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Tradition (journal)

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “quarterly orthodox academic journal published by the rabbinical council of america in association with yeshiva”. Today it says “quarterly orthodox jewish peer-reviewed academic journal published by the rabbinical council of america”.
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Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought is a quarterly Orthodox Jewish peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Rabbinical Council of America . It covers a range of topics including philosophy and theology , history, law, and ethics . It was established in 1958 by the founding editor-in-chief Norman Lamm . He was succeeded by Walter Wurzburger (1962-1988), Emanuel Feldman (1988-2001), Michael Shmidman (2001-2004), and Shalom Carmy (2004-2019). Jeffrey Saks was named the journal's sixth editor in January 2019.

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “quarterly orthodox academic journal published by the rabbinical council of america in association with yeshiva”. Today it says “quarterly orthodox jewish peer-reviewed academic journal published by the rabbinical council of america”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

quarterly orthodox academic journal published by the rabbinical council of america in association with yeshiva

Now

quarterly orthodox jewish peer-reviewed academic journal published by the rabbinical council of america

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