1. Various scholars including Professors Sherman Cohen, David Sapperstein & Barry Freundel of Georgetown U.; Professor Ernest J. Weinrib of the U. of Toronto; & this reviewer have prepared teaching materials for courses in Jewish Law. See also Dorff, Elliot & Rosett, Arthur, A Living Tree: The Roots and Growth of Jewish Law (S.U.N.Y. 1988)Google Scholar. This text, though valuable for law study, may be better suited to undergraduate or graduate studies.

2. The Preface, at iv, recognizes the relation of law and religion and indicates that no substantive law regarding the Jewish religion will be presented. However, as “Jewish law is a seamless web, there are significant relationships between the law applicable in these religious areas and the law applicable to the areas covered in this casebook.” Id.

3. Griswold v. Conn., 381 U.S. 479 (1965).

4. Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).

5. Whalen v. Roe, 429 U.S. 589 (1977).

6. McConnell v. Commonwealth Pictures Corp., 166 N.E.2d 494 (N.Y. 1960).

7. Elon, Menachem, Jewish Law: History, Sources, Principles (Ha-Mishpat Ha-Ivri (Jewish Publication Socy. 1994)Google Scholar.

8. The subject evokes substantial student interest and it represents my initial foray into substantial review of a Jewish law subject. See Werber, Stephen, Ancient Answers to Modern Questions: Death, Dying and Organ Transplants—A Jewish Law Perspective, 11 J. L. & Healt 13 (1996–1997)Google Scholar.

9. 48(I) P.D. 87 (1993).

10. 521 U.S. 702 (1997).

11. 521 U.S. 793 (1997).