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International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists

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Global NGO bringing together lawyers, judges, judicial officers and academic jurists concerned with human rights and the rule of law, particularly issues affecting Jewish people. It seeks to combat racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial and the delegitimisation of the State of Israel. The website gives details of the IJL's activities.

Jewish law research guide

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Guide to Jewish legal resources by the University of Miami Law Library. The guide refers mostly to printed sources. It gives an introduction to Jewish law and covers both secondary and primary sources, with notes on how to use primary sources such as the Talmud, the Responsa and legal codes. Bibliographies are also included.

Online Judaic Responsa Project

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Responsa is a database of Torah literature, available by subscription from Bar Ilan University in Israel. It includes the Bible, the Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi, with commentaries; there are works about Jewish law and custom, legal codes and over 80,000 Halachic law decisions. The database is in Hebrew, but the website has English and French interfaces.

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