Additional Jewish Law Web Sites
The following collection of links to independent Web sites is intended to facilitate your Jewish law scholarship. The Center, the College of Law and the university do not sponsor or monitors the content of these sites. The views expressed on these sites are not necessarily the views of the Center, the College of Law or the University. Though some of the sites are described as providing free services or materials, the user is ultimately responsible for understanding the terms and conditions of the sites utilized.
Bibliographies
Professor Nahum Rakover’s "Multi Language Bibliography of Jewish Law"
RAMBI: the Index of Articles on Jewish Studies (maintained by The Hebrew University)
Library of the Faculty of Law at Bar-Ilan University: Index to Articles (written in Hebrew or English and address matters of Jewish law)(choose the top left link for "English" and then choose "Index to Articles")
Columbia University: Bibliographies on Jewish studies
Free Downloads of Jewish Law Scholarship (primarily in Hebrew)
Seforim Online (various Hebrew seforim available to download, many are rare or out-of-print)
Jewish National & University Library Online Heritage: JNUL Digitalized Book Repository
Tshuvos (Hebrew seforim available for download)
Hebrew versions of sacred texts
Online Treasure of Talmudic Manuscripts
Sample Talmudic page (with explanations of the various commentaries printed on the page)
Free Downloads of Jewish Law Scholarship (primarily in English)
Translations of Classical Jewish texts -
Translation of Jewish Scripture
An English index to parts of the Talmud
Jlaw (various contemporary Jewish law articles and commentaries in English available for download
Journal of Torah and Scholarship
Torah Mitzion: Religious Zionist Kollelim
University of Manchester: Working papers of the Agunah Research Unit
Fee-Based Access to Jewish Law Texts
Various sites charge for access to Jewish law texts. One site, Otzar HaHochma, may be especially useful for people who need to do a few precise searches, as it contains more than 30,000 volumes of Hebrew texts in PDF format. The site also sells five different editions of a portable database containing some or all of these texts
Research Guides
University of Miami’s Jewish law research guide
Cleveland State University: Judaic Law Research Guide
Bar-Ilan Faculty of Law library
Resources Pertaining to Ethics and Bioethics
Jewish Association for Business Ethics (JABE)
Jewish Media Resources - Jewish Ethics
Kampala Collection on Jewish Ethics
News and articles on Jewish Ethics
Deconstructionist Center for Jewish Ethics
Miscellaneous Resources
D.A.F.’s Dafyomi Central Headquarters (provides an extensive array of links to free online resources as well as links to purchasable study aids regarding the Babylonian Talmud)
Codex(a web site for the academic study of the Bible, Theology and More by Tyler F. Williams, chair of the Religion and Theology Department at Taylor University College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada/ –. Among other things, the site contains a link to descriptions of many introductory Hebrew grammars as well as a link to a second site with additional academic hyperlinks.
University of Delaware: Internet Resources for Jewish Studies
University of Pennsylvania: Judaica Electronic Texts(links to a wide variety of texts in English, Hebrew, Aramaic and other languages. It also contains links to a variety of other electronic libraries, collections and reference works)
See also: Internet Resources for the Study of Judaism and Christianity
Princeton University: Jewish Studies Resources
Columbia University: Jewish Studies Internet Resources
University of Washington: Jewish Law Resource Page
H-Judaic: Jewish Studies Network
E. Ben Zvi – Assisting You to Learn
Jewish Law Library Sites
Association of Jewish Libraries
The Jewish National and University Library
Bar-Ilan Faculty of Law Library
Yeshiva University Gottesman Library
Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies Asher Library
Ostrow Library at American Jewish University
Hebrew Theological College Saul Silber Memorial Library
Jewish Law Associations and Organizations
American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists
Association for Canadian Jewish Studies
Association for Jewish Studies
British Association for Jewish Studies
International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists
The Jewish Law Association (JLA)is an international organization dedicated to promoting Jewish law, particularly Jewish law written in English. Among other things, JLA biennially convenes an international conference, sponsors additional programs both inside and outside of the U.S., publishesJewish Law Association Studies), and distributes a periodic e-newsletter containing articles as well as reports regarding cases, scholarship and news events of interest to those involved with Jewish law.
The Jewish Studies Network(see H-Judaic)
Jewish Law Academic Programs
Academic Information: Jewish Organizations, etc
Academic Jewish Studies Internet Directory
Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies
The Hebrew University Faculty of Law
Israeli Colleges and Universities
London School of Jewish Studies
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Princeton University Program in Judaic Studies
University of Cambridge, College of Divinity, Jewish Studies
University of Manchester Centre for Jewish Studies
University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Jewish Studies
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law
Touro Law Center Jewish Law Institute
Yeshiva University Cardozo School of Law Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization
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