The Afterword to the book that Rabbi Broyde references can be found here

Afterword to Splitting Hairs

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Splitting Hairs: The History, Law and Future of Jewish Laws on Modesty and Women's Head Covering (Ben Yehuda, 2026)purchase on Amazon. To purchase this book in Israel, click Click here

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Rabbi Michael J. Broyde is professor of law at Emory University School of Law and senior fellow and projects director at the Center for the Study of Law andReligion at Emory University. Broyde's Semicha (yoreh yoreh ve-yadin yadin) was obtained in 1991 from Yeshiva University ,he was a Dayan of the Beth Din of America, where he also served as Menahel . He was the Founding Rabbi of the Young Israel of Atlanta. Rabbi Kivelevitz discusses with Broyde aspects of his newest work Settingthe Table: An Introduction to the Jurisprudence of Rabbi Yechiel Mikhel Epstein’s Arukh HaShulhan(co-authored with Shlomo Pill of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion) .The conversation serves as a cogent explication of how the Aruch HaShulchan differs essentially from the Mishna Brurah in aims and methodology. Rabbi Broyde's most recent books are Sex in the Garden: Consensual Encounters Gone Bad in Genesis(Wifpf & Stock, 2019),Sharia Tribunals, Rabbinical Courts, and Christian Panels: Religious Arbitration in America and the West(Oxford Press, 2017) andA Concise Code of Jewish Law for Converts(Urim, 2017). In addition to his many books, Broydehas written more than 250 articles and book chapters on various aspects of law and religion, Jewish law, and religious ethics, as well as an often-cited article on impeachment in theHarvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.He has written on military ethics from a Jewish law view, marriage and divorce in the Jewish tradition, bioethical dilemmas from a religious view, women’s rights in the Jewish tradition, the general relationship between secular and Jewish law in its many different facets. A list of his works may be found on hiswebsite.Broydehas been a visiting professor at Stanford,Hebrew University,and most recently theUniversity of Warsaw Law School in Polandand in theInterdisciplinaryCollege of Lawin Herzliya,Israel.He received a juris doctorfrom New York University and published a note on its law review. He also clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.