Louis D. Brandeis is the presiding eminence in the story of the encounter of Jewish with the American legal order. In the centuries since Brandeis started practicing law, Jews have flourished exceedingly in both the legal professional mainstream (practitioners, judiciaries, academics) and the public interest sector. Can this extravagant participation in both hemispheres of the world of American...

This paper examines discriminatory attitudes of Israeli Jews towards non-Jewish immigrants admitted into Israel under the Law Return. We looked at three spheres discrimination: admission, political rights, and welfare rights focused on role realistic socioeconomic symbolic threats in emergence attitudes. used a mixed-methods approach that allowed to test our hypotheses among representative samp...

psychoanalysts since sigmund freud have tried to discuss the role of religion in modern societies. freud himself saw religion as an illusion which had struck neurotics, while slavoj žižek viewed it as some sort of “perversion” which functioned in the cycle of law-transgression. in this essay, i dig into these theories to uncover traces of lutheran interpretations of paul’s words on the jewish l...

A passage from the Talmud whose explanation eluded commentators for two millennia is elucidated with the aid of principles suggested by modern mathematical Theory of Games. ________________ * Institute of Mathematics, Center for rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, and Department of Economics, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem

At the time of the performance ofthe first successful heart transplants, a number of leading halakhic authorities pronounced such procedures to be in violation of Jewish law. Some claimed that each heart transplant procedure entails two acts of homicide, viz., the immediate demise of the terminally ill donor from whom the healthy heart is removed and the premature death of the recipient.' In order

I begin this reflection on Jewish bioethical response to the dilemmas within oncofertility with a familiar caveat: there is no one particular authority on Jewish ethics, nor even on the legal, or halachic norms that govern Jewish community practice. Jewish bioethics has historically been an account of optimism about research, as a project of repair in a broken or unfinished world [1]. While Fre...