Jewish & Secular Legal Systems

Vol. XX, No. 2 | Sivan 5785 | Spring 2025

Articles

Between the Halakhic System and Lived Experience

By Mindy Feldman Hecht

The International Beit Din: A Trauma-Informed Beit Din

By Leah Sarna

Halakhah in Her Voice

By Daphne Lazar Price

Rate My Beit Din: Adding Transparency to the Get Process

By Ramie Smith and Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll

Finding Humanity in Prison

By Bracha Jaffe

Intersectionality: A Black and Jewish Immigration Lawyer Celebrates Her Identities

By Cynthia G. Katz

Coercive Control: Defining Get Abuse in Secular Legal Terms

By Esther Macner

The Problem of the Agunah: From Religious Right to Civil Wrong

By Susan Weiss

Spotlight on Devorah Scholars.

Rabbaniyot and the Chief Rabbinate in Israel

By Sharon Brick-Deshen

Clashing Religious Beliefs, Custody, and the Constitution

By Jane J. Felton

Rethinking Obligation: Women, Mitzvot, and the Divergent Voices of the Bavli and Yerushalmi

By Shana Strauch Schick

Can Women Be Witnesses in a Beit Din?

By Gloria Nusbacher

Book Corner

Shabbat Guidebook for Parents: Halacha of Caring for Infants and Children on Shabbat and Yom Tov by Alissa Thomas-Newborn.

By Alissa Thomas-Newborn Urim Publications, 2025, $24.95
Reviewed By Maya Resnikof

Nashim Mesolelot: Lesbian Women and Halakha – A Teshuva with Responses by Rabbi Jeffrey Fox

By Rabbi Jeffrey Fox Ben Yehuda Press, 2024, $18
Reviewed By Meesh Hammer-Kossoy

Chutzpah Girls: 100 Tales of Daring Jewish Women by Julie Esther Silverstein and Tami Schlossberg Pruwer and Iconic Jewish Women: Fifty-Nine Inspiring, Courageous, Revolutionary Role Models for Young Girls by Aliza Lavie

Reviewed By Aliza Libman Baronofsky.
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A Publication of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance Volume XX, Issue 2 Spring 2025 – Sivan 5785

EDITOR:
Gloria Nusbacher

COPY EDITOR:
Roselyn Bell

PRESIDENT:
Mindy Feldman Hecht

PAST PRESIDENTS:
Judy Heicklen
Carol Kaufman Newman
Pam Scheininger

FOUNDING PRESIDENT:
Blu Greenberg

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR:
Daphne Lazar Price

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE:
Allie Alperovich
Kayla Arons
Carolyn Hochstadter Dicker
Adrienne Goldfeder
Rabbanit Bracha Jaffe
Wendy Lefko Messeloff
Lea New Minkowitz
Pam Scheininger
Nomi Schneck

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