The Manchester 2008 conference volume
By: edited by Leib Moscovitz
Contributors: Moscovitz, Leib; Jackson, Bernard S.; Jewish Law Association
Series: Jewish Law Association studies -- 20; Jewish Law Association studies -- 20.
Publisher: Published and distributed by Deborah Charles Publications; On behalf of the Jewish Law Association
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Liverpool, UK]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9781906731045
Subjects: Jewish law; Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A proposed tripartite agreement to solve some of the agunah problems : a solution without any innovation / Michael J. Broyde; title: Jewish law in the Conservative/Masorti Movement since 1970 / Elliot N. Dorff; title: Legitimate circumstances allowing a person to sell his daughter into slavery / Joseph Fleishman; title: 'Sephardic' halakhah? : the attitude of Sephardic decisors to women's Torah study : a test case / Ilan Fuchs; title: Should a penalty for late payment be forbidden as interest? / Hillel Gamoran; title: 'Conquest by war' : influences on personal status / Israel Zvi Gilat; title: The relationship between halakhic decisors and their peers as a determining factor in the acceptance of their decisions : a step in understanding interpeer effects in halakhic discourse / Aviad Yehiel Hollander; title: Resolving legal problems using lots / Yehiel Lash; title: Freedom of contract in halakhic family law? : a comparison of the Babylonian Talmud and the Palestinian Talmud / Yehezkel Margalit; title: Rashi's metrology : money, coins and currency from Cologne, Constantinople and the classical past / Laurence J. Rabinovich; title: Da'at Torah and censorship / Steven H. Resnicoff; title: Halakhah, ideology and interpretation : Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli on the status of defensive war / Yitzchak Avi Roness; title: Halakhah as education : philosophical and halakhic trends within the Conservative Movement / Avinoam Rosenak; title: Penalties for canine damages as reflected in Jewish law / Abraham Ofir Shemesh; title: Coercion of a "get" as a solution for the problem of agunah / Yuval Sinai; title: Feticide, cannibalism, nudity and extra-legal sanctions : elements of natural law in three 19th-20th century halakhists / Daniel Sinclair; title: Torah and democracy / Itamar Warhaftig; title: "Umdena" as a ground for marriage annulment : between mistaken transaction ("kiddushei ta'ut") and terminative condition / Avishalom Westreich; title: On the duty to obey the law in halakhic thought : reflections on the thesis of R. Shimon Shkop / Shai Wozner; title: The legitimacy of majority decisions in criminal trials / Michael Wygoda.