Mystique"

b

Dr. Alvin Radkowsky, "The Faith of an  Orthodox Jewish Scientist"

c

Gedaliah Shaffer, "Modern Physics and Jewish  Mysticism"

d

Prof. Yakov Brawer, "Neurology and the  Soul"

e

Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel, "What is 'Torah  Outlook'?"

f

Chana Forse , "Seeing the Voices: The Jewish  Woman's Traditional Relationship to Torah"

Portraits of Six Former 'Jews of Silence'

Poetry