Common law

John Selden, Brexit, and the need for national laws.

July 18 2016 12:01AM

A reply to my respondents.

Dec. 25 2013 8:45PM

Orthodox rabbis need to stop worrying about 200-year-old battles with “Reformers” and allow Jewish law to develop organically, as it always did in the past.

David Golinkin
Dec. 22 2013 8:47PM

There have been two moments in the last 150 years when the assumptions behind Jewish law seemed poised to change. Nothing happened. Is today different?

Dec. 15 2013 2:14PM

Why Jewish law is more a set of guidelines than of rules.

Dec. 8 2013 9:18PM

The Jewish Legal Tradition and Its Discontents

Dec. 1 2013 10:24PM

Why did John Selden, the most learned man in England, choose to study the Talmud when imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1629? To. . .

Steven Grosby
Aug. 6 2013 12:00AM