The Fordham Conference Volume

Edited by Daniel B. Sinclair and Larry Rabinovich

Editors� Introduction

1: Aryeh AMIHAY, Intentionality and the 'High Hand' in the Pentateuch and the Dead Sea Scrolls

2: Michael BARIS, Maimonides on Testimony in Agunah and Divorce: Epistemic Implications

3: Amy BIRKAN, Mlw(l d(wm Md): Causation and Responsibility in BK 26a-27a

4: Calum CARMICHAEL: The Suspected Adulteress and the Nazarite (Numbers 5:11-6:1-21)

5: Aviad HACOHEN, The Principle of Proportionality and its Reflections in Israeli and Jewish Law

6: Bernard S. JACKSON, Jewish Law and State Law: "Transformative Accommodation" and the JFS Case in England

7: Ron S. KLEINMAN, 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?

8: Gail LABOVITZ, By Any Other Name? Kiddushin, Same-Sex Relationships, and Halakhic Discourse in the Liberal Movements

9: Ruth LAMDAN, The Jewish Community of Jerusalem according to Seventeenth Century Hebrew Legal Documents

10: Rachel LEVMORE, "The Agreement for Mutual Respect": The Workings of a Prenuptial Agreement for the Prevention of Get-Refusal as a Halakhic Autonomous Tool

11: Leah Bornstein-MAKOVETSKY, Resolution of Inheritance Cases of Jews and Jewish Converts to Christianity in Consular Courts in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century

12: Jonathan S. MILGRAM, Prolegomenon to a New Study of Rabbinic Inheritance Law, on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Reuven Yaron's Gifts in Contemplation of Death

13: Amihai RADZYNER, Annulment of Divorce in Israeli Rabbinical Courts

14: Paul SHRELL-FOX, "Those who 'Play' with Children Delay the Coming of Mashiah"

15: Daniel B. SINCLAIR, Autonomy in Matters of Life and Death and the Withdrawal of Life-Support in the Responsa of R. Moses Feinstein

16: Agunah: The Manchester Analysis. Summary Report

ISBN 978-1-906731-23-6 (hardback), 978-1-906731-24-3 (paperback), 2012, Pp. viii + 323.