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- Shulchan Aruch, Halacha, Jewish Laws, Jewish Customs - Online audio classes on Halacha, Jewish laws, and Jewish customs by Rabbi Y. Shusterman
- Halacha, Jewish Laws and Jewish Customs of Chanukah - Online audio classes in the Halacha (Halakha) , Jewish laws and customs of Chanukah.
- Jewish Law - Legal Directory - Attorneys who share a common interest in, and commitment to, Halacha in its relationship to secular law and issues of Jewish concern in general, organized by location.
- Tau Epsilon Rho Law Society - A professional law society founded by Jewish law students in 1921. Membership is open to all attorneys and judges in good professional standing, and students attending law school.
- Jewish Law - Examining halacha, Jewish issues and secular law. The site has articles covering economic and family law areas, applied to modern society.
- New York Jewish Singles - Events for Jewish Singles in the New York City area. Events conducted in accordance with Jewish laws and customs.
- Halacha of Purim - Online audio files on the Halacha (Halakha), Jewish laws and customs, of Purim.
- Cloning People and Jewish Law: A Preliminary Analysis - Rabbi Michael J. Broyde looks at many sides of this issue and whether it should be allowed under Jewish Law.
- The Organization for the Resolution of Agunot - Dedicated to helping Jewish women receive a get, Jewish divorce, in accordance with strict Jewish law. New York, NY.
- Circumcision - A Source of Jewish Pain - An article which appeared in the Jewish Spectator. Includes information about the Jewish law on the subject, as well as personal experiences, and alternative options.
Wikipedia Articles
- Committee on Jewish Law and Standards - The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards is the central authority on halakha (Jewish law and tradition) within Conservative Judaism; it is one of the most active and widely known committees on the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly. Within the movement it is known as the CJLS.
- Joel Roth - Joel Roth is a prominent American rabbi in the Rabbinical Assembly, which is the rabbinical body of Conservative Judaism. He is a former member and chair of the assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS) which deals with questions of Jewish law and tradition, and serves as the Louis Finkelstein Professor of Talmud and Jewish Law at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) of America, in NYC, where he formerly served as dean of the Rabbinical School.
- List of Jewish jurists - This list included individuals as being Jewish either per ethnicity, culture or religion who have contributed prominently to the field of law, especially as eminent judges or legal scholars. Individuals who may have obtained law degrees, or practiced law, but whose reasons for notability are not closely related to that, are generally not listed here.
- Judah haNasi - Rabbi Judah haNasi, (Hebrew, יהודה הנשיא, "Judah the Prince"; also referred to as Rabbeinu HaKadosh – "Our holy rabbi, and Rebbi – "[My] rabbi or teacher") was a key leader of the Jewish community of Judea toward the end of the 2nd century CE, during its occupation by the Roman Empire. He is best known in Judaism as the chief "editor" or "redactor" of the Mishnah, the first part of the written compendium of Jewish religious law known as the Oral Law or Torah SheBe'al Peh upon which the Talmud is based and from which classical Jewish law Halakha is derived.
- Self-sacrifice under Jewish law - Judaism recognizes several types of self-sacrificial behavior, including, in certain specific instances, the requirement to actually relinquish one's life rather than transgress Jewish law. However, in Judaism the requirement to give up one's life is the exception rather than the rule.