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Jewish Law
Association Studies I
The Touro
Conference Volume
Edited by B.
S. Jackson
Preface
1. Yaakov
Elman, Red Zadok Hakohen of Lublin on Prophecy in the Halakhic Process
2. David Fink,
The Corporate Status of Hekdesh in Early Sefardic Responsa
3. Steven F.
Friedell, Jewish Divorce in American Courts: The New York Experience
4. Joseph B.
Glaser, A New/Old Look at the Fifth Amendment: Some Help from the Past
5. Alexander
Guttmann, Participation of the Common People in Pharisaic and Rabbinic
Legislative Processes
6. G. Libson,
The Use of a Sacred Object in the Administration of a Judicial Oath
7. David
Novak, The Marital Status of Jews Married under Non-Jewish Auspices
8. S. M.
Passamaneck, The Use of Excessive Force by a Peace Officer: One Halakhic
Opinion
9. Daniela
Piattelli, Get and Get Shihrur
10. Nahum
Rakover, Coercion in Conjugal Relations
11. Sylvan Jay
Schaffer, Dina Demalkhuta Dina
13. Abraham
Terian, Some Stock Arguments for the Magnanimity of the Law in Hellenistic
Jewish Apologetics
Abstracts:
D.
Cohn-Sherbok, Problems of Establishing Criteria of Halakhah in Reform Judaism
Jean Jofen,
The Jewish Law of Usury as Seen in Elizabethan Literature
Shlomo Riskin,
The Moredet: A Study of the Rebellious Wife and her Status in Initiating
Divorce in Jewish Law
A. Yuter, The
Okhnai Oven and the Law: Talmudic Judaism's Response to Natural Law
ISBN:
0-89130-732-X, Pp. viii + 155, 1985.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies II
The Jerusalem
Conference Volume
Edited by B.
S. Jackson
1. Alexander
Rof_, Methodological Aspects of the Study of Biblical Law
2. L.E.
Goodman, The Biblical Laws of Diet and Sex
3. Lawrence H.
Schiffman, Reproof as a Requisite for Punishment in the Law of the Dead Sea Scrolls
4. Albert I.
Baumgarten, R. Yohanan and Resh Lakish on Anonymous Mishnayot
5. Dov. I.
Frimer, Israel, the Noahide Laws and Maimonides: Jewish-Gentile Legal Relations
in Maimonidean Thought
6. Y. Kahana, N.
Munk, and M. Slae, Estimating Bodily Damages According to Jewish Law: A
Comparative Legal Study
7. D.B.
Sinclair, Law and Mortality in Halakhic Bioethics
8. Y. Meron,
The Contemporary Encounter between Jewish and Moslem Law
Abstracts:
E. J.
Wiesenberg, Exogamy or Moloch Worship
S. M.
Passamaneck, Shulhan Arukh Hoshen Mishpat 189-240: The Uniformity and
Reliability of a Printed Text
M. Drori, The
Effect of Modern Techniques of Fertility on Jewish Family Law
Pp. viii +
200, 1986
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Jewish Law
Association Studies III
The Oxford
Conference Volume
Edited by A.
M. Fuss
1. Bernard S.
Jackson, Some Semiotic Questions for Biblical Law
2. Jacob
Bazak, Judicial Ethics in Jewish Law
3. Nahum
Rakover, Ethical Standards for Public Servants in Jewish Law
4. Daniela
Piattelli, The Fugitive Slave in the Legislation of the Ancient Near East and
as Elaborated in Rabbinic Jurisprudence
5. S. M.
Passamaneck, Notes on Violence and Combative Behavior in Jewish Law
6. J. David
Bleich, Artificial Heart Implantation
7. Dan Cohn-Sherbok,
Euthanasia and Reform Judaism
8. David
Novak, The Legal Question of the Investigation of Converts
9. Bernard J.
Meislin, The Role of the Ten Commandments in American Judicial Decisions
Pp. viii +
209, 1987
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Jewish Law
Association Studies IV
The Boston
Conference Volume
Edited by B.
S. Jackson
1. John W.
Welch, Chiasmus in Biblical Law: An Approach to the Structure of Legal Texts in
the Bible
2. Judith
Romney Wegner, Public Man, Private Woman: The Sexuality Factor and the Personal
Status of Women in Mishnaic Law
3. Joseph A.
Polak, Some Social and Societal Implications of the Laws of Witnesses
4. Arthur
Gross Schaefer, Reality of Consent
5. Eberhard
Klingenberg, The Roman Imperial Legislation Prohibiting Jews from Owning
Gentile Slaves
6. David
Novak, Maimonides and the Science of Law
7. S. M.
Passamaneck, The Berure Averot and the Administration of Justice in XIII and
XIV-Century Spain
8. Daniel B.
Sinclair, Conversion to Judaism in the Responsa of Post-Emancipation European Authorities
9. Nahum
Rakover, The "Law" and the Noahides
10. Aaron
Lichtenstein, Who Cares about the Seven Laws of Noah?: A Status Report
ISBN
1-55540-433-2, Pp. iv + 190, 1990.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies V
The Halakhic
Thought of R. Isaac Herzog
Edited by B.
S. Jackson
1. Chaim
Herzog, Foreword
2.
Shear-Yashuv Cohen, Chief Rabbi Herzog: Master Jurist and Gaon
3. Zorach
Warhaftig, Rabbi Herzog and Rabbinic Legislation
4. Dov. I.
Frimer, Jewish Law and Science in the Writings of R. Isaac Halevy Herzog
5. Ben Tzion
Greenberger, Rabbi Herzog's Proposals for Takkanot: In Matters of Inheritance
6. Ben Tzion
Greenberger, Rabbi Isaac Herzog's Theory of Torah and State
ISBN
1-55540-609-2, Pp. 125, 1991.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies VI
The Jerusalem
1990 Conference Volume
Edited by B.
S. Jackson and S. M. Passamaneck
1. Jacob
Bazak, Res Judicata and the Authority of Arbitrators and Law Courts to Amend or
to Change their Award in Jewish Law
2. Eliezer
Ben-Shlomo, The Duty to Save Life in Jewish Law and the Rulings of the Supreme
Court of Israel
3. Elchanan H.
Blumenthal, Notes on Some Psychological Aspects of Biblical and Rabbinic
Jurisprudence
4. Moshe
Chigier, Compensation for Loss of Profit Resulting from Breach of Contract in
Jewish Law
5. Elliot N.
Dorff, A Methodology for Jewish Medical Ethics
6. Mordechai
Halperin, The Legal Significance of the Decision of the Chief Rabbinate Council
on Heart Transplants in Israel
7. Bernard S.
Jackson, Practical Wisdom and Literary Artifice in the Covenant Code
8. Ya'akov
Meron, An Eye for an Eye: A Comment
9. S. M.
Passamaneck, Reflections on Reasonable Cause in Halakhah
10. Nahum
Rakover, Violation of the Law in Order to Preserve it: Gedolah Averah Lishmah
11. Judith
Romney Wegner, The Power to Render a Lenient Ruling: "Koah dehetera
adif"
12. Eliav
Shochetman, Attah Konanta Mesharim: God and King in the Theocratic
Jurisprudence of Ancient Israel
ISBN
1-55540-684-X, Pp. 178, 1992.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies VII
The Paris
Conference Volume
Edited by S.
M. Passamaneck and M. Finley
1. Michael J.
Broyde, Child Custody in Jewish Law: A Pure Analysis
2. Sandra
Burman and Sally Frankenthal, A Socio-Legal Study of Mamzerut in a South
African City
3. Shear
Yashuv Cohen, The Judiciary and Exegetical Approaches of Rashi and Maimonides
4. Michael
Corinaldi, Conversion of Minors
5. Arnold
Enker, Mistake of Law and Ignorance of Law in Jewish Criminal Law
6. Ze'ev W.
Falk, Religion and State: The Israeli Experience
7. Abraham M.
Fuss, A Question of "Comity" in Rabbinic Law
8. Bernard S.
Jackson, The Prophet and the Law in Early Judaism and the New Testament
9. Ya'akov
Meron, Rashi Today
10. David
Novak, Is There a Concept of Individual Rights in Jewish Law?
11. Stephen M.
Passamaneck, R. Judah b. Asher on Capital Penalties
12. Joseph A.
Polak, Forgiving the Germans: Paradigms and Dialectics from Halakhah
13. Nahum
Rakover, Self-Defence and "Necessity"
14. Harry
Reicher, The Interface of Halakhah and the Secular Legal System:The Australian Experience
15. Joseph
Rivlin, The Formularies in Jewish Documents: Ethics and Law
16. Elimelech
Westreich, Legal Reasoning in Jewish Law: The Case of the Melamed
17. Peter S.
Zaas, Paul and the Halakhah: Dietary Laws for Gentiles in I Corinthians
ISBN 1-55540-899-0,
Pp. viii + 245, 1994.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies VIII
The Jerusalem
1994 Conference Volume
Edited by E.A.
Goldman
1. Jacob
Bazak, The Legal Status of the Fetus in Jewish Halacha and in Israeli Law
2. Miriam Ben
Zeev, Did the Jews Enjoy a Priviledged Position in the Roman World?
3. Michael J.
Broyde, Assisting in a Violation of Noachide Law
4. Seymour J.
Cohen, The United States Constitution and the Jewish Community:The Recalcitrant
Husband and the Chained Woman (Agunah)
5. Shear-Yashuv
Cohen, The Halachic and Legal Aspects of Enforcement of Divorce in Israel (An
Abstract)
6. Michael
Corinaldi, Continuing Apostasy According to Halacha and the Law of Return
7. Peter J.
Haas, The Emergence of Rabbinic Legal Rhetoric: The Sheelot Utheshuvot Genre
8. Moshe
Ish-Horowicz, Righteousness (Tsedek) and its Significance in Judaism
9. Eberhard
Klingenberg, Justinian's Novellae Concerning the Jews
10. Stephen M.
Passamaneck, Halacha, Law Enforcement and the Modern World
11. Nahum
Rakover, The One vs. the Many in Life and Death Situations
12. Joseph
Rivlin, The Power of a Promissory Note is Greater then the Force of Legislation
13 Meir
Seidler, Isaac Breuer's Concept of Law
14 Daniel
Sinclair, Patients Self-Determination and Advance Directives
15 Hannah G.
Sprecher, Diabolus Ex-Machina: An Unusual Case of Yuhasin
16 David A.
Thomas, Instructive Comparisons Between Jewish and Anglo-American Land Law
17 Peter S.
Zaas, What Comes Out of a Person Is What Makes a Person impure: Jesus as
Sadducee
ISBN
0-7885-0155-0, Pp. viii + 226, 1996.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies IX
The London
1996 Conference Volume
Edited by E.A.
Goldman
1. Jacob
Bazak, People Usually Don't Watch Their Steps on the Roads
2. Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky,
Rabbinic Scholarship: The Development of Halakhah in Turkey, Greece and the
Balkans, 1750-1900
3. David M.
Cobin, Jews and the Medieval Slave Trade: The Law and its Historical Context
4. Elliot N.
Dorff, "Legislated Spiritual Disciplines:" Jacob Agus' Philosophy of
Jewish Law
5. Hillel
Gamoran, The Tosefta in Light of the Law Against Usury
6. Ben Tzion
Greenberger, Mental Capacity and the Deathbed Will
7. Moshe
Ish-Horowicz, The Problem of Iggun and its Solutions
8. Jonathan M.
Lewis, Insolvency in Jewish Law
9. David
Novak, Parental Rights in the Marriage of a Minor
10. Stephen M.
Passamaneck, Remarks on Pesquisa in Medieval Jewish Legal Procedure
11. Chaim
Poversky, The Law of the Pursuer and the Assassination of Prime Minister Rabin
12. Laurence
J. Rabinovich, Hidden Interest and Risk Management in Sixteenth-Century
Mediterranean Commerce
13. Nahum
Rakover, Preventing Apostasy by Violating the Sabbath
14. Yosef
Rivlin, Consecutive Gifts
15. Jeffrey I.
Roth, Inheriting the Crown in Jewish Law: The Question of Rabbinic Succession
16. Daniel B.
Sinclair, Genetics and Jewish Law
17. Hannah
Geldwerth-Sprecher & Stanley Sprecher, Refusing the Milk of Human Kindness
18. Peter
Zaas, The (Double) Vision of the Divine Picnic (Acts 10:1- 11:18): The History
of New Testament Kashrut III
ISBN
0-7885-0418-5, Pp. viii + 301, 1997.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies X
The Jerusalem
1998 Conference Volume
Edited by H.G.
Sprecher
1. Jacob
Bazak, Is A Consequence Considered "Intended," When It Is Foreseen As
Highly Probable?: A Comparative Study in Halakha and in Modern Criminal Law
2. Yehuda
Cohen, The Foundation of Law Act
3. Herbert
Druks, Freedom of Speech and Freedom of the Press and Henry Ford
4. Jonathan
Fisher, Prohibitions Against Fraudulent Conduct in Jewish Law
5. Aharon
Gaimani, The Rabbinical Court of Sa'da in Northern Yemen
6. Arthur
Gross Schaefer, Illegal Agreements: Does the Clean Hands Doctrine Really Make
Sense?
7. Rivka Katz,
Justice, Law and Morality
8. Ron
Klainman, Conflicts of Interest of Public Officials in Jewish Law:
Prohibitions, Scope and Limitations
9. Leah
Bornstein Makovetsky, The Va'ad Berurei Averot as a Judicial Body in Christian
Spain and the Ottoman Empire
10. Stephen M.
Passamaneck, Ancient Traces of Investigative Profiling
11. Chaim
Povarsky, The Land for Peace Treaty Between Israel and the Palestinians
12. Nahum
Rakover, Cloning: Usurping the Creator?
13. Steven H.
Resnicoff, Helping a Client Violate Jewish Law: A Jewish Lawyer's Dilemma
14. Yosef
Rivlin, Halitzah Stipulations in Engagement Contracts
15. Samuel
Wolfman, Legal Aspects of Epilepsy in the Halakha: In Torah Transgressions, in
Legal Competence Matters and Matrimonial Matters
16. Peter Zaas
& Mary Meany, Adhuc Rarissimus Emptor: A Final Stage of Early Christian
Kashrut
Abstracts
Moshe
Ish-Horowicz, Halakha Versus Aggadah (Jewish Law Versus Equity)
Osman Zumrut,
Influence of Mosaic Law on the Islamic Law
ISBN
1-586840-28-2, Pp. x + 282, 2000.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies XI
Law, Judicial
Policy and Jewish Identity in the State of Israel
Edited by
Daniel B. Sinclair
1. Daniel B.
Sinclair, Introduction
2. Amnon
Rubinstein, The State of Israel as a Jewish State
3. Z.
Warhaftig, Who is a Jew?
4. Beresford v.
Minister of the Interior
5. Pinhas
Shifman, On Conversions Not in Accordance with Halakhah
6. Asher Maoz,
Who is a Jew? Much Ado About Nothing
7. Miller v.
Minister of the Interior
8. Shas v.
Director of the Population Authority
9. Pessaro
(Goldstein) v. Minister of the Interior
10. Avraham
Shapira, Establishing the Jewish Identity of a New Immigrant for Marriage
Purposes
Index of
Sources
ISBN
1-586840-89-4, Pp. x + 240, 2000.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies XII
The Zutphen
Conference Volume
Edited by H.
Gamoran
1. Jacob
Bazak, Compromise vs. Adjudication in Jewish Law
2. J. David
Bleich, Constructive Agency in Religious Divorce: An Examination of Get Zikkuy
3. Sherman L.
Cohn, Teaching Jewish Law in a Secular American Law School
4. Jonathan
Fisher, Entrapment in Jewish Law
5. Joseph
Fleishman, A Father's Versus a Husband's Authority to Annul a Vow (Numbers
30:4-17)
6. Hillel
Gamoran, Lending - No, Investing - Yes: Development of the Iska Law from the
12th to the 15th Centuries
7. Moshe Ish-Horowicz,
Some Aspects of Theodicy: The Flood and the Holocaust
8. Bernard S.
Jackson, Moredet: Problems of History and Authority
9. Stephen M.
Passamaneck, The Shoter
10. Nahum
Rakover, Should Transgression Disqualify One from Public Office?
11. Steven H.
Resnicoff, Jewish Fraudulent Transfer Law
12. Yosef
Rivlin, Incarceration for Non-Payment of Debts
13. Elimelech
Westreich, The Rise and Decline of the Law of the Rebellious Wife in Medieval
Jewish Law
14. Samuel
Wolfman, Mental Disease in Divorce Law in the Responsa Literature and in
Rabbinical Court Rulings in Israel
ISBN
1-58684-180-7, 2002, Pp. x + 252.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies XIII
Jewish Family
Law in Israel
Edited by
M.D.A. Freeman
Michael
Freeman, Introduction
Pinhas Shifman,
Civil Marriage in Israel: The Case for Reform
Eliav
Shochetman, On the Introduction of Civil Marriage in the State of Israel
Ruth
Halperin-Kaddari, Expressions of Legal Pluralism in Israel:The Interaction
Between the High Court of Justice and Rabbinical Courts in Family Matters and
Beyond
Michael
Corinaldi, The Remedy of Temporary Separation between Husband and Wife, as
Reflected in the Decisions of Rabbinical Courts
Menashe Shawa,
Maintenance of Minor Children in Jewish and Positive Law
She'ar-Yashuv
Cohen, A Violent and Recalcitrant Husband's Obligation to Pay Ketubah and
Maintenance
Index of
Sources
ISBN
1-58684-183-1, 2002, Pp. ix + 373
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Jewish Law
Association Studies XIV
The Jerusalem
2002 Conference Volume
Edited by
Hillel Gamoran
1. Aaron
Kirschenbaum, Teaching and Researching Jewish Law in Israeli Law Schools
(Presidential Address)
2. Jacob
Bazak, The Element of Intention in the Performance of Mitsvot Compared to the
Element of Intention in Current Criminal Law
3. Leah
Bornstein-Makovetsky, The Halakhic Decisions of the Sages of Aleppo During the
16th-18th Centuries
4. David
Elgavish, Extradition of Fugitives in International Relations in the Ancient
Near East
5. Joseph
Fleishman, Exodus 22:15-16 and Deuteronomy 22:28-29 - Seduction and Rape? Or
Elopement and Abduction Marriage?
6. Aharon
Gaimani, Between the Aden and Sana Rabbinical Courts: On a Nineteenth Century
Inheritance Dispute
7. Hillel
Gamoran, How the Rishonim Met the Clash Between Credit Sales and the Law
Against Usury
8. Michael
Hellinger, The Emerging Definition of the Poverty Line in Jewish Law
9. Bernard S.
Jackson, Some Reflections on Family Law in the Papyri
10. Ya'akov
Meron, Dower in Moslem and Jewish Law
11. Joseph A. Polak,
Some Aspects of the Appearance of Impropriety (Mar'it Ayin) in Jewish Law
12. Laurence
J. Rabinovich, Utilizing Business Records to Prove a Claim: Empiricism,
Rationalism and the Rules of Evidence
13. Nahum
Rakover, Privacy: Injury Caused by Unwanted Observation (Hezek Re'iyah)
14. Yosef
Rivlin, The Evolution of the Clause for Fines in Jewish Legal Contracts
15. Elimelech
Westreich, A Western View of Eastern Marriage: Comments on the Nusrat Shaulian
v Sultana Shaulian Decision
ISBN
1-58684-099-1, 2003, Pp. vi + 282
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Jewish Law
Association Studies XV
Jewish
Biomedical Law
Edited by
Daniel B. Sinclair
INTRODUCTION
(DANIEL B. SINCLAIR)
SECTION A:
ABORTION
Feticide: The
Position of the Jewish Tradition Compared with the Positions of Other Cultures
(MOSHE WEINFELD)
The Modern
Halakhic Debate Concerning the Abortion of a Fetus Suffering from Tay Sachs
Disease: Extracts from the Responsa Penal Law, 5737-1977, s.316
SECTION B:
ASSISTED REPRODUCTION
The Legal
Status of a Child Born by Artificial Reproductive Techniques Involving Sperm
Donation or Egg Donation (MICHAEL CORINALDI)
D. Nahmani v.
R. Nahmani et al.
Agreements
Relating to the Carrying of Embryos (Approval of the Agreement and the Status
of the Offspring) Law, 5756-1996, s.2
SECTION C:
CLONING
Cloning of
Humans: Scientific, Ethical and Jewish Aspects (ABRAHAM STEINBERG)
Prohibition on
Genetic Intervention (Cloning and Germ Line Genetic Therapy) Law, 5759-1999
(amended 5764-2004)
SECTION D:
COERCIVE LIFE-SAVING MEDICAL THERAPY AND PATIENT AUTONOMY
Yosef Kurtam
v. State of Israel
Patient's
Rights Law, 1996, s.15(2)
The Obligation
to Heal and Patient Autonomy in Jewish Law, with Some
Comparative
Reference to the Common Law (DANIEL B. SINCLAIR)
SECTION E: THE
DEFINITION OF DEATH AND CARDIAC TRANSPLANTS
Belker v.
State of Israel
Determining
the Time of Death (A. STEINBERG)
SECTION F: THE
TREATMENT OF THE TERMINALLY ILL
Yael Shefer (a
Minor) by her Mother and Natural Guardian, Talila Shefer v. State of Israel
The Report and
Draft Law of the Committee Concerning the Terminally Ill Patient (Steinberg
Committee), 2002 (DANIEL B. SINCLAIR)
SECTION G:
BONE MARROW DONATION
Donation of
Bone Marrow: Halakhic Aspects (Rav NAFTALI BAR ILAN)
SECTION H: THE
SALE OF ORGANS
The Sale of
Organs for Transplantation (Rabbi I.M. LAU)
ISBN
1-58684-261-7, 2005, Pp. x + 305
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Jewish Law
Association Studies XVI
The Boston
2004 Conference Volume
Edited by
Elliot Dorff
1. Michael J.
Broyde, Military Ethics in Jewish Law
2. Jonathan
Burnside, Rethinking 'Sexual' offences in Biblical Law: the Literary Structure
of Leviticus 20
3. Elliot N.
Dorff, Theories of Jewish Law and Movement Borders
4. David
Elgavish, Ya'el, Wife of Heber the Kenite, in Biblical Perspective
5. Bernard S.
Jackson, Human Law and Divine Justice in the Methodological Maze of the
Mishpatim
6. Ron S.
Kleinman, Delivery of Keys (Traditio Clavium) as a Mode of Acquisition: Between
Jewish and Roman Law
7. Leonard R.
Levy, Alfasi, Sugyan and the Authority of the Stam
8. Laurence J.
Rabinovich, The Judge As Educator?: Codes, Commentaries and Court Decisions
9. Steven H.
Resnicoff, Keeping One's Word in Commercial and Non-Commercial Contexts
10. Yosef
Rivlin, Moda'ah and Bittul Moda'ah (Notification and its Cancellation) in
Jewish Law
11. Avinoam
Rosenak, Ritual, Halakhah and Culture: On the Indispensability of Norms
12. Haim
Shapira, The Law of the Pursuer (Rodef) and the Source of Self-Defense: An
Analysis of the Talmudic Sources
13. Itamar
Warhaftig, Contract Laws: Religious Law or Social Law?
14. Michael
Wygoda, Organ Selling, Jewish Law and Israeli Law
15. Peter S.
Zaas, Spiritus Ex Machina. Jewish Legal Aspects of the Matthean Birth Narrative
ISBN
978-0-9528938-5-1 (hardback), 978-0-9528938-6-8 (paperback), 2007, Pp. vi +
302.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies XVII
Studies in
Mediaeval Halakhah in honor of Stephen M. Passamaneck
Edited by
Alyssa Gray and Bernard Jackson
1. Dvora E.
WEISBERG, Dr Stephen Passamaneck: An Appreciation
2. Judith
BASKIN, Male Piety, Female Bodies: Men, Women, and Ritual Immersion in Medieval
Ashkenaz
3. Leah
BORNSTEIN-MAKOVETSKY, The Attitude of Jewish Scholars to Jewish Conversion to
Islam and Christianity during the Last Century of the Ottoman Empire
4. Michael
CHERNICK, Polysemous Sugyot as a Source of Rishonic Debates about Normative
Halakhah
5. David
ELLENSON, The Talmudic Principle, If One Come Forth to Slay You, Forestall by
Slaying Him in Israeli Public Policy: A Responsum by Rabbi Hayyim David Halevi
6. Yaakov
ELMAN, The Socioeconomics of Babylonian Heresy
7. Abraham M.
FUSS, Duress and Moda'ah in the Law of Sales
8. Aharon
GAIMANI, Rabbi Yitsak Alfasi in the literature of Yemenite Jews
9. Hillel
GAMORAN, From R. Judah bar Ilai to the Heter Iska
10. Alyssa
GRAY, Married Women and Tsedaqah in Medieval Jewish Law: Gender and the Discourse
of Legal Obligation
11. Bernard S.
JACKSON, Medieval Halakhah - Reflections on Periodization and the Problem of
the Agunah
12. Aaron D.
PANKEN, Revealing Rabbinic Revision: Meikara as a Marker for Legal Change in
Talmud Bavli
13. Yosef RIVLIN,
Ethics and Law in Maimonides' Rulings
14. Mark
WASHOFSKY, On the Absence of Method in Jewish Bioethics: Rabbi Yehezkel
Landau on Autopsy
15. Elimelech
WESTREICH, Historical Landmarks in the Tradition of Moroccan Jewish Family Law:
The Case of Levirate Marriages
ISBN
978-0-9528938-7-5 (hardback), 978-0-9528938-8-2 (paperback), 2007, Pp. vi +
322.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies XVIII
The Bar-Ilan
Conference Volume
Edited by
Joseph Fleishman
1. Tsevi E.
TAL, Hebrew Law in the Courts of Israel
2. Jacob
BAZAK, An Unsuccessful Attempt to Commit a Crime
3. Leah
BORNSTEIN-MAKOVETSKY, Blood Money and Retaliation in Criminal Law in the
Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries as Found in Jewish
Society
4. David
ELGAVISH, Justification for War in the Ancient Near East and the Bible
5. Joseph
FLEISHMAN, The Husband's Sin and Punishment of Deuteronomy 22:18-19 in early
Jewish Law
6. Israel Zvi
GILAT, The Renewed Insights of the UN Convention on Children's Rights: The
Renaissance of Ancient Jewish Law
7. Aharon
KAMPINSKY, The Rise and Fall of the 'War Get' Suggestion in the Early Days of
the IDF
8. Aaron
KIRSCHENBAUM, Jewish Penology: Unanswered Questions
9. Madeline
KOCHEN, 'It Was Not For Naught That They Called It Hekdesh': Divine Ownership
and the Medieval Charitable Foundation
10. Gail
LABOVITZ, Assent to Ascent: Halakhic Negotiations of Exile, Marriage, and
Gender
11
Yehezkel MARGALIT, On The Dispositive Foundations of the Obligation of Spousal
Conjugal Relations in Jewish Law
12. Steven H.
RESNICOFF, May Plaintiffs Enjoy a Double Recovery? A Comparison of American and
Jewish Law
13. Yosef
RIVLIN, Contracts and Legislation in Jewish Law: Interrelations
14. Abraham
Ofir SHEMESH, Food Deceptions and Falsification in the Ancient Food Industry
and their Legal Ramifications According to Rabbinical Literature
15. Yair
SHIBER, Disqualification of Witnesses because of Kinship - its Evolution and
Effect on Validity of Marriages
16. Yuval
SINAI, Arbitration as an Ideal Judicial Procedure
17. Michael
WYGODA, Floating Charge on an Individual's AssetsMarriages
ISBN
978-1-906731-00-7 (hardback), 978-1-906731-01-4 (paperback), 2008, Pp. vi +
303.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies XIX
Jewish
Commercial Law. Essays in Memory of George Webber
Edited by
Jonathan Cohen
1: Jonathan
COHEN, Introduction
2: Itshak
BRAND, Business in Intangibles - From Philosophy to Law (translated from
Shenaton ha-Mishpat Ha-Ivri XXI (2000), 71-122).
3: Ben-Zion
ELIASH, Non-Monetary Loans - Tradition and Innovation in the Geonic Period
(translated from DinŽ Israel 18 (1995-96), 205-253)
4: Ron
KLEINMAN, The Power of Monetary Customs to Override the Law: On the Innovative
Approach of Rabbi Isaac and Alfasi his Influence on Medieval Spanish Rabbis
5: Yehoshua
LIEBERMANN, Market Failure and Judicial: Failure A Jewish Law Perspective
(translated from DinŽ Israel 18 (1995-96), 145-173).
6: Berachyahu
LIFSHITZ, Collecting from the Guarantor where Collecting from the Debtor is
Impossible (translated from Shenaton Ha-Mishpat Ha-Ivri XVI-XVII (1991),
243-288
7: Joseph
RIVLIN, On Economics and Halakhah - The Mortgage and the Resale
(translated from DinŽ Israel 20-21 (2001), 353-395)
8: Elimelech
WESTREICH, Elements of Negotiability in Talmudic and Gaonic Times
ISBN
978-1-906731-02-1 (hardback), 978-1-906731-03-8 (paperback), 2009, Pp. viii +
275.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies XX
The Manchester
Conference Volume
Edited by Leib
Moscovitz
1: Michael J.
BROYDE, A Proposed Tripartite Agreement to Solve Some of the Agunah
Problems: A Solution Without Any Innovation
2: Elliot N.
DORFF, Jewish Law in the Conservative / Masorti Movement Since 1970
3: Joseph
FLEISHMAN, Legitimate Circumstances Allowing a Person to Sell his Daughter
into Slavery
4: Ilan FUCHS,
'Sephardic' Halakhah? The Attitude of Sephardic Decisors to Women's Torah
Study: A Test Case
5: Hillel
GAMORAN, Should a Penalty for Late Payment be Forbidden as Interest?
6:Israel Zvi
GILAT, 'Conquest By War': Influences on Personal Status
7: Aviad
Yehiel HOLLANDER, The Relationship Between Halakhic Decisors and their
Peers as a Determining Factor in the Acceptance of their Decisions A Step
in Understanding Interpeer Effects in Halakhic Discourse
8: Yehiel
LASH, Resolving Legal Problems Using Lots
9: Yehezkel
MARGALIT, Freedom of Contract in Halakhic Family Law? A Comparison
of the Babylonian Talmud and the Palestinian Talmud
10: Laurence
J. RABINOVICH, Rashi's Metrology: Money, Coins and Currency from Cologne,
Constantinople and the Classical Past
11: Steven H.
RESNICOFF, Da'at Torah and Censorship
12: Yitzchak
Avi RONESS, Halakhah, Ideology and Interpretation: Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli on
the Status of Defensive War
13: Avinoam
ROSENAK, Halakhah as Education: Philosophical and Halakhic Trends Within
the Conservative Movement
14: Abraham
Ofir SHEMESH, Penalties for Canine Damages as Reflected in Jewish Law
15: Yuval
SINAI, Coercion of a Get as a Solution for the Problem of Agunah
16: Daniel
SINCLAIR, Feticide, Cannibalism, Nudity and Extra-Legal Sanctions:
Elements of Natural Law in Three 19th 20th Century Halakhists
17: Itamar
WARHAFTIG, Torah and Democracy
18: Avishalom
WESTREICH, Umdena as a Ground for Marriage Annulment: Between Mistaken
Transaction (Kiddushei Ta'ut) and Terminative Condition
19: Shai
WOZNER, On the Duty to Obey the Law in Halakhic Thought: Reflections on
the Thesis of R. Shimon Shkop
20: Michael
WYGODA, The Legitimacy of Majority Decisions in Criminal Trials
ISBN
978-1-906731-04-5 (hardback), 978-1-906731-05-2 (paperback), 2010, Pp. viii +
370.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies XXI
Israel as a
Jewish and Democratic State
Edited by
Asher Maoz
The State of
Israel was established as a Jewish and democratic State. It has further been
defined as such in its Basic Laws. This definition aroused much controversy in
the political as well as the legal and rabbinical communities as to whether a
state could be both Jewish and democratic. Opinions expressed ranged from the
statement that a Jewish State could be anything but democratic to the
declaration that a Jewish State could be nothing but democratic. There is
extensive literature on this issue in Hebrew, by leading Israeli judges, Rabbis
and jurists. It is the aim of this book to expose the English reader to this controversy,
which involves a central issue in state-religion relations and should therefore
be of interest to legal scholars, political and social scientists, and
researchers in religions.
1: Asher Maoz,
Introduction
(downloadable)
2: Aharon
Barak, The Values of the State of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State
3: Haim Cohn,
z'l, The Values of a Jewish and Democratic State. Studies on the Basic Law:
Human Dignity and Liberty
4: Menachem
Elon, Constitution by Legislation: The Values of a Jewish and Democratic State
in the light of Basic Law: Human Dignity and Personal Freedom
5: Ruth
Gavison, Can Israel be both a Jewish and Democratic State?
6: Asher Maoz,
The Values of the State of Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State
7: Ariel
Rosen-Zvi, z'l, "A Jewish and Democratic State": Spiritual
Parenthood, Alienation and Symbiosis — Can we Square the Circle?
8: Aviad
Hacohen, From 'Juden Shtetl' (Jewish Village) to 'Juden Staat'
(Jewish State): Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State: Theory and
Practice
9: Aharon
Lichtenstein, Interaction between Judaism and Democracy?
ISBN
978-1-906731-09-0 (hardback), 978-1-906731-10-6 (paperback), 2010, Pp. viii + 321.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies XXII
ÔWisdom and
UnderstandingÕ. Studies in Jewish Law in Honour of Bernard S. Jackson
Edited by Leib
Moscovitz and Yosef Rivlin
Introduction
1:
Michael BROYDE, Women Receiving Aliyot?: A Short Halakhic Analysis
2:
Jonathan BURNSIDE and Michael NAUGHTON, Semiotics, Miscarriages of Justice and
the Trials of Jesus
3:
Elliot DORFF, Biblical Law and Rabbinic Precedent in Hard Cases: The Example of
Homosexual Relations in Conservative/Masorti Halakhah
4:
Joseph FLEISHMAN, The Accused Bride in Deuteronomy 22:13-21 in the Light of
Early Jewish Law
5:
Hillel GAMORAN, The Prozbul: Accommodation to Reality
6:
Israel Zvi GILAT, Are the Halakhic Commandments of "Father to Son" a
Numerus Clausus?
7: Aaron
KIRSCHENBAUM, The Role of Discretion in Applying Punishment in Jewish Judicial
Procedure
8: Donna
C. LITMAN and Steven H. RESNICOFF, Jewish and American Inheritance Law:
Commonalities, Clashes, and Estate Planning Consequences
9: Leib
MOSCOVITZ, "We May Not Infer Civil Law from Ritual Law": Some
Observations on the Internal Unity of Rabbinic Law
10:
Stephen M. PASSAMANECK, Retracing Traces of Rabbinical Maritime Law and Custom
11:
Yosef RIVLIN, Some New Suggestions for Reforming the Israeli Law of Succession
in the Light of Jewish Law: a Short Halakhic Analysis
12:
Avinoam ROSENAK, Theory and Praxis in Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady: The Tanya
and Shulhan 'Arukh HaRav
13:
Daniel SINCLAIR, Fictitious Retractions and False Attributions: The Balance
Between Truth and Falsehood in Halakhic Discourse
14:
Elimelekh WESTREICH, Jewish Judicial Autonomy in Nineteenth Century Jerusalem:
Background, Jurisdiction, Structure
15: Zvi
ZOHAR, Teleological Decision-Making in Halakhah: Empirical Examples and General
Principles
ISBN
978-1-906731-17-5 (hardback), 978-1-906731-18-2 (paperback), 2012, Pp. x + 362.
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Jewish Law
Association Studies XXIII
The
Fordham Conference Volume
Edited by Daniel B. Sinclair and Larry
Rabinovich
EditorsÕ
Introduction
1: Aryeh AMIHAY, Intentionality and the ÔHigh HandÕ in the
Pentateuch and the Dead Sea Scrolls
2: Michael BARIS, Maimonides on Testimony in
Agunah and Divorce: Epistemic Implications
3: Amy BIRKAN,
Mlw(l d(wm Md): Causation and Responsibility
in BK 26a-27a
4: Calum CARMICHAEL: The Suspected
Adulteress and the Nazarite (Numbers 5:11-6:1-21)
5: Aviad HACOHEN, The Principle of
Proportionality and its Reflections in Israeli and Jewish Law
6: Bernard S. JACKSON, Jewish Law and State
Law: ÒTransformative AccommodationÓ and the JFS case in England
7: Ron S. KLEINMAN, Do the Parties to a Contract
Need Actual Knowledge of Civil Laws or Commercial Practices in Order for these
Laws or Practices to Function as Valid Customs in Jewish Law?
8: Gail LABOVITZ, By Any
Other Name? Kiddushin,
Same-Sex Relationships, and Halakhic Discourse in the Liberal Movements
9: Ruth LAMDAN, The Jewish Community
of Jerusalem according to Seventeenth Century Hebrew Legal Documents
10: Rachel LEVMORE, ÒThe Agreement for Mutual RespectÓ: The Workings of a Prenuptial
Agreement for the Prevention of Get-Refusal as a Halakhic Autonomous Tool
11: Leah Bornstein-MAKOVETSKY, Resolution of Inheritance
Cases of Jews and Jewish Converts to Christianity in Consular Courts in the
Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century
12: Jonathan S. MILGRAM, Prolegomenon to a New Study of Rabbinic Inheritance Law, on
the Fiftieth Anniversary of Reuven YaronÕs Gifts in Contemplation of Death
13: Amixai RADZYNER, Annulment
of Divorce in Israeli Rabbinical Courts
14: Paul SHRELL-FOX, ÒThose who ÔPlayÕ with Children Delay the Coming of MashiaxÓ
15: Daniel B. SINCLAIR,
Autonomy in
Matters of Life and Death and the Withdrawal of Life-Support in the Responsa of
R. Moses Feinstein
16: Agunah: The Manchester Analysis.
Summary Report
ISBN
978-1-906731-23-6 (hardback), 978-1-906731-24-3 (paperback), 2012, Pp. viii +
323.