Jewish Law
Teaching Jewish Law in American Law Schools - Part II: An Annotated Syllabus
... the Jewish legal system and Jewish legal theory that parallel those studied and applied in the American legal system, demonstrating broad methodological ...between Jewish law and American ...
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Contraceptive considerations for breastfeeding women within Jewish law
... traditional Jewish law, halakha, have additional considerations in deciding the order of preference of contraceptive methods due to religious concerns including the use of barrier and spermicidal ...of ...
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The Attorney-Client Relationship: A Jewish Law Perspective
... Assuming that a lawyer's representation of a client would violate lifnei iver, are there any circumstances under which Jewish law would nonetheless allow the lawyer to hel[r] ...
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Changing Motherhood Paradigms: Jewish Law, Civil Law, and Society
... The third (conceptual) stage is the use of different criteria for defining the mother of a child in different legal realms, while recognizing each of these criteria as legitimate and valid. Some decisors claim that the ...
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Medical Malpractice in Jewish Law: Some Parallels to External Norms and Practices
... Jewish law, as a religious legal system, has some special ...formal law, known as the din Torah, either reserving to the organized Jewish communities the power to impose greater liability as ...
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Finding Her Own Voice: Cynthia Ozick's Female Protagonists And Orthodox Jewish Law
... Orthodox Jewish law, however, alleges that a wife should only support her husband’s ...a Jewish wife, she is still the foundation that helps stabilize these men’s ...
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Ancient Answers to Modern Questions: Death, Dying, and Organ Transplants - A Jewish Law Perspective
... Extrapolation from these concepts, and utilization of other Talmudic sources, permits a definition of death based on the absence of brain function in a manner consistent with current me[r] ...
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A Look at American Legal Practice through a Perspective of Jewish Law, Ethics, and Tradition: A Conceptual Overview
... 7 7 Ultimately, then, from a perspective of American legal practice, Jewish legal and ethical teachings present a model for a consideration of the way religious tradit[r] ...
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Price Controls in Jewish Law
... the Jewish community will always heed Levine rather than Epstein in its exercise of its absolute ...Murphy's Law is in order: if power – even democratic power – can be abused, it will ...
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The Effect of Diaspora on Modern Jewish Belief
... accept Jewish law in the Torah, but unlike Conservative Jews, Orthodox Jews do not believe that the law itself can actually ...of Jewish law and reject the idea of Jews as a chosen ...
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"Leveiya": The process of the Jewish Funeral Service
... to Jewish law, the deceased must be buried within twenty-four hours following his or her ...major Jewish holiday it will be postponed until the second day of the ...because Jewish law ...
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The Ottoman Jewish Family: General Characteristics
... needs. Jewish law forbids beating her, allows her to demand a divorce, and in the case of divorce or the death of her husband ensures her the sum inscribed in her marriage contract ...
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THE EFFECT OF JEWISH DIVORCE LAW ON FAMILY LAW LITIGATION
... The Ketubah is deemed to be at least 2000 years old, and is one of the most ancient documents still in use today. While not all Ketubot (plural of Ketubah) are identical, it came into use historically as a remedy for the ...
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Introduction: autobiographical comics by Jewish women
... of Jewish sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld and Sarah had a stall advertising the about-to-open “Graphic Details” ...by Jewish women – and also that many of them, including Sarah Leavitt, Ariel Schrag and Ilana ...
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Dublin Jewish demography a century ago
... the Jewish Board of Guardians and the ritual washing of hands before ...lower Jewish mortality: racial and biological differences; religious practices; personal cleanliness and housekeeping; socio-economic ...
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Positioning Jewish Character in World Narration
... the Jewish families, where they practice their rituals and daily activities freely and independently as a sect has its religion, culture and ...the Jewish workers to do some works and live in peace ...
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Manchester Jewish Housing Association : A study of the housing needs of the Jewish communities in Greater Manchester : Final report
... be Jewish-only. While there did appear to be a preference for Jewish-only provision, there were a number of people who welcomed the idea of a mixed scheme as long as cultural practices were ...
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The refrain and resistance: Music and becoming-Jewish
... History is always written, according to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, from the point of view, and in the name of, a sedentary State apparatus, quelling all alternative paths. Based on this charge, this article seeks ...
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The Jewish 'ghetto': formation and spatial structure
... 1]. Jewish resettlement in England is normally dated from 1656, the date from which Jews were able to practice their religion openly (although prior to that date Marranos - enforced converts from Spanish ...
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Chess in Jewish history and Hebrew literature.
... See The Legacy of Islam, edited by Sir Thomas Arnold and Alfred Guillaume (Oxford, 1931), pp. 100-2 (p. 100 quoted). Further information is from D.M.Dunlop, History o f the Jewish K hazars [1954], paperback ed. ...
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