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Volume VIII  | The Institute for Research in Jewish Law

Volume VIII 

Part I – Papers from Ramat Rahel

 

Jacob Bazak, The Meaning of the Term "Justice and Righteousness" in the Bible

5

Bernard S. Jackson, Jewish Law or Jewish Laws

15

Alan Yuter, Is Halakhah Really Law?

35

H. Joel Laks, Three Proposals Regarding the Relationship of Law and Morality in the Halakhah

53

Dennis Kurzon, Iconic Syntax in Rabbinical Codes

71

Stephen M. Passamaneck, Man Proposes Heaven Disposes

85

Lionel Kochan, Towards a Rabbinic Theory of Idolatry

99

Berachyahu Lifshitz, The Doctrine of Res Judaica

127

Eberhard Klingenberg, Judgment and Settlement in Court in Jewish and Comparative Legal History

135

Jean Jofen, The Jewish Law of Usury as Seen in Elizabethan Literature

147

Ya'akov Meron, Practical Application of the Foundations of Law Act

159

 

 

Part II – Chronicle

 

Varia Americana (Martin Edelman) 

 

Entangling Alliances: The Agunah Problem in the Light of Avitzur v. Avitzur 

193

Goldman v. Weinberger: Yarmulkes, The Supreme Court and the Free Exercise of Religion

210


Jews and Sunday Trading in Britain: The Private Control of Public Legislation (Geoffrey Alderman)

 

Public Legislation (Geoffrey Alderman)

221

Stunning before Slaughter in the EEC (G.M Golding)

238


Jewish Law in the State of Israel (D.B Sinclair) 

 

Good Faith in Administrative Decisions 

239

Legal Formalism and Individual Justice 

242

Social Legislation in the Federal Republic of Germany (Eberhard Klingenberg)

245

Towards Halakhic Unity?: The Bricto Proposals

247

Halakha with Humility (Sidney Brichto)

253

Comment on the Brichto Proposals (Louis Jacobs)

253

Halakha 0 Developmental and Pluralistic (Moshe Zemer)

259

Comments on Rabbi Dr. Brichto and Rabbi Dr. Jacobs (B. Berkovits)

269

A Response to the Recent Proposal of Rabbi Dr. Sidney Brichto (David Novak)

289