606 index
Neoplatonism 259, 328–9, 334, 346,
349, 352, 365
and Christian appropriation of
kabbalah 352
Nero 107
Netherlands 363, 364, 371–2, 435, 438
Calvinist Holland 371
and the Holocaust 437
Netivot 529
Neturei Karta 508–9
New Israelite Temple Association of
Hamburg 461–2
New London Synagogue 497
New Moon 518
New Testament 29, 123, 124, 181–2,
190, 207–8, 289 see also
specific books
exorcism accounts 207–8
and Marcion 196–7
New World and the Americas 362,
363–4, 435, 529
discovery 360
Sephardi settlement 362
USA see United States of America
New York 436, 488, 492, 499
Adass Jeshurun synagogue 485
Beth Simchat Torah 520–21
Free Synagogue 475
Jewish Defense League 507
Jewish Institute of Religion 475
Jewish Theological Seminary of
America 491, 494–5, 496
Jewish Week 515–16
Lubavitch settlement, New York
State 510
Stonewall riots 520
Temple Emanu-El 466
Williamsburg Satmar community
504
Nicanor of Alexandria 48
Nicholas III, Pope 347
Nicholas of Lyre 318
Nicolaus of Damascus 116
Nieto, David 412
Nineveh 76
Nissenbaum, Isaac 490
Nissim Gerondi 386–7
Nissim ben Yaakov ben Nissim ibn
Shahin 313
Nittai the Arbelite 160, 161
Noah 85
North Africa 238, 311, 527
Numbers 26, 53, 68, 84, 266, 533
Sifre on 28, 274oaths 203–4 see also vows
Octavian see Augustus
oil, olive 20, 29, 53, 95, 133, 167,
170, 200, 254, 456
Olympic Games 103
Omar II 232
omer 125, 280
Onan 82
Onias 58–9, 93
Oppenheimer, Samuel 364
oral tradition xxvi, 160–61, 301, 303,
305
and the Karaites 301, 303, 305,
312
oral Torah 305, 312, 337, 422
ordination (semikhah) 375
of gay and lesbian Jews 477
of women 496, 517, 518
organ transplants 450
Orpheus 255–6, 295
Orthodox Christians 361
orthodox Judaism
Agudat Israel 485–6, 505, 508
Conservative Judaism see Con-
servative Judaism
in England 479
haredim see haredim
Hirsch’s ‘neo-orthodoxy’ 480–85
in Israel 489–90
modern orthodoxy and counter-
reform 480–90
Reconstructionism 494–6, 517, 520
in USA 487–8
Oshaiah Rabbah 180
Osman Baba 409