[Avodah] hypocrisy in halacha

[Eli Turkel]

In an article published a dozen years ago, Marc B. Shapiro, "Rabbi
David Zevi Hoffmann on Torah and Wissenschaft," Torah u-Madda Journal
6 (1995-1996): 129-137,
available at YUTorah.org, noted that Rabbiner Hoffmann, who would
later begin publishing his collection of she'elot u-teshuvot in 1926,
authored an 1885 volume that is apologetic in nature, "an entire work
in defense of the Jewish attitude towards Nochrim" (130), and that

   "[t]his is a very interesting book and deserves careful study...
What needs to be determined is whether Hoffmann's misrepresentations
are intentional or simply reflect his honestly held belief that Jewish sources
 have a strongly favorable view of X and its adherents" (136n5).


-- 
Eli Turkel