Rabbinic Authority: The Vision and the Reality, Beit Din Decisions in English, Volume 6 Volume 6

In this sixth vollume of his groundbreaking series on rabbinic authority, Rabbi Warburg continues to discuss issues related to the modern-day Agunah, such as who has the authority to void a marriage and criminal proceedings against a Jew in a non-Jewish court for get refusal. Accompanying his discussion of rabbinical domestic rulings, which includes collaborative reproduciton and the ownership and market of human tissue, Rabbi Warburg continues to examine rabbinic civil law cases.

Since 1999, Rabbi Dr. A. Yehuda Warburg has served as a dayan (rabbinical judge) on various beit din panels in the Hassidic, Modern Orthodox, Sephardic, and Yeshiva communities in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. He is a former research fellow at the Institute of Jewish Law at Boston University School of Law. He was a member of the editorial board of the journal Tradition and served on the editorial board of The Jewish Law Annual. For over two decades, he taught Hoshen Mishpat (business law) and Even ha-Ezer (family law) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary.