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Computer Applications for Handling Legal Evidence, Police Investigation and Case Argumentation

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Computer Applications for Handling Legal Evidence, Police Investigation and Case Argumentation

By: Ephraim Nissan

This book provides an overview of computer techniques and tools — especially from artificial intelligence (AI) — for handling legal evidence, police intelligence, crime analysis or detection, and forensic testing, with a sustained discussion of methods for the modelling of reasoning and forming an opinion about the evidence, methods for the modelling of argumentation, and computational approaches to dealing with legal, or any, narratives. By the 2000s, the modelling of reasoning on legal evidence has emerged as a significant area within the well-established field of AI & Law. An overview such as this one has never been attempted before. It offers a panoramic view of topics, techniques and tools. It is more than a survey, as topic after topic, the reader can get a closer view of approaches and techniques. One aim is to introduce practitioners of AI to the modelling legal evidence. Another aim is to introduce legal professionals, as well as the more technically oriented among law enforcement professionals, or researchers in police science, to information technology resources from which their own respective field stands to benefit. Computer scientists must not blunder into design choices resulting in tools objectionable for legal professionals, so it is important to be aware of ongoing controversies. A survey is provided of argumentation tools or methods for reasoning about the evidence. Another class of tools considered here is intended to assist in organisational aspects of managing of the evidence. Moreover, tools appropriate for crime detection, intelligence, and investigation include tools based on link analysis and data mining. Concepts and techniques are introduced, along with case studies. So are areas in the forensic sciences. Special chapters are devoted to VIRTOPSY (a procedure for legal medicine) and FLINTS (a tool for the police). This is both an introductory book (possibly a textbook), and a reference for specialists from various quarters.

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904818990X

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Receptions of Simon Magus as an Archetype of the Heretic

By: Alberto Ferreiro,Ephraim Nissan

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Receptions of Simon Magus as an Archetype of the Heretic

By: Alberto Ferreiro,Ephraim Nissan

This book about receptions of Simon Magus uncovers further facets of one who was held to be the evil archetype of heretics. Ephraim Nissan and Alberto Ferreiro explore how Simon Magus has been represented in text, visual art, and music. Special attention is devoted to the late medieval Catalan painter Lluís Borrassà and the Italian librettist and musician Arrigo Boito. The tradition of Simon Magus’ demonic flight, ending in his crashing down, first appears in the patristic literature. The book situates that flight typologically across cultures. Fascinating observations emerge, as the discussion spans flight of the wicked in rabbinic texts, flight and death of King Lear’s father and a Soviet-era Buryat Buddhist monk, flight and doom of the fool in an early modern German broadsheet, and more. The book explains and moves beyond extant scholarly wisdom on how the polemic against Mani (the founder of Manichaeism) was tinged with hues of Simon Magus. The novelty of this book is that it shows that Simon Magus’ receptions teach us a great deal about the contexts in which this archetype was deployed.

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Springer Nature

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3031125231

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Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe

By: Ephraim Shoham-Steiner

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Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe

By: Ephraim Shoham-Steiner

Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe is a topic laced by prejudice on one hand and apologetics on the other. Beginning in the Middle Ages, Jews were often portrayed as criminals driven by greed. While these accusations were, for the most part, unfounded, in other cases criminal accusations against Jews were not altogether baseless. Drawing on a variety of legal, liturgical, literary, and archival sources, Ephraim Shoham-Steiner examines the reasons for the involvement in crime, the social profile of Jews who performed crimes, and the ways and mechanisms employed by the legal and communal body to deal with Jewish criminals and with crimes committed by Jews. A society’s attitude toward individuals identified as criminals—by others or themselves—can serve as a window into that society’s mores and provide insight into how transgressors understood themselves and society’s attitudes toward them. The book is divided into three main sections. In the first section, Shoham-Steiner examines theft and crimes of a financial nature. In the second section, he discusses physical violence and murder, most importantly among Jews but also incidents when Jews attacked others and cases in which Jews asked non-Jews to commit violence against fellow Jews. In the third section, Shoham-Steiner approaches the role of women in crime and explores the gender differences, surveying the nature of the crimes involving women both as perpetrators and as victims, as well as the reaction to their involvement in criminal activities among medieval European Jews. While the study of crime and social attitudes toward criminals is firmly established in the social sciences, the history of crime and of social attitudes toward crime and criminals is relatively new, especially in the field of medieval studies and all the more so in medieval Jewish studies. Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe blazes a new path for unearthing daily life history from extremely recalcitrant sources. The intended readership goes beyond scholars and students of medieval Jewish studies, medieval European history, and crime in pre-modern society.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814345603

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The Dual Truth, Volumes I & II

Studies on Nineteenth-Century Modern Religious Thought and Its Influence on Twentieth-Century Jewish Philosophy

By: Ephraim Chamiel

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The Dual Truth, Volumes I & II

Studies on Nineteenth-Century Modern Religious Thought and Its Influence on Twentieth-Century Jewish Philosophy

By: Ephraim Chamiel

This book explores three schools of fascinating, talented, and gifted scholars whose philosophies assimilated the Jewish and secular cultures of their respective homelands: they include halakhists from Rabbi Ettlinger to Rabbi Eliezer Berkowitz; Jewish philosophers from Isaac Bernays to Yeshayau Leibowitz; and biblical commentators such as Samuel David Luzzatto and Rabbi Umberto Cassuto. Running like a thread through their philosophies is the attempt to reconcile the Jewish belief in revelation with Western culture, Western philosophy, and the conclusions of scientific research. Among these attempts is Luzzatto’s “dual truth” approach. The Dual Truth is the sequel to the Ephraim Chamiel’s previous book The Middle Way, which focused on the challenges faced by members of the “Middle Trend” in nineteenth-century Jewish thought.

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Academic Studies PRess

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1644691027

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9781644691021

The Orthodox Jewish Wedding Planner

By: Ephraim Horowitz

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The Orthodox Jewish Wedding Planner

By: Ephraim Horowitz

This planner describes the entire Jewish Wedding process from how to select a caterer and hall to all the steps of the ceremony. Events before and after the wedding day are also discussed. Several checklists are also inlcuded to help the planning process. In addition, customs from various major Jewish Orthodox groups are presented and compared. The guide also includes a full glossary of Hebrew and Yiddish terms. Finally, all blessings and songs used during the wedding ceremony are included.

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Lulu.com

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0557764505

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"Peering Through the Lattices"

Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period

By: Ephraim Kanarfogel

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"Peering Through the Lattices"

Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period

By: Ephraim Kanarfogel

During the high Middle Ages, the tosafists flourished in northern Europe and revolutionized the study of the Talmud. These Jewish scholars did not participate in the philosophical and religious thought that concerned Christendom, and today they are seen as having played a limited role in mystical or esoteric studies. Ephraim Kanarfogel now challenges this conventional view of the tosafists, showing that many individuals were influenced by ascetic and pietistic practices and were involved with mystical and magical doctrines. He traces the presence of these disciplines in the pre-Crusade period, shows how they are intertwined, and suggests that the widely available Hekhalot literature was an important conduit for this material. He also demonstrates that the asceticism and esotericism of the German Pietists were an integral part of Ashkenazic rabbinic culture after the failure of Rashbam and other early tosafists to suppress these aspects of pre-Crusade thinking. The identification of these various forms of spirituality places the tosafists among those medieval rabbinic thinkers who sought to supplement their Talmudism with other areas of knowledge such as philosophy and kabbalah, demonstrating the compatibility of rabbinic culture and mysticism. These interests, argues Kanarfogel, explain both references to medieval Ashkenazic rabbinic figures in kabbalistic literature and the acceptance of certain ascetic and mystical practices by later Ashkenazic scholars. Drawing on original manuscript research, Kanarfogel makes available for the first time many passages produced by lesser known tosafists and rabbinic figures and integrates the findings of earlier and contemporary scholarship, much of it published only in Hebrew. "Peering through the Lattices" provides a greater appreciation for these texts and opens up new opportunities for scholarhship in Jewish history and thought.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814339948

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A Woman's Sweet Lemons

Life, Love and Personal Growth

By: Sarah Ephraim

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A Woman's Sweet Lemons

Life, Love and Personal Growth

By: Sarah Ephraim

A Woman’s Sweet Lemons Life, Love and Personal growth This is an inspirational story of a woman who chose to rise above her misfortunes and live her life to the full, despite the challenges she faced. The old adages, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” and “When people throw bricks at you, use them to construct your empire” and “sticks and stones may hurt my bones but talk can never hurt me,” have never been more applicable, relevant and appropriate. All cultures should embrace the fact that there is a paradigm shift in as far as how women should be treated in the home, in business, at the work place, in the community and in society as a whole. Failure to recognize, acknowledge and adapt with this shift is tantamount to being left behind while the whole world moves on. Whether we are young or old, misfortunes are a part of our lives. Misfortunes are to our lives as lemons are to our taste buds. Lemons are bitter but depending on how you use them, they can help to make an otherwise non appetizing dish look very appealing and taste very delicious, resulting in A Woman’s Sweet Lemons.

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1728397529

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9781728397528

On the Margins of a Minority

Leprosy, Madness, and Disability Among the Jews of Medieval Europe

By: Ephraim Shoham-Steiner

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On the Margins of a Minority

Leprosy, Madness, and Disability Among the Jews of Medieval Europe

By: Ephraim Shoham-Steiner

Explores social additudes towards individuals on the margins of medieval European Jewish society. In medieval Europe, the much larger Christian population regarded Jews as their inferiors, but how did both Christians and Jews feel about those who were marginalized within the Ashkenazi Jewish community? In On the Margins of a Minority: Leprosy, Madness, and Disability among the Jews of Medieval Europe, author Ephraim Shoham-Steiner explores the life and plight of three of these groups. Shoham-Steiner draws on a wide variety of late-tenth- to fifteenth-century material from both internal (Jewish) as well as external (non-Jewish) sources to reconstruct social attitudes toward these "others," including lepers, madmen, and the physically impaired. Shoham-Steiner considers how the outsiders were treated by their respective communities, while also maintaining a delicate balance with the surrounding non-Jewish community. On the Margins of a Minority is structured in three pairs of chapters addressing each of these three marginal groups. The first pair deals with the moral attitude toward leprosy and its sufferers; the second with the manifestations of madness and its causes as seen by medieval men and women, and the effect these signs had on the treatment of the insane; the third with impaired and disabled individuals, including those with limited mobility, manual dysfunction, deafness, and blindness. Shoham-Steiner also addresses questions of the religious meaning of impairment in light of religious conceptions of the ideal body. He concludes with a bibliography of sources and studies that informed the research, including useful midrashic, exegetical, homiletic, ethical, and guidance literature, and texts from responsa and halakhic rulings. Understanding and exploring attitudes toward groups and individuals considered "other" by mainstream society provides us with information about marginalized groups, as well as the inner social mechanisms at work in a larger society. On the Margins of a Minority will appeal to scholars of Jewish medieval history as well as readers interested in the growing field of disability studies.

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0814339328

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9780814339329

Between Religion and Reason (Part I)

The Dialectical Position in Contemporary Jewish Thought from Rav Kook to Rav Shagar

By: Ephraim Chamiel

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Between Religion and Reason (Part I)

The Dialectical Position in Contemporary Jewish Thought from Rav Kook to Rav Shagar

By: Ephraim Chamiel

The present book is a sequel to Ephraim Chamiel’s two previous works The Middle Way and The Dual Truth—studies dedicated to the “middle” trend in modern Jewish thought, that is, those positions that sought to combine tradition and modernity, and offered a variety of approaches for contending with the tension between science and revelation and between reason and religion. The present book explores contemporary Jewish thinkers who have adopted one of these integrated approaches—namely the dialectical approach. Some of these thinkers maintain that the aforementioned tension—the rift within human consciousness between intellect and emotion, mind and heart—can be mended. Others, however, think that the dialectic between the two poles of this tension is inherently irresolvable, a view reminiscent of the medieval “dual truth” approach. Some thinkers are unclear on this point, and those who study them debate whether or not they successfully resolved the tension and offered a means of reconciliation. The author also offers his views on these debates. This book explores the dialectical approaches of Rav Kook, Rav Soloveitchik, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Samuel Hugo Bergman, Leo Strauss, Ernst Simon, Emil Fackenheim, Rabbi Mordechai Breuer, his uncle Isaac Breuer, Tamar Ross, Rabbi Shagar, Moshe Meir, Micah Goodman and Elchanan Shilo. It also discusses the interpretations of these thinkers offered by scholars such as Michael Rosenak, Avinoam Rosenak, Eliezer Schweid, Aviezer Ravitzky, Avi Sagi, Binyamin Ish-Shalom, Ehud Luz, Dov Schwartz, Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, Lawrence Kaplan, and Haim Rechnitzer. The author questions some of these approaches and offers ideas of his own. This study concludes that many scholars bore witness to the dialectical tension between reason and revelation; only some believed that a solution was possible. That being said, and despite the paradoxical nature of the dual truth approach (which maintains that two contradictory truths exist and we must live with both of them in this world until a utopian future or the advent of the Messiah), increasing numbers of thinkers today are accepting it. In doing so, they are eschewing delusional and apologetic views such as the identicality and compartmental approaches that maintain that tensions and contradictions are unacceptable.

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Computer Applications for Handling Legal Evidence, Police Investigation and Case Argumentation

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Computer Applications for Handling Legal Evidence, Police Investigation and Case Argumentation

Computer Applications for Handling Legal Evidence, Police Investigation and Case Argumentation

Receptions of Simon Magus as an Archetype of the Heretic

Receptions of Simon Magus as an Archetype of the Heretic

Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe

Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe

The Dual Truth, Volumes I & II

The Dual Truth, Volumes I & II

The Orthodox Jewish Wedding Planner

The Orthodox Jewish Wedding Planner

"Peering Through the Lattices"

"Peering Through the Lattices"

A Woman's Sweet Lemons

A Woman's Sweet Lemons

On the Margins of a Minority

On the Margins of a Minority

Between Religion and Reason (Part I)

Between Religion and Reason (Part I)

Computer Applications for Handling Legal Evidence, Police Investigation and Case Argumentation

Computer Applications for Handling Legal Evidence, Police Investigation and Case Argumentation

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