"State Action and the Badges of Slavery". This paper analyses congressional debate on the Thirteenth Amendment as well as congressional debate and legislation shortly after the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and concludes that The Thirteenth Amendment was intended to protect a person from state action denying equal protection of the laws - an intent eventually codified in the Fourteenth Amendment. This paper is available in Zip format (48.7kb) or.doc format (184kb).
Refusal to Grant a Jewish Divorce as Infliction of Emotional Distress" In Jewish marital law, the husband possesses the sole discretion to initiate divorce. This paper proposes that a partial solution to the problem of refusal to grant a divorce may be found in tort law. Husbands or wives who vindictively refuse a Jewish divorce to their former spuse may be found liable for infliction of emotional distress. The author examines the validity of this argument both in terms of tort law and the constitutionality of applying tort law to a person’s refusal to engage in a religious divorce. This paper is available to downlaod in Zip format (50.4kb) .doc format (194kb) and can be read in html here.
Abortion and the Exceptions to the “No Duty To Aid” Rule This paper explores the relationship between a pregnant woman’s right to bodily autonomy and the argument that a fetus has a right to life. Though the American law rarely charges a person with a positive duty to act on behalf of anotherright-holder, it is argued that the pregnant woman-fetus relationship fits into several well established exceptions to this rule. Some extensions of the duty to aid in a parental context are explored. This paper can be downlaoded in Zip format (30.2kb) or.doc format (112kb).
Duress As a Defense to a Crime Against Humanity or War-Crimes Whose Underlying Offense is Murder: Prosecutor v. Erdemovic: A Questionable Direction for War-Crimes Jurisprudence. This paperreviews the decision of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (“ICTY”) in Prosecutor v. Drazen Erdemovic, which found that duress could not be asserted as an affirmative defense to a Crime Against Humanity where the underlying offense of that crime was murder. The author argues that the decision of the ICTY was incorrect, on several grounds. The author also discusses some implications of the Erdemovic case on the future of international prosecution of genocide, crimes against humanity, and related offenses. This paper is available for downlaod in Zip format (37.5kb) or.doc format (143kb).
Religious
Links: Pilotyid is the place to go for all the jewish software (freeware and shareware alike) that you could possibly neeed. Except, if you want free hebrew support (which includes a hack that makes everything appear backwards, download hebrewfonthack.zip from here.
Legal
Resources, Religious
Links: Please read my law school paperregarding the refusal to give a get (Jewish divorce document) and the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress. You can download it in Microsoft Word form.
For free real-time stock quotes, register with freerealtime.com.
Investor's Edge (AKA stockpoint.com)
gives you free delayed quotes on stocks, options, and mutual funds, a bit
of information on the company. Also, you can program a 15 stock and 15
mutual fund portfolio . All of this is FREE.
This
link lets you know how most major indexes did today, gives most active
lists, and more.
Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter
online allows free access (no need to sign up!) to delayed quotes and graphs
of a stock's performance (interday and intraday, with moving averages and
comparisons to major indexes).
The only newspaper in this world is the New
York Times. OK, OK, maybe the Washington
Post qualifies as well. I would add the Wall
Street Journal to this list, but it doesn't have a sports section.
"State Action and the Badges of Slavery".
This paper analyses congressional debate on the Thirteenth Amendment as
well as congressional debate and legislation shortly after the
ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment and concludes that The
Thirteenth Amendment was intended to protect a person from state action
denying equal protection of the laws - an intent eventually codified in
the Fourteenth Amendment. This paper is available in Zip format (48.7kb) or .doc format (184kb).
Refusal to Grant a Jewish Divorce as Infliction of Emotional Distress"
In Jewish marital law, the husband possesses the sole discretion to
initiate divorce. This paper proposes that a partial solution to the
problem of refusal to grant a divorce may be found in tort law.
Husbands or wives who vindictively refuse a Jewish divorce to their
former spuse may be found liable for infliction of emotional distress.
The author examines the validity of this argument both in terms of tort
law and the constitutionality of applying tort law to a person’s
refusal to engage in a religious divorce. This paper is available to
downlaod in Zip format (50.4kb) .doc format (194kb) and can be read in html here.
Abortion and the Exceptions to the “No Duty To Aid” Rule
This paper explores the relationship between a pregnant woman’s right
to bodily autonomy and the argument that a fetus has a right to life.
Though the American law rarely charges a person with a positive duty to
act on behalf of another right-holder, it is argued that the pregnant
woman-fetus relationship fits into several well established exceptions
to this rule. Some extensions of the duty to aid in a parental context
are explored. This paper can be downlaoded in Zip format (30.2kb) or .doc format (112kb).
Duress As a Defense to a Crime Against Humanity or War-Crimes Whose Underlying Offense is Murder: Prosecutor v. Erdemovic:
A Questionable Direction for War-Crimes Jurisprudence. This paper
reviews the decision of the International Criminal Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia (“ICTY”) in Prosecutor v. Drazen Erdemovic,
which found that duress could not be asserted as an affirmative defense
to a Crime Against Humanity where the underlying offense of that crime
was murder. The author argues that the decision of the ICTY was
incorrect, on several grounds. The author also discusses some
implications of the Erdemovic case on the
future of international prosecution of genocide, crimes against
humanity, and related offenses. This paper is available for downlaod in
Zip format (37.5kb) or .doc format (143kb).
From the news desk: here are today's top legal stories:
Pilotyid is the place to
go for all the jewish software (freeware and shareware alike) that you
could possibly neeed. Except, if you want free hebrew support (which
includes a hack that makes everything appear backwards, download
hebrewfonthack.zip from here.
Please read my law school paper regarding the refusal to give a
get (Jewish divorce document) and the tort of intentional infliction of
emotional distress. You can download it in Microsoft Word form.
Navigating the Bible contains verse-by-verse recordings of the chanting of Torah and Haftarah portions.
I highly recommend the following books by Rabbi David Weiss Halivni.
You can order these books from amazon.com by clicking on the appropriate
link.
The
Book And The Sword: A Life of Learning in the Shadow of Destruction. In
this book Rabbi Halivni describes how his lifelong involvement with the
Jewish Talmud and the problems of its interpretation persisted from his
childhood in the Carpathian Mountains, through his internment in the concentration
camps, and into his late adulthood.
Rabbi Halivni's newest book, Revelation
Restored, Rabbi Halivni explores internal inconsistencies in the Pentateuch
and examines the question of how the Rabbinic tradition has been able to
accommodate evidence of human intervention in a text that derives its authority
from divine revelation.
You can get the longitude and latitude, as well as sunrise/sunset times
for one day
or for an
entire year for any of over 22,000 cities in the United States. Ideal
for calculating halachic times such as candle lighting.
Interested in Daf Yomi (the daily learning of one page of Talmud)? You
can listen to a shiur here.
Union For Traditional Judaism (UTJ)
Home Page. I am studying to be a Rabbi at their Institute of Traditional Judaism Rabinical school.
Eliezer Siegal's Home Page
complete with lots of religious information, explanations of Jewish texts
etc.
Virtual Jerusalem is one of the
best sites on the net. It has lots of features such as Kotel-Kam
and a page where you can send
a message to the Kotel (Wailing/Western Wall).
If you'd like to add a search feature to your website, visit searchbutton. It's free, of course.
Freedback.com
allows you to create feedback frames for your website without needing
to know anything, or even needing access to your server's CGI!!! I'm
using this service to re-create the forms I used to have on this page.
For instance:
To add weather information to your website, visit weather.com and click on "Weather on your site" in the banner.
Here is today's weather
in New York's Central Park. You can add weather to your website as
well. Click through and find out how.
To register your web page at 30 of the most popular search engnines,
visit http://www.addme.com. It's free!
New web page? Want to get the word out? Fill out just one form and register
your page with 15 search engines for free. It's available from Submit-It!
Get a free, permanent e-mail address from Net
@ddress. Mine is noahsark@usa.net.
I also use hotmail.com, which is also
useful for reading your e-mail when you're away from home. It has
a usefull function to download e-mail from any pop server (as long as that
server allows access).
Metacrawler allows you to search
many engines at once. It has several options, and is quite fast also. This
is my favorite search engine.
Starting Point is a web jumping off
point. You can browse their chosen sites or type in your search, and then
click on different search engines to search.
HTML Tools
Want to learn how to create HTML code? Here are some links to
helpful html tutorials:
Below are the e-mail lists I subscribe to. Click on them to get subscribe
information. Once I figure out cgi-programing I'll probably put forms here
for subscribing.
Trek-Cochavim
is a list that discusses Jewish issues of Star Trek
Israeline
sends you briefs on news from Israel every day (no link yet).
For a daily e-mail on subjects your intered in (eg sports, business,
entertainment) check out www.infobeat.com.
And a link to what is without a doubt the best show on television (check
it out on Comedy Central): Who's
Line Is It Anyway. Note that the new ABC version with Drew Carrey
is fairly good as well.
From the news desk: Here are today's top TV related storeis:
Looking for tickets to sporting events, concerts, or travel? Go to Webtix.
My Virtu-Wall
is a list of quotes, mostly from people I know.
You can get the longitude and latitude, as well as sunrise/sunset times
for one day
or for an
entire year for any of over 22,000 cities in the United States. Ideal
for calculating halachic times such as candle lighting.
