Tehumin

Tehumin

"Tehumin" ( _he. תחומין, Tehumin being an acronym for "Torah Hevrah UMedINa" ( _he. תורה חברה ומדינה), lit. "Torah, Society and State") is a Hebrew-language annual journal of articles about Jewish law and Modernity. It has been published in Israel, by the Zomet Institute once a year since its creation in 1980. Selected articles From "Tehumin" have been translated into English and published as "Crossroads: Halacha and the Modern World" [ [http://library.ohio-state.edu/search?/Xtehumin&SORT=D&searchscope=7/Xtehumin&SORT=D&searchscope=7&SUBKEY=tehumin/1%2C4%2C4%2CB/frameset&FF=Xtehumin&SORT=D&searchscope=7&1%2C1%2C# Tehumin] Ohio State University Library catalog] .

The articles in the journal deal with:
*Shabbat and Jewish holiday [ [http://www.daat.ac.il/daat/english/tfila/frimer2.htm Women's Megilla Reading] Rabbi Professor Aryeh A. Frimer, Bar-Ilan University.]
*Law and Justice [ [http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-115834108.html Advocacy and compassion in the Jewish tradition] Sinclair Daniel, Fordham Urban Law Journal, 11, Nov 2003.]
*Army and Security [ [http://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/eng/kiteze/zol.html Do Priests go to War?] Rabbi Judah Zoldan, Bar-Ilan University 25,August 2007] .
*Medicine and Medical ethics [ [http://www.telerom.co.il/szmc/index.asp?id=97&top=1&page_id=230 The Laws of Saving Lives: The Teachings of Rabbi S. Z. Auerbach ] Shaare Zedek Medical Center - Publications.]
*Marriage and Family law [ [http://www.law.emory.edu/fileadmin/faculty_documents/cv/broyde_cv.pdf Error in the Creation of Marriage] Professor Michael Broyde, Emory University School of Law, Atlanta.]

References

* [http://www.law.biu.ac.il/pirsumim.php?id=35

External links

* [http://www.zomet.org.il/?CategoryID=170 An index to Tehumin] On the Zomet Institute site he icon


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