Publications

Research and Books

Institute for Research in Jewish Law - Publications

Berachyahu Lifshitz, OBLIGATION AND ITS COLLATERALS – ACQUISITION OR SECURITY? Jerusalem 2018 (Hebrew).
STUDIES IN LAW AND HALAKHAH: MENACHEM ELON MEMORIAL VOLUME, edited by Arye Edrei, David Gliksberg, Aviad Hacohen, Berachyahu Lifshitz, Benjamin Porat, 2018 (Hebrew).
Shimshon Ettinger, Evidence in Jewish Law, Jerusalem 2011 (Hebrew)
Yuval Sinai, The Judge and the Judical Process in Jewish Law, Jerusalem 2010 (Hebrew)
Shmuel Shilo, Law, Morals and Equity in the Jewish Legal System, Jerusalem 2006 (Hebrew)
Hanina Ben-Menahem and Berachyahu Lifshitz (eds.), On Law and Equity in Maimonidean Jurisprudence, Jerusalem 2004 (Hebrew)
Hanina Ben-Menahem and Others (ed.), Controversy and Dialogue in the Halakhic Sources (3 vol.), Jerusalem 2002 (Hebrew)
Aharon Nachalon, the Kahal and Its Enactments in the Geonic Period, Jerusalem 2001 (Hebrew)
Shimshon Ettinger, Agency in Jewish Law in Comparison with Agency Law 1965, Jerusalem 1999 (Hebrew)
Berachyahu Lifshitz and Eliav Shochetman (eds.), Digest of the Responsa Literature of Germany France and Italy [Legal Digest], Jerusalem 1997 (Hebrew)
Menachem Elon (ed.), Digest of the Responsa Literature of Spain and North Africa [Index of Sources] vol.2, Jerusalem 1981-1987 (Hebrew)
Menachem Elon (ed.), Digest of the Responsa Literature of Spain and North Africa [Legal Digest], Jerusalem 1986 (Hebrew)
Menachem Elon (ed.), Digest of the Responsa Literature of Spain and North Africa [Historic Digest], Jerusalem 1981 (Hebrew)
Shnaton Ha-Mishpat Ha-Ivri: Annual Journal of the Institution for Research in Jewish Law, vol. 1-29
The Jewish Law Annual Volumes 20-21

Additional publication of the faculty members regarding Jewish Law

Berachyahu Lifshitz, THE HLACHA: BY GOD OR BY MAN Jerusalem 2019 (Hebrew).
Benjamin Porat, JUSTICE FOR THE POOR: THE PRINCIPLES OF WELFARE REGULATIONS FROM BIBLICAL LAW TO RABBINIC LITERATURE Jerusalem 2019 (Hebrew).
Eliav Shochetman, Civil Procedure in Rabbinical Courts, Jerusalem 2011 (Hebrew).
Berachyahu Lifshitz, Midrash Shmuel, Jerusalem 2009 (Hebrew).
Gideon Libson, Jewish and Islamic Law: A Comparative Study of Custom During the Geonic Period, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003.
Berachyahu Lifshitz, Law and Action, Jerusalem 2002 (Hebrew).
Hanina Ben-Menachem, Authority, Process and Method:‎Studies in Jewish Law, Australia 1998.
Berachyahu Lifshitz, Employee and Independent Contractor- Acquisition and Obligation in Contract, Jerusalem 1993 (Hebrew).
Hanina Ben-Menahem, Judicial Deviation in Talmudic Law: Governed by Men, Not by Rules, Boston
Berachyahu Lifshitz, Promise Obligation and Acquisition in Jewish Law, Jerusalem 1988 (Hebrew)
Eliav Shochetman, Illegal Act in Jewish Law, Jerusalem 1985 (Hebrew)
Eliav Shochetman, Responsa of Rabbi Meir Gavizon, Jerusalem 1985 (Hebrew)
Shmuel Shilo, Dina De-Malkhuta Dina, Jerusalem 1974 (Hebrew)

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The Jewish Law Annual

Since its inception, the JLA has published 19 volumes that are filled with seminal articles on an array of topics related to Jewish law. While for many years the JLA was published under the auspices of Boston University, it has recently been transferred to the Institute for the Research of Jewish Law, at the Faculty of Law, Hebrew University (it is published in English through the Routledge Publishing house). This is a very exciting milestone in the history of JLA, and presents a singular opportunity for further enhancing this publication, and assuring that it will serve as a first tier journal of Jewish law for years to come.

The JLA is a peer reviewed journal, which offers a unique platform for publishing articles in the field of Jewish law, broadly defined. In addition to publishing articles on Jewish law and Halakhah proper, the journal also extends to surrounding fields including Jewish philosophy, Jewish history, biblical studies, Talmudic research, as well as law and religion, and comparative law and jurisprudence.

The Jewish Law Annual Volumes 20-21

Editors: Dr. Benjamin Porat, Hebrew University; Prof, David Flatto, Hebrew University

Volume I

Part I – Mishneh Torah Studies

Introduction	3
Pierre Legendre, The Work and Method of Western Jurists in the XIIth Century.	6
Haim H. Cohn, Maimondean Theories of Codification	15
Shamma Friedman, The Organizational Pattern of the Mishneh Torah	37
Jacob I. Dienstag, The Relationship of Maimonides to his Predecessors: Part I, Midrashic Literature	42
Nachum L. Rabinovitch, Mishneh Torah-Code and Commentary	61
Lenn Evan Goodman, Maimonides' Philosophy of Law	72
Gerald G. Blindstein, Maimonides on 'Oral Law'.	108
Daniel Jeremy Silver, "Moses our Teacher was a King"	123
Jacob S. Levinger, Maimonides as Philosopher and Codifier.	133
Shmuel Shilo, Maimonides on "Dina de-malkhuta Dina (The Law of the State is Law)"	146
Bernard S. Jackson, Maimonides' Definitions of Tam and Mu'ad	168

Part II – Chronicle

Current Responsa, Decisions of Batei Din, and Rabbinical Literature	179
Impotence as Grounds for Divorce (J. David Bleich)	184
Tenure (J. David Bleich)	187
Sterilization (G.B Haliarad)	192
Euthanasia (G.B Halibard)	196
Jewish Law in the Judgements of the Supreme Court of the State of Israel (M. Bass, D. Cheshin)	200
Notes	213
The Race Relations Act, 1976 (Robert Merkin)	213
Refusal to Testify as a protected First Amendment Religious Right (Bernard J. Meislin)	219
Child Custody: Compelling a Jewish Upbrigning (Bernard J. Meislin)	221
Recognition of Bet Din Juridstiction (Bernard J. Meislin)	223
Civil Court Enforcement of Agreement to Obtain a "get" (Bernard J. Meislin)	228
The Status of a Foreign "Get" in Belgium (M.D.A. Freeman)	228
Leviticus XVIII, The Forbidden Degrees and the Law of Incest in Scotland (David Sellar)	229
Some Legal Aspects of the Entebbe Incident (Malcolm N. Shaw)	232
Survey of Recent Literature	243

Volume II

Part I – Codification and Restatement

M. Chigier, Codification of Jewish Law	3
Samuel N. Hoenig, Halakhot Gedolot: An Early Halakhic Code	45
S.M Passamaneck, A Companion Index to Responsa in Shulhan Arukh, Hoshen Mishpat	56
Nahum Rakover, The Department of Jewish Law of the Ministry of Justice in Israel	74
D.B Sinclair, Projects of the Institute for Research in Jewish Law, Jerusalem	82
Menachem Slae, The Responsa Project	84
Daniel Friedmann, Problems of Codification of Civil Law in Israel	88
John G. Fleming, The Restatement in Uncodified Mixed Jurisdictions	125
David Pearl, Codification in Islamic Law	162
M. D. A. Freeman, The Concept of Codification	168
Bernard S. Jackson, The Prospects for Codification or Restatement of Jewish Law: A Personal Summation	180

Part II – Chronicle

Current Responsa, Decisions of Bate Din, and Rabbinical Literature (J. David Bleich):
Status of the Deaf-Mute in Jewish Law	187
Hazardous Medical Procedures	194
Who is a Jew?	199
Jewish Law in the Judgments of the Supreme Court of the State of Israel (D.B. Sinclair):
Penetration in Rape Cases	204
Judicial Legislation	205
Prescription	206
Notes
Certainty of Trusts and the Definition of a Jew (England) (Malcolm Shaw)
Varia Americana (Bernard J Meislin)
Religious Garb	216
Divorce	217
Jewish Law and Dead Bodies	218
Sabbath Work: Violation of Employee's Civil Rights	220
Three Constitutional Issues Concerning Non-Catholics in Italy (Daniela Piattelli)	222
Religious Discrimination (E.E.C) (G.M Golding)	230
Recognition of Bet Din Jurisdiction in Kashrut Matter (France) (Robert D. Lehmann)	234
Survey of Recent Literature	237

Volume III

Part I – Unjust Enrichment

B.S Jackson, Introduction	3
Nahum Rakover, Unjust Enrichment	9
Shalom Albeck, Benefiting Another Without his Consent	33
Norman Solomon, Concepts of Zeh Neheneh in the Analytic School	49
A. Ehrman, Pretium Iustum and Laesio Enormis in Roman and Jewish Source	63
Appendix: Publication of Dr. A. Ehrman	71
Palimport Ltd. V. Ziba Geigi Ltd	74
The Israel Unjust Enrichment Law 1979	80
David Walters, The Restitution of Unjustly Acquired Benefits in English and Scots Law	84
Lenn Evan Goodman, Unjust Enrichment and Regulation	98

Part II – Chronicle

Current Responsa, Decisions of Bate Din, and Rabbinical Literature (1-4: J. David Bleich, 5: G.B. Halibard):
Neurological Criteria of Death and Time of Death Statutes	115
Privacy of Personal Correspondence	128
Professional Secrecy	131
Severance Pay: Hired Servant or Independent Contractor	137
Abortion in Jewish Law: A recent Judgment	139
Jewish Law in the State of Israel (D. B Sinclair):
The Supreme Court	154
Rabbinical Courts	161
The Fundamental of Law Bill, 5738-1978	165
Varia Americana (Bernard J. Meislin):
Jews in America: Contending for Recognition as a separate Race or Class	170
Rhode Island and the Jews (with Ecursions to Connecticut)	172
Sunday Closing Laws: Constitutionality	175
International Law (Malcolm N. Shaw):
The Egyptian-Israeli Treaty, 1979	180
International Law and the West Bank	187
Israel and the EEC: A New Legal Model for Trade and Cooperation (Joseph-Halevy H. Weiler)	196
Survey of Recent Literature	213
Appendix: Bibliography of Jewish Law Articles in Selected Law Journals	245

Volume IV

Part I – The Wife's Right to Divorce

B.S Jackson, Introduction	3
E. Lipinski, The Wife's Right to Divorce in the Light of an Ancient Near Eastern Tradition	9
Yair Zakovitch, The Woman's Rights in the Biblical Law of Divorce	28
Evald Lovestam, Divorce and Remarriage in the New Testament	47
Daniela Piattelli, The Marriage Contract and Bill of Divorce in Ancient Hebrew law	66
Alfredo Mordechai Rabello, Divorce of Jews in the Roman Empire	79
Mordechai A. Friedman, Divorce upon the wife's demand as reflected in Mnuscripts from the Cairo Geniza	103
Shmuel Shilo, Impotence as a ground for divorce (to the End of the Period of the Rishonim)	127
Mark Washofsky, The Recalcitrant Husband: The Problem of Definition	144
J. David Bleich, Modern-Day Agunot: A Proposed Remedy	167
David Novak, Annulment in Lieu of Divorce in Jewish Law	188
M. Chigier, Ruminations over the Agunah Problem	207
David Pearl, The Wife's Right to Divorce in Muslim Law	226
J. Duncan M. Derrett, Divorce at the Petition of the Wife at Hindu Law	232
Bernard J. Meislin, Pursuit of the Wife's Right to a "Get" in United States and Canadian Courts	250
Stern v. Stern, Judgment of Gerald S. Held, J.S.C.	272
M.D.A Freeman, Jews and the Law of Divorce in England	276

Part II

Survey of Recent Literature

291

Volume V

Part I – Jewish Law in Israel

M. Shava, The Nature and Scope of Jewish Law in Israel as Applied in the Civil Courts as Compared with its Application in the Rabbinical Courts	3
Meir Sichel, Air Pollution – Smoke and Odor Damage	25
M. Chigier, The Widow's Rights in Jewish and Israeli Law	44
D.B. Sinclair, Kupat Am Bank v. Hendeles	54

Part II – Chronicle

Current Responsa, Decisions of Bate Din and Rabbinical Literature (J.D. Bleich)
Indirect Coercion in Compelling a Get	65
Copyright	71
The Foundations of Law Act, 1980 and Its Implementation (N. Rakover)	80
Varia Americana (B.J. Meislin)
When Jewish Reference is Irrelevant and Prejudicial and when it is Relevant and Determinative	85
The Right of a Public Entity to Lease Airport Land to a Synagouge	87
Civil Treatment of a Rabbi	89
Blasphemy in English Criminal Law (R. v. Lemon) (G.H. Gordon, with a postscript by B.S. Jackson)	92
Industrial and Race Relations in England (Seide v. Gillette Industries Ltd.) – M. Jefferson	100

Part III

Survey of Recent Literature	109
Index of Reent Literature, with Author Index	151

Volume VI

Part I – The Philosophy of Jewish Law
Bernard S. Jackson, Secular Jurisprudence and the Philosophy of Jewish Law: A Commentary on Some Recent Literature	3
Emanuel Rackman, Secular Jurisprudence and Halakha	45
Jacob I. Dienstag, Natural Law in Maimonidean Thought and Scholarship (On Mishneh Torah, Kings VIII, II)	64
Oliver Leaman, Maimonides and Natural Law	78
Louis Jacobs, Tur, Preface to Hoshen Mishpat – Translation and Commentary	94
Rivka Schatz, Maharal's Conception of Law – Antithesis to Natural Law Theory	109
Norman Solomon, Anomaly and Theory in the Analytical School	126
Alan J. Yuter, Legal Positivism and Contemporary Halakhic Discourse	148
Hanina Ben Menachem, Is there Always One Uniquely Correct Answer to a Legal Question in the Talmud?	164

Part II – Chronicle
Current Responsa, Decisions of Bate Din and Rabbinical Literature: (J.D Bleich)
Judges Under Threat	179
Teachers's Unions	183
Jewish Law in the State of Israel (D.B Sinclair)
Indue Influence and Conflict of Interests	186
The Agnostic Witness and the Oath	188
Refund of Estate Duty	192
Rape of a Wife	194
Good Faith in Fulfilling Contractual Obligations	196
Illegal Contracts	199
"Beyond the Letter of the Law"	203
Necessity	206
Non-Financial Pressures on a Husband to Grant a "Get" (V. New)	210
Towards a New Regulation of the Relations Between the State and Italian Jewry (D. Piattelli)	216
German Legislation Against Denying the Holocaust (E. Klingenberg)	219

Part III
Survey of Recent Literature	225

Volume VII

Part I – The Philosophy of Jewish Law
J. David Bleich, Judaism and Natural Law	5
David Novak, Natural Law, Halakha and the Covenant	43
Elliot N. Dorff, The Covenant: The Transcendent Thrust in Jewish Law	68
Moshe Sokol, Some Tensions in the Jewish Attitude Toward the Taking of Human Life	97
Izhak Englard, The Interaction of Morality and Jewish Law	114
Abraham M. Fuss, Fact Skepticism in Jewish Law	125
Lawrence Kaplan, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik Philosophy of Halakha	139
Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Law in Reform Judaism: A Study of Solomon Freehof	198
Julius Stone, Leeways of Choice, Natural Law and Justice in Jewish Legal Ordering	210

Part II – Chronicle
Survey of Recent Literature	255

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

Volume IX

Part I – Criminal Law: Husband and Wife
S.M, Passamaneck, Aspects of Physical Violence Against Persons in Karo's Shulhan Arukh	5
Peretz Segal, Postbiblical Jewish Criminal Law and Theology	107
Aaron Kirchenbaum, The Role of Punishment in Jewish Criminal Law: A Chapter in Rabbinic Penological Thought	123
Mordechai Frishtik, Physical and Sexual Violence by Husbands as a Reason for Imposing a Divorce in Jewish Law	145
Samuel Morell, Profile of a Jurist: Joseph Ibn Lev's rulings Regarding Agunot	171
Russell K. Ryan, And Then There Was One: An Analysis and Comparison of Polygamy Among Jews and Mormons	205

Part II – Chronicle
Contemporary Halakha (J. David Bleich)
Checks	235
Jewish Law in the State of Israel (D.B. Sinclair)
Custody and the Role of Women in Their Children's Education	251
Brain Death	257
Conscientious Objection	262
Registration of a Convert	265

Part III
Survey of Recent Literature	271

Volume X

Part I – Parent and Child
D.B. Sinclair, Introduction	3
Joseph Flieshman, Offences Against Parents Punishable by Death: Towards a Socio-Legal Interpretation of Ex. 21:15	17
Alfredo Mordechai Rabello, Herod's Domestic Court? The Judgment of Death for Herod's Sons	39
Shlomo Nahmias, The Law and the Relationship between Parents and Children	57
Mordechai Frishtik, Physical Violence by Parents Against Their Children in Jewish History and Jewish Law	79
Moshe Zemer, Purifying Mamzerim	99
Eliav Shochetman, On the Nature of the Rules Governing Custody of Children in Jewish Law	115
Pinhas Shifman, The Welfare of the Child and Religious Considerations	159
Elimelech Westreich, A Father's Obligation to Maintain His Children in Talmudic Law	177
Ya'akov Meron, Parents and Children under Moslem Law	213
Antoine Garapon, From a Debate on Family Law to a Debate on Children's Rights	235

Part II – Chronicle
Martin Edelman, Limits Without Walls: Constricting Religious Freedom in the United States	247
D.B Sinclair, Jewish Law in the State of Israel
Messianic Jews and the Law of Return	259
Celebration and Registration of Marriages by Reform Rabbis	263
Defining Conversion to Judaism	267

Part III
Survey of Recent Literature	273

Volume XI

Part I
Stephen M. Passamaneck, The Rabbinic Law on Entry and Seizure	3
G.J Blidstein, Mine and Thine: the Problem of Priority in Civil Law ("Hashavat Avedah")	37
Yair Zakovitch, Ancient Variants and Interpretations of Some Laws of the Book of the Covenant as Reflected in Early Prophets' Narratives	57
Hillel Gamoran, Credit Transactions in Geonic Times in the Light of the Law Against Usury	63
Arthur Gross Shaefer, Contractual Intent: Is the Reasonable Person Standard Sufficient?	85
Mordechai Biser, Can an Observant Jew Practice Law? A Look at Some Halakhic Problems	101
Bernard S. Jackson, On the Nature of Analogical Argument in Early Jewish Law	137

Part II – Chronicle
Moshe Ish-Horowicz, The Case of Mrs. Paula Cohen and her Children	171
Debra Morris, The Jewish Will in English Law	195
Martin Edelman, Grumet v. Board of Education of Kiryas Joel: Towards a Lemon-aid Theory of the First Amendment's Religious Clauses	207
Daniel B. Sinclair, Jewish Law in the State of Israel
Appointment of Women to Religious Councils	221
Compromise Agreements	226
Judicial Bias	230
Pre-Trial Custody	232
Protection of Privacy	233
Consent to Medical Procedures	237
Prisoner's Right to Marital Relations	241

Part III
Book Review	251
Survey of Recent Literature	269

Volume XII

Part I – Medico-Legal Issues
David Shatz, Concepts of Autonomy in Jewish Medical Ethics	3
Elimelech Westreich, Medicine and Jewish Law in the Rabbinical Courts of Israel: Matters of Infertility	45
Elliot N. Dorff, Jewish Law and Lore: The Case of Organ Transplantation	65
Fred Rosner and Jacob Widroff, Physicians' Fees in Jewish Law	115
Pinhas Shifman, New Reproductive Technologies and Jewish Law	127
Avraham Steinberg, Informed Consent: Ethical and Halakhic Considerations	137
Yehoshua Ben Meir, Legal Parenthood and Genetic Parenthood in Jewish Law	153
Joop Al, Comparative Observations on Some Current Medico-Legal Issues in Dutch Law	167
Danuta Mendelson, The Concept of Medical Confidentiality in Australian and Jewish Law	217

Part II – Chronicle
Daniel B. Sinclair, Jewish Law in the State of Israel	253
Martin Edelman, Answering to a higher Authority: Kashrut and American Constitutional Law	267

Part III
Survey of Recent Literature	285

Volume XIII

Part I
Hanina Ben-Menahem, Maimonides' Fourteen Roots: Logical Structure and Conceptual Analysis	3
Michael J. Broyde and Michael Hecht, The Gentile and Returning Lost Property According to Jewish Law: A Theory of Reciprocity	31
Joseph Fleishman, Does the Law of Exodus 21:7-11 Permit a Father to Sell His Daughter to Be a Slave?	47
David Golinkin, A Bibliography of the Writings of Professor Boaz Cohen	65
Irwin H. Haut, Kad and Havit	87
Maidi S. Katz, z"l, The Married Woman and her Expense Account: A Study of the Marries Woman's Ownership and Use of Marital Property in Jewish Law	101
Berachyahu Lifshitz, Kad and Havit – More on the Role of the Stam	143
Avi Sagi, Natural Law and Halakha – A Critical Analysis	149
Dov Schwartz, Rabbi David Cohen, the Nazir, on Halakhic Exegesis	197
Ronnie Warburg, A Comparative Analysis of a Wife's Capacity to Pledge Her Husband's Credit for Domestic Necessities in Anglo-American Law and Jewish Law	213

Part II – Chronicle
Martin Edelman and Christopher McMahon, Lemon Peels: The Unraveling of a Constitutional Law Doctrine	241

Part III
Survey of Recent Literature	285
Style Sheet	287

Volume XIV

Part I
Hanina Ben Menahem, Doubt, Choice and Conviction: A Comparison of the Kim Li Doctrine and Probablism	3
Yitzchok A. Breitowitz, Halakhic Alternatives in IVF-Pregnancies: A Survey	29
Irwin H. Haut, z"l, Recovery for Fright, Shock and Emotional Distress under Jewish Law and Some Comparisons to the Common Law	121
David Henshke, Agency and Divorce Proceedings: On the Legal Methodology of Maimonides' Mishne Torah	163
Ephraim Nissan, Review Article: Some Recent Work on Logic, Mathematics and Halakha	259
Mair Raffeld, The Controversies of the Sages of Poland in the Sixteenth Century: A Chapter in the History of Jewish Law, Its General Rules and Methods of Decision-Making	271
Bernard Septimus, Kings, Coinage and Constitutionalism: Notes on a Responsum of Nahmanides	295
Michael Wygoda, On the Relationship Between the Capacity to Perform a Legal Task and the Capacity to Appoint an Agent to Perform	315

Part II – Chronicle
Martin Edelman, "Something there is that doesn't Love a Wall"	353
Daniel B. Sinclair, Jewish Law in Israel and Around the World	367
The Validity of a gift made with the intention that it take effect only upon the donor's death
Does Showing films featuring Orthodox Jews on Shabat infringe their Basic Rights?
When one Life Overrides Another: Seperating Conjoined Twins in English and Jewish Law

Part III
Survey of Recent Literature	389
Style Sheet	403

Volume XV

Part I
Jonathan Blass, Halakhic Altruism: A Critique of H. Dagan's "The Law of Unjust Enrichment: Between Judaism and Liberalism"	3
Shimon Ettinger, Can a Witness Serve as Judge?	13
Irwin H. Haut, z"l, Unjust Enrichment Revisited	41
Yehiel S. Kaplan, Enforcement of Divorce Judgments by Imprisonment: Principles of Jewish Law	57
Steven H. Resnicoff, Ends and Means in Jewish Law: Lying to Achieve Financial Justice	147
Yosef Tobi, Caro's Shulhan Arukh versus Maimonides' Mishne Torah in Yemen	189

Part II – Chronicle
Martin Edelman, The Eruv Wars	219
Daniel B. Sinclair, Jewish Law in the State of Israel	229
Treatment of the Terminally Ill
Jewish Heritage as a Source of Natural Law in Israeli Jurisprudence

Part III
Survey of recent Literature	245
Style Sheet	273

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

Volume XVII

Part I
Neria Guttel, It is Indeed in Heaven: The Uniqueness of the Laws of the Temple in the Halakhic Doctrine of Rabbi A.I Kook	3
David Henshke, The Number of Judges in Ancient Israel	27
Leib Moscovitz, "The Actions of a Minor are a Nullity"? Some Observations on the Legal Capacity of Minors in Rabbinic Law	63
Avinoam Rosenak, Prophecy and Halakha: Dialectic in the Meta-Halakhic Thought of Rabbi A.I Kook	121
Haim Shapira, The Schools of Hillel and Shamai	159
Yuval Sinai, Judicial Authority in Fraudulent-Claim Cases	209
Ronnie Warburg, Breach of a Promise to Marry	267

Part II
Daniel B. Sinclair, Jewish Law in the State of Israel	285
The Constutional Validity of the Sabath Observance Law	285
Terminally Ill Patient Law, 5766-2005	292

Part III
Book Reviews of Aviad Hacohen, The Tears of the Oppressed, An Examination of the Agunah Problem: Background and Halakhic Sources	303
Bernard S. Jackson	303
Avishalom Westreich	306
Style Sheet	317

Volume XVI

Part I
Shimon Ettinger, The Prohibition Against Consulting Two Authorities and the Nature of Halakhic Truth	3
Yehiel Kaplan, The Changing Profile of the Parent-Child Relationship in Jewish Law	21
Amihai Radzyner, Jewish Law in London: Between Two Societies	81
Benjamin Shmueli, Corporal Punishment of Children in Jewish Law	137
Ronal Warburg, Recovery for Infliction of Emotional Distress: Toward Relief for the Agunah	213
Michael Wygoda, The Agent who Breaches his Principal's Trust	265
Style Sheet	319

Volume XIX

Part I – English Section

Elisha Ancselovits, The Prosbul – A Legal Fiction?	3
Hanina Ben-Menahem, Shame Punishment in Jewish Legal Culture: Some Preliminary Observations	17
Dov I. Frimer, Refusal to Give a get: Tort Damages and the Recalcitrant Spouse in Contemporary Jewish Law	39
Bernard S. Jackson, Ruth's Conversion: Then and Now	53
Alfredo Mordechai Rabello, The End of Life in Jewish Law	63
Nahum Rakover, Man as a Synthesis of Body and Spirit: A Jewish Perspective	83
Chaim N. Saiman, Framing Jewish Law for the contemporary Law School	89
Daniel B. Sinclair, Normative Transparency in Jewish Law: Maimonides, R. Moses Sofer and R. Abraham Isaac Kook	119
Ronnie Warburg, The Tort of Negligent Misrepresentation in Investment Planning: A Comparative Analysis	141
Shai Wozner, On Conduct Rules and Decision Rules in Jewish Law	165

Part II – Hebrew Section

Berachyahu Lifshitz, Promises in Talmudic Law and Persian Law	183
Yuval Sinai, Maimonides on the "Two Witnesses" Requirement	207
Elimelech Westreich, The Official Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem (1841-1921), its Composition and Status	235
Style Sheet	263

Volume XX

Yitshak COHEN, Midrashic Exegesis and Legal Creativity in the Meshekh Hokhma	1
Israel Zvi GILAT , Exegetical Creativity in Interpreting the Biblical Laws on Capital Offenses	41
Amihai RADZYNER, Problematic Halakhic 'Creativity' in Israeli Rabbinical Court Rulings	103
Arye SCHREIBER, Privacy in Jewish Law: A Historical and Conceptual Analysis	179
Shalom C. SPIRA and Mark A. WAINBERG, HIV Vaccine Triage: Halakhic Considerations	235
Ronnie WARBURG, Contractual Consequences of Cohabitation in American Law and Jewish Law	279
Book Review: Steven F. FRIEDELL, Yuval Sinai, Application of Jewish Law in the Israeli Courts (Hebrew)	339
Style Sheet	347

Volume XXI

Hanina Ben-Menahem: Free Will and Coercion in the Talmud: A Preliminary Taxonomy Itzhak Brand: On suspicion: Justice, Ethics, and Society – between Rationalism and Pietism Warren Zev Harvey: Albo on Repentance and Coercion Yishai Kiel: Noahide Law and the Inclusiveness of Sexual Ethics: Between Roman Palestine and Sasanian Babylonia Itay Lipschits and Mordechai E. Schwarz: Aggregation of Estimates when Decision by Majority is not Possible Aaron Orenstein: "We Do Not Assess in the Case of Thief, nor that of the Robber, but [We Assess] in the Case of Damage" Book Review Ilan Fuchs: Yitzhak Cohen, The ‘Or Sameah’ – Halakhan and Jewish Law: R. Meir Simcha Hakohen's Writings on Maimonides' Code

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