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Public and Private Rulings in Jewish Law (Halakhah): Flexibility, Concealment, and Feminist Jurisprudence

Journal of Law, Religion and State, 2014
Jewish law includes two parallel systems of halakhic ruling: public and private. There is often a significant gap between what halakhic authorities proclaim publicly and what they are willing to say, on the same topic, in private. The ability to deviate from the original ruling in order to solve concrete problems answers one of the ...
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Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics (review)

Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2002
by Markus Bockmuehl. Edinburgh: TT Leiden: Brill, 1999], pp. 155-198), and I must say its gist is stunning: James (with the Tosefta and a substantial body of opinion cited by Bockmuehl) considered Antioch as part of the Land of Israel, so that "issues of purity would matter more literally there than in the Diaspora". …
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Be fruitful and multiply : the Israel surrogate motherhood agreements law : a conservative application of Halakhah or reformation of Jewish Law?

Diritto ecclesiastico, 2017
Recent scientific progress in reproductive biotechnologies implies significant transformations in terms of the value and culture of the concept of maternity, which is no longer attributable to the legal definition of “mother” offered by Jewish Law (the woman that gave birth to the child).
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Dor Tahpukhot : An Against-the-Grain Reading of Orthodox Jewish Law (Halakhah) on Gender Affirmation Surgeries

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues
Abstract: This article examines the attitude toward gender affirmation surgeries expressed in a particular work of Jewish law (halakhah), Dor tahpukhot (A generation of radical change, 2004) by Idan Ben-Efrayim, an ultra-Orthodox rabbi of Sephardi origin.
Ronit Irshai, Ilay Avidan
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Evolving Halakhah: A Progressive Approach to Traditional Jewish Law

Journal of Law and Religion, 2002
Joel B. Wolowelsky, Moshe Zemer
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