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12 Jewish L. Rep. 1 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/jwlrpt12 and id is 1 raw text is: TOURO COLLEGE JACOB D. FUCHSBERG LAW CENTER Chaim Povarsky, Director Institute of Jewish Law Advisory Council Dov Frimer Menachem Genack Howard A.Glickstein Aaron Kirschenbaum Sidney Kwestel Daniel Lander Nahum Rakover Martin E. Ritholtz Executive Committee Ilene Barshay Richard Klein Sidney Kwestel Ken Rosenblum Jeffrey Roth Thomas Schweitzer Rena Seplowitz Daniel Subotnik Dr. Bernard Lander, President Touro College Howard A. Glickstein, Dean Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Institute of Jewish Law Jewish Law Report Editor: Dr. Chaim Povarsky April 2000 Table of Contents I. The Enforcement of a Jewish Marriage Contract in a Civil Court: Is Jewish Law a Religious Law? II. Activities of the Institute III. Current Events in Academia IV. Responsa Literature and Commentary: A. Peeping into a Neighbor's Premises: Visual Trespass under Jewish Law The Enforcement of a Jewish Marriage Contract in a Civil Court: Is Jewish Law a Religious Law? (Symposium held in November 1998 at Touro Law Center) Vice Dean Eileen Kaufman: Dean Howard Glickstein asked me to send his regrets for not being here tonight, but also his warm regards to the speakers and to those in attendance. I am delighted to welcome you to this conference entitled, The Enforcement of a Jewish Marriage Contract in a Civil Court: Is Jewish Law a Religious Law? This program is particularly topical given the fact that there has been at least one Jewish marriage very much in the news lately. Many of you may have seen an article that appeared in the New York Law Journal last weekend. The story, picked up by the popular media, involved a woman who is suing two Rabbis who divulged what she claimed was confidential information. The rabbis divulged that information to her husband for use in a pending matrimonial action. Her assertion of the privilege, the privilege between what is typically called penitent and priest, is not particularly noteworthy. However, the fact that

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