Monthly Archives: April 2010
Federal law experts challenge the proposed life sentence for Sholom Rubashkin
From Life Sentence Is Debated for Meat Plant Ex-Chief, New York Times, 4/28/10: In a final chapter to the long aftermath of a 2008 immigration raid at a kosher meatpacking plant in Iowa, a federal court in Cedar Rapids heard arguments on Wednesday over the sentencing of Sholom Rubashkin, the former chief executive. Mr. Rubashkin […]
The Importance of Custom, Usage and Course of Conduct in Jewish Monetary Law
This week’s Parsha email from the Bais HaVaad Institute of Talmudic Law includes a brief discussion of the concept that Jewish Law recognizes the accepted business of the time a place and place in which a transaction occurs. In Choshen Mishpat 201:1-2, the concept of situmta is explained. A situmta was a kind of mark […]
Panel discussion on corruption and public integrity from halachic and secular perspectives
The Center for Ethics at Yeshiva University Invites you to Scandal, Money, and Corruption: What to Do When Leaders Go Bad? — A panel discussion featuring: Rabbi Yosef Blau (RIETS) Prof. Noam Zohar (Dept. of Philosophy, Bar Il-An University) Melanie Sloan, Esq. (Exec. Dir., Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington). This panel will examine […]
Court allows non-Jewish widow to transfer body of Jewish husband to non-Jewish cemetery
A Supreme Court judge in Queens County permitted the non-Jewish spouse of a deceased Jewish man to exhume his body from a Jewish cemetery for reburial in what the judge termed a “non-denominational” cemetery, St. Elizabeth. The decedent was buried in the family plot next to his father. His mother and sister opposed the exhumation, […]
