The Touro Conference Volume

Edited by B. S. Jackson

Preface

1. Yaakov Elman, Red Zadok Hakohen of Lublin on Prophecy in the Halakhic Process

2. David Fink, The Corporate Status of Hekdesh in Early Sefardic Responsa

3. Steven F. Friedell, Jewish Divorce in American Courts: The New York Experience

4. Joseph B. Glaser, A New/Old Look at the Fifth Amendment: Some Help from the Past

5. Alexander Guttmann, Participation of the Common People in Pharisaic and Rabbinic Legislative Processes

6. G. Libson, The Use of a Sacred Object in the Administration of a Judicial Oath 

7. David Novak, The Marital Status of Jews Married under Non-Jewish Auspices

8. S. M. Passamaneck, The Use of Excessive Force by a Peace Officer: One Halakhic Opinion

9. Daniela Piattelli, Get and Get Shihrur

10. Nahum Rakover, Coercion in Conjugal Relations 

11. Sylvan Jay Schaffer, Dina Demalkhuta Dina

13. Abraham Terian, Some Stock Arguments for the Magnanimity of the Law in Hellenistic Jewish Apologetics

Abstracts:

D. Cohn-Sherbok, Problems of Establishing Criteria of Halakhah in Reform Judaism

Jean Jofen, The Jewish Law of Usury as Seen in Elizabethan Literature

Shlomo Riskin, The Moredet: A Study of the Rebellious Wife and her Status in Initiating Divorce in Jewish Law

A. Yuter, The Okhnai Oven and the Law: Talmudic Judaism's Response to Natural Law

ISBN: 0-89130-732-X, Pp. viii + 155, 1985.