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Essay Abortion, Birth Control, and the Complexity of Halacha (Jewish Law) Earlier this week, Melissa R. Klapper wrote about 5 American Jewish women you’ve (probably) never heard of. She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book… Melissa R. Klapper July 17, 2013
Nonfiction A Window on Their World: The Court Diary of Rabbi Hayyim Gundersheim — Frankfurt am Main, 1773 – 1794 Edward Fram
Nonfiction Henry Ford’s War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech Victoria Saker Woeste
Essay Why it Matters that Marshall was Never Nominated for the Supreme Court Earlier this week, M. M. Silver wrote about the riches in Louis Marshall’s archive and explored why it took so long for someone to write a full-length biography of… M. M. Silver March 1, 2013
Nonfiction Stories of the Law: Narrative Discourse and the Construction of Authority in the Mishnah Moshe Simon-Shoshan
Nonfiction Jewish Biomedical Law: Jewish Law Association Studies XV Daniel B. Sinclair, ed.
Nonfiction Foreigners and Their Food: Constructing Otherness in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Law David M. Freidenreich
Nonfiction Defending the Human Spirit: Jewish law’s Vision For a Moral Society Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein
