The Netanya conference volume
By: edited by Yuval Sinai
Contributors: Jewish Law Association
Series: Jewish law association studies -- 24; Jewish Law Association studies -- 24.
Publisher: Jewish Law Association
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Emerson, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781906731250; 9781906731267
Subjects: Jewish law; Congresses
Notes: "The majority of the articles in this volume are based on papers presented at the Jewish Law Association conference held on June 21-24, 2010 at Netanya Academic College Law School, Netanya, Israel"--Editor's introduction.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Norms of doubt: a Maimonidean perspective on the threshold of doubt  -- Michael Baris; title: Understanding rights in context: freedom of contract or freedom from contract? A comparison of the various Jewish and American traditions  -- Michael J. Broyde, -- Steven S. Weiner; title: Right of first refusal and the free-market economy - are they compatible?  -- Amichai Cohen; title: The rabbinic decisors and the halakhic material in the Or Sameaḥ  -- Yitsḥak Cohen; title: A case on the border between Jewish law and morality: violent and defamatory video games  -- Elliot N. Dorff; title: The role of Jewish law in a secular state  -- Steven F. Friedell; title: Fertility technologies and illegitimacy (mamzerut)  -- Yossi Green; title: Post-punishment penalization in Jewish law and lore: punishment added to criminal convictions  -- Aaron Kirschenbaum; title: The attitudes of halakhic decisors to the legal validity of casting lots  -- Yeḥiel Lash; title: The "eyni yode`a" judge according to Rambam's view  -- Itay Lipschutz; title: Damage valuation of reparable damage - between Jewish law and Israeli law  -- Aaron Orenstein; title: Public and private archives of the Jewish communities living under Roman administration  -- Daniela Piattelli; title: Interpretation, political ideology and the re-establishment of Jewish laws of state: R. Shaul Yisraeli on securing the release of prisoners of war  -- Yitzchak Avi Roness; title: Theory and praxis: talmud torah as a case study  -- Avinoam Rosenak; title: Compulsion in the commandment of honoring one's father and mother and its relation to a child's duty to support his parents  -- Ya`akov Shapira; title: The "French disease" as a cause for enforcing divorce in rabbinical discussions in recent centuries  -- Abraham Ofir Shemesh; title: The ENEM case - religious rights and public exams  -- Ari Marcelo Solon; title: The State's liability in torts and the exception of "discretion" in Jewish law -- Michael Wygoda.