SIMCHA FISHBANE Ph.D. in Social Anthropology of
Religion at Concordia University, Montreal Canada, is Executive
Assistant to the President of Touro College and Professor of Jewish
Studies. He has published extensively on Jewish subjects texts
and their meaning. His publications include Deviancy in Early
Rabbinic Judaism and The Boldness of A Halakhist, An Analysis
of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein, The Arukh Hashulhan.