Concurrent Jurisdictions in Jewish Law (The Practical Criminal Procedure as Posited by the Medieval Authorities in General and by Maimonides in Particular) (In Hebrew)
The Historic and Contemporary Relationships between Halakhah and Mishpat Hamelukhah
This article introduces the Jewish Political Studies Review issue examining traditional sources for building a civil state in a halakhically-acceptable manner, drawing upon
the halakhic category of mishpat hamelukhah. Jewish tradition knows two sources of legitimate legislative-judicial-governance activity. Principal among them is the halakhah which is traditionally understood as a direct development from God’s covenant with Israel at Sinai. The Bible developed the semi-separated category of mishpat hamelukhah (the law of the kingdom), explicated in Deuteronomy 17:11-20 and I Samuel 8-15, a parallel and semi-separate legal-judicial governance system within the power of the kings and other civil rulers in Israel.
Neo-Paganism in the Public Square and its Relevance to Judaism
Spiritual and secular aspects of paganism, Jewish environmentalism, and the long struggle of monotheism are discussed.
Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? Jews and Judaism in Canadian Schools and Universities
Examining a culture in which the wall between religion and education is not as high as in the United States, and what that means for the Jewish community of Canada.
The Jews of Moldova, 1998
One of the 15 post-Soviet successor states, Moldova occupies the greater part of the territory known historically from the seventeenth century onward as Bessarabia. It is bounded on the north and northeast by Ukraine, on the southeast by the Black Sea, and on the south and west by Romania.
The Jews of Moldova, 1998
After Russia, the contemporary situation of Jews in Moldovia, Jewish Education, and prospects for Aliyah.
Virtual Reality Comes to Canadian Jewry
The Canadian Jewish Congress and the staging of a plenary are focused on.
The Long Hot Israeli Summer
Dissolution of the Knesset and decisions on the future of the government with the inability to form an operating coalition.
Public Finance Considerations for Israeli Municipalities
Creating debt management programs for municipalities, and helping Israel to recover from its recession.
Assessing the Impact of the Indian and Pakistani Nuclear Tests on the Middle East
Since the beginning of the atomic age in 1945, the possession and deployment of nuclear weapons has become the dominant factor in the international system. Those countries that acquired nuclear weapons have become (or maintained their status as) primary world powers, but as the number of such countries grew, the potential for the use of nuclear weapons also increased.
