The Manchester Conference Volume

Edited by Leib Moscovitz

1: Michael J. BROYDE, A Proposed Tripartite Agreement to Solve Some of the Agunah Problems: A Solution Without Any Innovation 

2: Elliot N. DORFF, Jewish Law in the Conservative / Masorti Movement Since 1970 

3: Joseph FLEISHMAN, Legitimate Circumstances Allowing a Person to Sell his Daughter into Slavery 

4: Ilan FUCHS, 'Sephardic' Halakhah? The Attitude of Sephardic Decisors to Women's Torah Study: A Test Case 

5: Hillel GAMORAN, Should a Penalty for Late Payment be Forbidden as Interest? 

6:Israel Zvi GILAT, 'Conquest By War': Influences on Personal Status 

7: Aviad Yehiel HOLLANDER, The Relationship Between Halakhic Decisors and their Peers as a Determining Factor in the Acceptance of their Decisions A Step in Understanding Interpeer Effects in Halakhic Discourse 

8: Yehiel LASH, Resolving Legal Problems Using Lots 

9: Yehezkel MARGALIT, Freedom of Contract in Halakhic Family Law? A Comparison of the Babylonian Talmud and the Palestinian Talmud 

10: Laurence J. RABINOVICH, Rashi's Metrology: Money, Coins and Currency from Cologne, Constantinople and the Classical Past 

11: Steven H. RESNICOFF, Da'at Torah and Censorship 

12: Yitzchak Avi RONESS, Halakhah, Ideology and Interpretation: Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli on the Status of Defensive War 

13: Avinoam ROSENAK, Halakhah as Education: Philosophical and Halakhic Trends Within the Conservative Movement 

14: Abraham Ofir SHEMESH, Penalties for Canine Damages as Reflected in Jewish Law 

15: Yuval SINAI, Coercion of a Get as a Solution for the Problem of Agunah 

16: Daniel SINCLAIR, Feticide, Cannibalism, Nudity and Extra-Legal Sanctions: Elements of Natural Law in Three 19th 20th Century Halakhists 

17: Itamar WARHAFTIG, Torah and Democracy 

18: Avishalom WESTREICH, Umdena as a Ground for Marriage Annulment: Between Mistaken Transaction (Kiddushei Ta'ut) and Terminative Condition 

19: Shai WOZNER, On the Duty to Obey the Law in Halakhic Thought: Reflections on the Thesis of R. Shimon Shkop 

20: Michael WYGODA, The Legitimacy of Majority Decisions in Criminal Trials

ISBN 978-1-906731-04-5 (hardback), 978-1-906731-05-2 (paperback), 2010, Pp. viii + 370.