Jewish Law Annual (Vol 9)

Part 1 Criminal law - husband and wife: aspects of physical violence against persons in Karo's "Shulhan Arukh", S.M. Passamaneck; postbiblical Jewish criminal law and theology, Peretz Segal; the role of punishment in Jewish criminal law - a chapter in Rabbinic penological thought, Aaron Kirschenbaum; physical and sexual violence by husbands as a reason for imposing a divorce in Jewish law, Mordechai Frishtik; profile of a jurist - Joseph Ibn Lev's rulings regarding "Agunot", Samuel Morell; and then there was one - an analysis and comparison of polygamy among Jews and Mormons, Russell K. Ryan. Part 2 Chronicle: contemporary "Halakhah", J. David Bleich; Jewish law in the state of Israel - custody and the role of women in their children's education, brain death, conscientious objection, registration of a convert - J. David Bleich.