ARC.2020.02 Roth, Joel Papers, 1978-2006 (bulk)
| Abstract/Description: | The Joel Roth Papers consist of materials related to Dr. Roth's tenure as a member and chairman of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, from 1978 to 2006. This collection is divided into two series: Administrative Files and Subject Files. Administrative Files include correspondence, meeting minutes, agendas, procedural rules, and sub-committee materials. Correspondence generally relates to administrative matters, such as appointments to the CJLS, but also includes responses to questions on Jewish law. Some committee folders were previously arranged alphabetically with the Subject Files, and these files contain meeting minutes, correspondence, and research materials. This series also includes 4 folders related to the Joint Beit Din, a body of 9 Conservative rabbis which authorizes divorces (gittin), which are not open to research. Many of the types of administrative documents in this series can also be found within relevant Subject Files. Subject Files are arranged alphabetically and relate to matters studied and debated by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. Materials include procedural documents such as minutes, agendas, responsa, and drafts, some of which contain Joel Roth's notes and records of voting decisions, as well as research documents such as pamphlets, articles, research papers, newsletters, and previously published responsa. Some subject files also include correspondence. Many folders include Hebrew materials. Folder titles were transcribed directly, with the exception of Hebrew words or phrases which were transliterated. |
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| Subject(s): | Rabbinical Assembly. Committee on Jewish Law and Standards Rabbinical Assembly Abortion (Jewish law) Absence and presumption of death (Jewish law) Apartment houses, Cooperative (Jewish law) Artificial insemination, Human (Jewish law) Autopsy (Jewish law) Birth control (Jewish law) Burial laws (Jewish law) Capacity and disability (Jewish law) Cemeteries (Jewish law) Dead bodies (Jewish law) Divorce (Jewish law) Divorce suits (Jewish law) Donation of organs, tissues, etc. (Jewish law) Euthanasia (Jewish law) Exhumation (Jewish law) Fetus (Jewish law) Gambling (Jewish law) Gender transition (Jewish law) Gentiles (Jewish law) Human reproduction (Jewish law) Intellectual property (Jewish law) Interfaith marriage (Jewish law) Jewish law Jews--Dietary laws Karaites (Jewish law) Labor laws and legislation (Jewish law) Mamzer Marriage--Annulment (Jewish law) Married women (Jewish law) Parent and child (Jewish law) Passover--Customs and practices People with disabilities (Jewish law) Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law) Prisoners of war (Jewish law) Privacy, Right of (Jewish law) Rabbis -- United States Responsa Sabbath (Jewish law) Smoking (Jewish law) Synagogues (Jewish law) Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. (Jewish law) Wills (Jewish law) Women (Jewish law) Rabbis |
| Date Issued: | 1928 |
| Title: | ARC.2020.02 Roth, Joel Papers, 1978-2006 (bulk): Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. | |
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| Name(s): | Roth, Joel | |
| Type of Resource: | mixed material | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Issued: | 1928 | |
| Extent: | 8.75 Linear feet | |
| Abstract/Description: | The Joel Roth Papers consist of materials related to Dr. Roth's tenure as a member and chairman of the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, from 1978 to 2006. This collection is divided into two series: Administrative Files and Subject Files. Administrative Files include correspondence, meeting minutes, agendas, procedural rules, and sub-committee materials. Correspondence generally relates to administrative matters, such as appointments to the CJLS, but also includes responses to questions on Jewish law. Some committee folders were previously arranged alphabetically with the Subject Files, and these files contain meeting minutes, correspondence, and research materials. This series also includes 4 folders related to the Joint Beit Din, a body of 9 Conservative rabbis which authorizes divorces (gittin), which are not open to research. Many of the types of administrative documents in this series can also be found within relevant Subject Files. Subject Files are arranged alphabetically and relate to matters studied and debated by the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. Materials include procedural documents such as minutes, agendas, responsa, and drafts, some of which contain Joel Roth's notes and records of voting decisions, as well as research documents such as pamphlets, articles, research papers, newsletters, and previously published responsa. Some subject files also include correspondence. Many folders include Hebrew materials. Folder titles were transcribed directly, with the exception of Hebrew words or phrases which were transliterated. | |
| Identifier(s): | ARC.2020.02 | |
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Location of resource: Materials are available (by appointment only) at The Special Collections Reading Room, The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, 3080 Broadway, New York, NY 10027. Phone: 212.678.8973 or via E-mail: archives@jtsa.edu. Joel Roth Papers, The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, N.Y., ARC.2020.02, (Box #, Folder #). "Joel Roth is Louis Finkelstein Professor of Talmud and Jewish Law at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. Roth also serves as Rosh Yeshiva of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. The yeshiva, founded and maintained by United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism, is under the academic auspices of JTS. In addition to his teaching post, Rabbi Roth has held four key administrative positions at JTS, serving as dean of students of the Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies (then called Seminary College), director of the Melton Research Center for Jewish Education, and associate dean and dean of The Rabbinical School. An expert in halakhah, Dr. Roth was appointed to the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards in 1978 and served on it until December 2006, including a period of eight years as chairman. In addition to articles and responsa for the committee, Rabbi Roth has written The Halakhic Process: A Systemic Analysis and Sefer ha-Mordecai: Tractate Kiddushin. Dr. Roth received a bachelor's degree from Wayne State University in his hometown of Detroit. He also participated in the Herbert H. Lehman Institute of Talmudic Ethics, a special-studies program at JTS at that time. He received his master's degree at JTS, where he was ordained in 1968. That same year, Rabbi Roth was appointed to the faculty of JTS, as he continued his studies toward a PhD in Talmud, which he received in 1973." JTSA website, November 2020 (http://www.jtsa.edu/joel-roth): "The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards sets halakhic policy for Rabbinical Assembly rabbis and for the Conservative movement as a whole. Its membership consists of twenty-five rabbis who are voting-members, as well as five non-voting lay representatives of the United Synagogue and one non-voting cantor representing the Cantors' Assembly. The Committee discusses all questions of Jewish law that are posed by members of the Rabbinical Assembly or arms of the Conservative movement. When a question is placed on the agenda, individual members of the Committee will write teshuvot (responsa) which are discussed by the relevant subcommittees, and are then heard by the Committee, usually at two separate meetings. Papers are approved when a vote is taken with six or more members voting in favor of the paper. Approved teshuvot represent official halakhic positions of the Conservative movement. Rabbis have the authority, though, as marei d'atra, to consider the Committee's positions but make their own decisions as conditions warrant. Members of the Committee can also submit concurring or dissenting opinions that are attached to a decision, but do not carry official status." Rabbinical Assembly website, November 2020 (https://www.rabbinicalassembly.org/jewish-law/committee-jewish-law-and-standards) Materials are in English and Hebrew. |
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Rabbinical Assembly. Committee on Jewish Law and Standards Rabbinical Assembly Abortion (Jewish law) Absence and presumption of death (Jewish law) Apartment houses, Cooperative (Jewish law) Artificial insemination, Human (Jewish law) Autopsy (Jewish law) Birth control (Jewish law) Burial laws (Jewish law) Capacity and disability (Jewish law) Cemeteries (Jewish law) Dead bodies (Jewish law) Divorce (Jewish law) Divorce suits (Jewish law) Donation of organs, tissues, etc. (Jewish law) Euthanasia (Jewish law) Exhumation (Jewish law) Fetus (Jewish law) Gambling (Jewish law) Gender transition (Jewish law) Gentiles (Jewish law) Human reproduction (Jewish law) Intellectual property (Jewish law) Interfaith marriage (Jewish law) Jewish law Jews--Dietary laws Karaites (Jewish law) Labor laws and legislation (Jewish law) Mamzer Marriage--Annulment (Jewish law) Married women (Jewish law) Parent and child (Jewish law) Passover--Customs and practices People with disabilities (Jewish law) Prenuptial agreements (Jewish law) Prisoners of war (Jewish law) Privacy, Right of (Jewish law) Rabbis -- United States Responsa Sabbath (Jewish law) Smoking (Jewish law) Synagogues (Jewish law) Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. (Jewish law) Wills (Jewish law) Women (Jewish law) Rabbis |
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| Held by: | Special Collections, The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary | |
| Restrictions on Access: | Materials are available by appointment only. To make an appointment and request materials in advance, contact the Librarian in charge of archival materials at: 212.678.8973 or via E-mail: archives@jtsa.edu. The Administrative Files on the Joint Bet Din are not open to research. | |
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