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Click on the header link to return to the top of the page.</font></b></p> <p align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <p align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><b><font color="#000080" size="2"> <a href="#A">A</a> <a href="responsa_page2.htm#B">B</a> <a href="responsa_page3.htm#C">C</a> D E F G <a href="responsa_page3.htm#H">H</a> <a href="responsa_page4.htm#I"> I </a> J <a href="responsa_page4.htm#K">K </a> L <a href="responsa_page4.htm#M">M</a> <a href="responsa_page5.htm#N">N</a> <a href="responsa_page5.htm#O">O</a> <a href="responsa_page5.htm#P">P</a> Q <a href="responsa_page5.htm#R">R</a> <a href="responsa_page5.htm#S">S</a> <a href="responsa_page5.htm#T">T</a> U V W X Y Z</font></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="597"><p> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font size="2"><b><u><a name="A" href="#top">Adopted Child/ren</a></u></b></font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font size="2">and conversion <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131014000947/http://data.ccarnet.org/cgi-bin/respdisp.pl?file=1&year=5759" target="_blank">NYP no. 5759.1</a><br> changing Hebrew name of, after <i>b'rit milah</i>, XCVIII (1988) 155-156 (JRJ, Fall 1988, 71-72; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131014000947/http://www.data.ccarnet.org/cgi-bin/respdisp.pl?file=119&year=narr" target="_blank">NARR 187-188</a>)<br> necessary steps for conversion LXXXIX(1979) 112-115 (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131014000947/http://www.data.ccarnet.org/cgi-bin/respdisp.pl?file=63&year=arr" target="_blank">ARR 203-207</a>)<br> status of, in Judaism LXXXIX(1979) 112-115 (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131014000947/http://www.data.ccarnet.org/cgi-bin/respdisp.pl?file=63&year=arr" target="_blank">ARR 203-207</a>)</font></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font size="2"><b><u><a href="#top">AIDS (see Epidemics)</a></u></b></font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font size="2">and circumcision <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131014000947/http://www.data.ccarnet.org/cgi-bin/respdisp.pl?file=102&year=narr" target="_blank">NARR 164-165</a></font></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font size="2"><b><u><a href="#top">Apostate</a></u></b></font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font size="2">circumcising son of TRR 64-65</font></p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> </table> <h1 id="footer" < h1> </h1> </body> </html><!-- FILE ARCHIVED ON 00:09:47 Oct 14, 2013 AND RETRIEVED FROM THE INTERNET ARCHIVE ON 22:55:13 Feb 18, 2025. 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