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Yehoshua Pfeffer
![State, Power, Religious Control: How COVID-19 Raises New Political Questions: An Exchange](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Shaine-slider-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
State, Power, Religious Control: How COVID-19 Raises New Political Questions: An Exchange
Between rabbinic rulings and public policy: a response from Daniel Goldman and Yossi Shain and a rejoinder from Yehoshua Pfeffer.
![Taking Responsibility: A Rejoinder](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Shaine-slider-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
Taking Responsibility: A Rejoinder
Between rabbinic rulings and public policy: a response from Daniel Goldman and Yossi Shain and a rejoinder from Yehoshua Pfeffer.
![Holiness and Public Policy: The Haredi Response to COVID-19](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Pfeffer-slider-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
Holiness and Public Policy: The Haredi Response to COVID-19
Bnei Brak, where yeshivot and synagogues were kept open far too long, accounted for 16 percent of all Israeli COVID-19 cases and a comparable percentage of fatalities despite comprising only 2 percent of the Israeli population. We haredim must radically rethink our approach to public policy—and holiness.
![Why the Kotel Must Be Governed: A Response](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Jerusalem_2009_4158914956-1024x576-c-default.jpg)
Why the Kotel Must Be Governed: A Response
Just as soldiers in the IDF have no choice but to eat kosher food, the Jewish state makes decisions as to the nature of its consecrated sites: Jewish decisions.