Theory and Method in Legal History and Kabbalists
The Legal History Blog links to the articles from UC Irvine Law Review’s symposium on Theory and Method in Legal History. All of the articles can be found here. The following may be of special interest...
View ArticleNew Article-Violating Divine Law: Emergency Measures in Jewish Law
Posted at SSRN: Oren Gross, Violating Divine Law: Emergency Measures in Jewish Law Abstract: Judaism is a thoroughly legal culture. Structured around the concept of mitzvot (commandments), Jewish law...
View ArticleNew Article: Women and Synagogue Ritual as a Case Study
Forthcoming in the Cardozo Law Review: (hat tip) Roberta Rosenthal Kwall, “The Cultural Analysis Paradigm: Women and Synagogue Ritual as a Case Study.” (here) Abstract: This Article develops an...
View ArticleNew Article: Extraordinary Sources of Jewish Law
Steven H. Resnicoff has posted at SSRN a chapter from his book, Understanding Jewish Law. The chapter is titled “Extraordinary Sources of Jewish Law: the Example of Capital Punishment.” (here) Most...
View ArticleJournal from Yeshivat Maaleh Gilboah-2
Yeshivat Maale Gilboa has published a new volume of their journal VeZot LeYehuda. This issue addresses the status of women in Jewish law and the controversy around the marginalization of women (hadarat...
View ArticleNew Articles: Hair Covering for Single Women and the Female Body
In addition to the article by Gail Labovitz that I posted about here, the new issue of Nashim has two other interesting articles. (hat tip) Ilan Fuchs, Hair Covering for Single Women: A New Reading of...
View ArticleBook Review: The Birth of Conservative Judaism
From a review at H-Judaic of Michael Cohen’s The Birth of Conservative Judaism: Solomon Schechter’s Disciples and the Creation of an American Religious Movement. Cohen’s initial task is to overturn...
View ArticleOqimta: Studies in Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature
The inaugural issue of Oqimta is now available online. Oqimta is a digitized research journal devoted to all spheres and types of talmudic and rabbinical literature – in Jewish law and exegesis.
View ArticleOriginal Meaning of the Law
Jack Balkin has posted a new article at SSRN that discusses Jewish law, Must We Be Faithful to Original Meaning? This essay responds to essays written for a symposium on Living Originalism that will...
View ArticleNew Journals from Magnes Press-Spring, 2017
Some new journals from Magnes Press: Tarbitz 84, 3 Nili Samet – New Light on the Administrative Term bÄ“n bayît in Biblical and Rabbinical Sources Bezalel Bar-Kochva – The Religious Persecutions of...
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