Volume XVI

Part I

 

Judah Galinsky, Ashkenazim in Sefard: The Rosh and the Tur on the Codification of Jewish Law

3

Ron S. Kleinman, Early Interpretations of the Bible and Talmud as a Reflection of Medieval Legal Realia

25

Yechezkel Lichtenshtein, Suicide as an Act of Atonement in Jewish Law

51

David Malkiel, The Burden of the Past in the Eighteenth Century: Authority, custom and Innovation in the Pahad Yitzhak 

93

 

 

Part II – Conference Papers

 

Hanina Ben-Menahem, Some Introductory Remarks on Genesis Rabbah and the Law

135

Charles Donahue, Jr., Genesis in Western Canon Law

155

Timothy D. Lytton, Due Process and Legal Authority in the Garden of Eden: Jurisprudence in Aggadic Midrash

185

 

 

Part III – Chronicle

 

Martin Edelman, A Tale of Two Cultures: Conspicuous Religious Symbols in the Public Schools of France and the United States

205

Daniel B. Sinclair, Jewish Law in the State of Israel

221

A Rabbinical Court Decision Regarding a Dispute Over the Fate of Pre-Embryos

 

Kofin al Midat Sdom: Abuse of rights in Jewish Law

 

A Definite Rabbinical Court Decision on the Status of Civil Marriage 

 

 

 

Part IV

 

Survey of Recent Literature

245

Style Sheet

253