The Netanya Conference Volume

Edited by Yuval Sinai

Editor's Introduction

1: Michael BARIS, Norms of Doubt: A Maimonidean Perspective on the Threshold of Doubt (1-10)

2: Michael J. BROYDE and Steven S. WEINER, Understanding Rights in Context: Freedom of Contract or Freedom From Contract? A Comparison of the Various Jewish and American Traditions (11-27)

3: Amichai COHEN, Right of First Refusal and the Free-Market Economy – Are They Compatible? (28-47)

4: Yitshak COHEN, The Rabbinic Decisors and the Halakhic Material in the Or Sameah (48-74)

5: Elliot N. DORFF, A Case On the Border Between Jewish Law and Morality: Violent and Defamatory Video Games (75-99)

6: Steven F. FRIEDELL, The Role of Jewish Law in a Secular State (100-110)

7: Yossi GREEN, Fertility Technologies and Illegitimacy (Mamzerut) (111-133)

8: Aaron KIRSCHENBAUM, Post-Punishment Penalization in Jewish Law and Lore: Punishment Added to Criminal Convictions (134-141)

9: Yehiel LASH, The Attitudes of Halakhic Decisors to the Legal Validity of Casting Lots (142-158)

10: Itay LIPSCHUTZ, The "Eyni Yode'a" Judge According to Rambam's View (159-175)

11: Aaron ORENSTEIN, Damage Valuation of Reparable Damage – Between Jewish Law and Israeli Law (176-196)

12: Daniela PIATTELLI, Public and Private Archives of the Jewish Communities Living Under Roman Administration (197-205)

13: Yitzchak Avi RONESS, Interpretation, Political Ideology and the Re-Establishment of Jewish Laws of State: R. Shaul Yisraeli On Securing the Release of Prisoners of War (206-220)

14: Avinoam ROSENAK, Theory and Praxis: Talmud Torah as a Case Study (221-246)

15: Ya'akov SHAPIRA, Compulsion in the Commandment of Honoring One's Father and Mother and its Relation to a Child's Duty to Support his Parents (247-261)

16: Abraham Ofir SHEMESH, The "French Disease" as a Cause for Enforcing Divorce in Rabbinical Discussions in Recent Centuries (262-277)

17: Ari Marcelo SOLON, The Enem Case – Religious Rights and Public Exams (278-283)

18: Michael WYGODA, The State's Liability in Torts (284-302)

ISBN 978-1-906731-25-0 (hardback), 978-1-906731-26-7 (paperback), 2013, Pp. viii + 302.