Jewish Law Annual (Vol 10)

Part 1 Parent and child: offences against parents punishable by death - towards a socio-legal interpretation of Ex. 21:15, 17, Joseph Fleishman; Herod's domestic court? the judgment of death for Herod's sons, Alfred Mordechai Rabello; the law and the relationship between parents and children, Shlomo Nahmias; physical violence by parents against their children in Jewish history and Jewish law, Mordechai Frishtik; purifying Mamzerin, Moshe Zemer; on the nature of the rules governing custody of children in Jewish law, Eliav Shochetman; the welfare of the child and religious considerations, Pinhas Shifman; a father's obligation to maintain his children in Talmudic law, Elimelech Westreich; parents and children under Islamic law, Ys'akov Meron; from a debate on family law to a debate on children's rights, Antoine Garapon. Part 2 Chronicle: Limits without walls - constrictiong religious freedom in the United States, Martin Edelman; Jewish law in the state of Israel - messianic Jews and the Law of Return, cleebration and registration of marriages by reform rabbis, defining conversion to Judaism, D.B. Sinclair.