"Wisdom and Understanding". Studies in Jewish Law in Honour of Bernard S. Jackson

Edited by Leib Moscovitz and Yosef Rivlin

Introduction

1: Michael BROYDE, Women Receiving Aliyot?:  A Short Halakhic Analysis 

2: Jonathan BURNSIDE and Michael NAUGHTON, Semiotics, Miscarriages of Justice and the Trials of Jesus

3: Elliot DORFF, Biblical Law and Rabbinic Precedent in Hard Cases: The Example of Homosexual Relations in Conservative/Masorti Halakhah

4: Joseph FLEISHMAN, The Accused Bride in Deuteronomy 22:13-21 in the Light of Early Jewish Law

5: Hillel GAMORAN, The Prozbul: Accommodation to Reality

6: Israel Zvi GILAT, Are the Halakhic Commandments of "Father to Son" a Numerus Clausus?

7: Aaron KIRSCHENBAUM, The Role of Discretion in Applying Punishment in Jewish Judicial Procedure

8: Donna C. LITMAN and Steven H. RESNICOFF, Jewish and American Inheritance Law: Commonalities, Clashes, and Estate Planning Consequences

9: Leib MOSCOVITZ, "We May Not Infer Civil Law from Ritual Law": Some Observations on the Internal Unity of Rabbinic Law

10: Stephen M. PASSAMANECK, Retracing Traces of Rabbinical Maritime Law and Custom

11: Yosef RIVLIN, Some New Suggestions for Reforming the Israeli Law of Succession in the Light of Jewish Law: a Short Halakhic Analysis 

12: Avinoam ROSENAK, Theory and Praxis in Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liady: The Tanya and Shulhan 'Arukh HaRav

13: Daniel SINCLAIR, Fictitious Retractions and False Attributions: The Balance Between Truth and Falsehood in Halakhic Discourse

14: Elimelekh WESTREICH, Jewish Judicial Autonomy in Nineteenth Century Jerusalem: Background, Jurisdiction, Structure

15: Zvi ZOHAR, Teleological Decision-Making in Halakhah: Empirical Examples and General Principles

ISBN 978-1-906731-17-5 (hardback), 978-1-906731-18-2 (paperback), 2012, Pp. x + 362.