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

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