Bet Din
Isaacs v. Beth Hamedash Society 1 Hilt 469 (Com.P1. 1857) aff’d 19 N.Y. 584 (1859) Sunday being most convenient time for Jews to appear for Din Torah, award is not void if decision is not…
Beards
Geller v. Secretary of Defense 423 F. Supp. 16 (D. D.C. 1976) After wearing beard for seven years without problem, USAF Chaplain told to remove it. Held, in these unique circumstances Chaplain could keep beard…
Autopsy
Lott v. State & Tumminelli v State 32 Misc 2d 296, 225 NYS2d 434 (1962) Hospital liable for: i) mistagging two deceased, a Catholic and a Jew; (ii)for causing autopsy to be performed on Jew;…
Want Social Justice? Try Vouchers
In recent years, an ongoing debate in the American Jewish community has been taking place over the issue of publicly funded school vouchers. The debate has many strands, they include whether such programs are constitutional,…
A Proposal for P’sharah: A Jewish Mediation/Arbitration Service
Himmelfarb and Goldberg had been friends and sole shareholders in a large, successful real estate development company for ten years. As the regional economy where the company was based changed, the company began experiencing a…
Pruzbul
Sources And Reasons In the Torah, we find the command to observe a Sabbatical Year, the shemita (Devarim 15:1-11). There are two aspects of this mitzvah: the land is not to be worked and all…
Jewish Law and Copyright
In our highly advanced technological age, the duplication of original works of authorship has become almost effortless. While at one time, manuscripts or books had to be copied laboriously by hand, it is now possible…
Inflation Issues in Jewish Law
Introduction In recent times, inflation has been widely recognized as a menacing social problem. While the rate of inflation in 1982 has considerably abated, its scourge wrenches recent memory. For the years 1980 and 1981,…
Corporate Democracy And The Frum Investor: Halakhot Of Investing In The Stock Market
Rav Asher Meir is a fellow at Machon Keter, a think-tank which studies halakhic aspects of economic activity. Aside from his Talmudic studies, he completed an advanced economic degree at MIT. I. THE NATURE OF…
Jewish Divorce and the Role of Beit Din
(NOTE: This article originally appeared in the Winter 5760/1999 issue of Jewish Action, a magazine publication of the Orthodox Union, and is reprinted herein with permission.) One of the major roles of a beit din…