Mishpetei shalom
Subtitle: a jubilee volume in honor of Rabbi Shalom (Saul) Berman : halakha, mishpat Ivri, the interface between halakha and legal political theory, as well as halakhic discussions presented through the prism of western democratic principles and thought
By: edited by Yamin Levy
Publisher: KTAV
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jersey City, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9781602801479
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Rabbi Kook and Rabbi Uziel / Marc D. Angel; title: The moving of a Sefer Torah / Saul J. Berman; title: Lifnim mishurat hadin / Saul J. Berman; title: Jewish law and international law /  Michael J. Broyde; title: Why should a slave want freedom? / Shalom Carmy; title: The divine honor roll / Mark Dratch; title: History, halakhah, and revelation / Yaakov Elman; title: Who will be a Jew? / Seth Farber; title: Extra-legal punishments in medieval Jewish courts / Zev Farber; title: The impact of biblical thinking on criminology / George P. Fletcher; title: Kabalat ol mitzvot / Jeffrey Fox; title: Minority opinions and their role In Horaah / Nathaniel Helfgot; title: Are prophets above the law? / Aryeh Klapper; title: Orthodoxy, modern pluralism, and the Christian other / Eugene Korn; title: Changes in the world of Jewish divorce / Rachel Levmore; title: Maimonides on authority, obedience, and the pursuit of reason / Yamin Levy; title: Tzaʻar baʻalei chaim / Dov Linzer; title: Judaism and democracy / Shlomo Riskin; title: On a seeming disconnect between halakhah and theology / David Shatz; title: Religion and state / Suzanne Last Stone; title: Women and sifrei Torah / Avraham Weiss; title: The two contemporary varieties of Orthodox Judaism / Alan J. Yuter; title: What happened to the Ten Lost Tribes? / Dov S. Zakheim.