question are Yemenites, whose community, by long-standing takanah, follows the rulings of Rambam in all cases. See, however, Shlomo Riskin , Women and Jewish Divorce, Hoboken , 1989.
25. R. Menachem M. Kasher,"Beinyan Tenai Benisuin," Noam, XII, 1969. For compendia of rabbinic opposition to earlier suggestions, see Ein Tenai BeNisuin, Vilna, 1930, concerning the 1907 proposal of the French rabbis, and Ledor Acharon, New York , 1937, on the proposal of the Rabbinical Assembly . In general, see Mark Washofsky,"The Recalcitrant Husband," Jewish Law Annual, IV, 1981, pp. 144-166.
26. Joel Roth, The Halakhic Process: A Systemic Analysis, New York , 1986. Roth is perhaps best known for his extensive and detailed halakhic justification for the rabbinic ordination of women and, generally, women’s participation in the ritual and legal life of Judaism ; see Simon Greenberg , ed., The Ordination of Women as Rabbis , New York , 1988, pp. 127-187.
27. Hans Kelsen , The Pure Theory of Law , transl. May Knight, Berkeley and Los Angeles , 1967; P. J. Fitzgerald, Salmond on Jurisprudencey, 12th ed. London , 1966.
28. See Baba Batra 130b-131a, and Piskei Harosh, Sanhedrin 4:6; Roth cites other rishonim as well. On precedent in rabbinic law see Elon, pp. 768-804, and Z. Warhaftig,"Hatakdim Bamishpat Haivri", Shenaton Hamishpat Haivri, 6-7, 1979-80, pp. 105-132.
29. Walter S. Wurzburger ,"The Conservative View of Halakhah is Non-Traditional", Judaism , LVIII, Summer, 1989, p. 378.
30. See Bleich , Contemporary Halakhic Problems, p. 78:"The deliberations and publications of the Rabbinical Assembly do not...properly come within the purview of a work devoted to Halakhah . Much is to be said in favor of simply ignoring
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