scholarly journals The Jewish Law Student and New York Jobs. Discriminatory Effects in Law Firm Hiring Practices

1964 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 625 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Hiring Practices ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Law Student

Parallels between Talmudic and New York Usury Laws

1966 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard J. Meislin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Common Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Special Situation ◽  
Judicial Decisions ◽  
Legal Limits ◽  
Communist Countries

The two jurisdictions with the greatest volume and complexity of laws dealing with usury are the United States and Israel. England, the wellspring of our common law, and one of present-day Israel's legal fonts, did away with all regulation of interest over a century ago. All of continental Europe contains only two or three jurisdictions which apply legal limits to interest on loans. The communist countries present a special situation since private loans at interest have no official place in the economic system. Islamic countries, like Pakistan, constitutionally frown on interest but it is present in practice, thereby embarrassing the secular authorities. However, the extent of legal experience with loans at interest in all other jurisdictions combined does not rival that wealth of elaborate study which is to be found in judicial decisions and legislative documents in American and Jewish law. It is, therefore, of interest to examine from a comparative standpoint the approach to usury taken by United States' courts and by Jewish legal authorities to see in which respects they differ and are similar.

The Professor

Yeshiva Days ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 156-179
Author(s):  
Jonathan Boyarin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Corporate Law ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Field Notes

This chapter recounts the life of the author as a junior associate at a major New York corporate law firm, an anthropologist, and his early kollel year at Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem (MTJ). It details the months he spent studying the Mishnah with Petrushka's Yiddish commentary with Nasanel. The chapter also focuses on the tractate Kilaim, a rarely studied text that deals with the rules about forbidden mixtures of planted crops. It tackles the beginning of the entire mishnaic corpus and study Petrushka on the tractate Berachos (blessings), with the goal of eventually studying together all of the Mishnah. The chapter acknowledges the encouragement the author received from his fellows at MTJ and recalls a brief conversation he had with Rabbi Weiss, after spending some time with him and Rabbi Karp studying Mishnah berurah. Ultimately, it discusses the author's field notes from the beginning of this “project,” which give the lie to his claim that he doesn't think of the yeshiva as a separate “world.”

Jewish Law: A Misapplication in New York?

1969 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 578-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan J. Topol
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Jewish Law
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