[Crossposted to cahwyguy and weirdjews]
In the past, I haven’t posted a change log for the S.C.J. FAQ. It worked well posting it the last time (October 2006), so I’m going to try it again. Please, if you have corrections to these items, please let me know. In general, these changes arise either from comments mailed to me, or questions I get asked (and thus have to answer). Note also that if you are reading this FAQ from www.faqs.org, or any of the other sites that grab it from the newsgroup, you’re reading an out of date version. I’ve stopped posting the newsgroup version because of some generation problems I haven’t tracked down. Note: Many of the new answers are derived from answers given by Rabbi Micha Berger, who helps me with the FAQ. Micha has a blog that is syndicated on LiveJournal as aspaqlaria.
In any case, here is the current round of changes:
FAQ Updates:
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Updated Q 6.2: How can I
learn about Kashrut? Is there a “Kosher” FAQ? to provide an updated list of Kosher sources of food on the web. - Updated Q 6.6: I have
heard that Polish Orthodox Jews wait 6 hours between eating milchig and
fleishig and Dutch Orthodox Jews wait about an hour. Why? to add clarifications. -
Updated Q 8.33: What can be done if the wife refuses to accept the
get (divorce decree)? to fix the title. -
Added Q 8.41: What is the meaning of Megoreshet Megor?
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Added Q 11.6.17: Death and Burial: Is it appropriate to say Kaddish for non-Jews?
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Added Q 11.9.13: What is the significance of the number 9?
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Updated Q 19.5: Is “shvartze” offensive? Is “goyim” offensive? What about “nachriah”? to add the text on “nachriah”.
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Updated Q 19.6: What does “shiksa” and “shaygetz” mean? How offensive
are they? to add some clarifying text.
Reading List Updates:
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Updated all reading list pages to have the Amazon hover-box when you hover over an Amazon link.
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Updated General: Noachide: Added [Moz06]
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Updated: General: Sources. Added Ben Yehuda Press.
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Updated: General: Women and Judaism: Added [Pla05]
Updated: Mysticism: Sprituality: Added [Wei06]
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Updated Traditional Liturgy: Fixed a reference on [Sch84].
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Updated Traditional Practice: Added [Dav96], [Gri00], [Hay93]
