The Fordham conference volume
By: edited by Daniel B. Sinclair and Larry Rabinovich
Series: Jewish Law Association studies -- 23
Publisher: Jewish Law Association
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chippenham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781906731236; 9781906731243
Subjects: Jewish law; Congresses
Notes: "The majority of the articles in this volume are based on papers presented at a Jewish Law Association conference held in February, 2010 at Fordham University Law School, New York"-- P. [vi].

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Intentionality and the "high hand" in the Pentateuch and the Dead Sea Scrolls  -- Aryeh Amihay; title: Maimonides on testimony in Agunah and divorce: epistemic implications  -- Michael Baris; title: Causation and responsibility in BK 26a-27a  -- Amy Birkan; title: The suspected adulteress and the Nazarite (Numbers 5:11-6:1-21)  -- Calum Carmichael; title: The principle of proportionality and its reflections in Israeli and Jewish law  -- Aviad Hacohen; title: Jewish law and state law: "transformative accomodation" and the JFS case in England  -- Bernard S. Jackson; title: Do the parties to a contract need actual knowledge of civil laws or commercial practices in order for these laws or practices to function as valid customs in Jewish law?  -- Ron S. Kleinman; title: By any other name? Kiddushin, same-sex relationships, and halakhic discourse in the liberal movements  -- Gail Labovitz; title: The Jewish community of Jerusalem according to seventeenth century Hebrew legal documents  -- Ruth Lamdan; title: "The Agreement for Mutual Respect" : the workings of a prenuptial agreement for the prevention of get-refusal as a halakhic autonomous tool  -- Rachel Levmore; title: Resolution of inheritance cases of Jews and Jewish converts to Christianity in consular courts in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century  -- Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky; title: Prolegomenon to a new study of rabbinic inheritance law, on the fiftieth anniversary of Reuven Yaron's Gifts in Contemplation of Death  -- Jonathan S. Milgram; title: Annulment of divorce in Israeli rabbinical courts  -- Amiḥai Radzyner; title: "Those who "play" with children delay the coming of mashiaḥ"  -- Paul Shrell-Fox; title: Autonomy in matters of life and death and the withdrawal of life-support in the responsa of R. Moses Feinstein  -- Daniel B. Sinclair; title: Agunah: the Manchester analysis: summary report.