Series
Volume 10
Progressive Halakhah
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Gender Issues in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Edited by Walter Jacob and Moshe Zemer
160 pages,
ISBN 978-1-57181-239-1 $29.95/£23.95 / Pb / Published (November 2000)
eISBN 978-1-80073-482-1 eBook
Description
Published in Association with the Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah
General Editor: Walter Jacob
Walter Jacob was Senior Scholar of Rodef Shalom Congregation, Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania. He also served as President of the Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah. He is the author and editor of a number of titles including American Reform Responsa (1983), Liberal Judaism and Halakhah (1988) and Not by Birth Alone, Conversion to Judaism (1997).
Moshe Zemer (1932-2011) was Director of the Freehof Insittue of Progressive Halakhah and a founder of the Movement for Progressive Judaism in Israel. He contributed to numerous articles on halakhah in the Israeli press and scientific journals and was author of The Sane Halakhah [Hebrew], (1993) which was translated into both German and English.