Preface -- 1. The transformation of violent experiences : a psychological perspective / Don J. Brand -- 2. Jewish religious communities and wife abuse / Roberta Rosenberg Farber -- 3. The treatment of violence and extra-judicial exercise of law and justice in Jewish law / Chaim Povarsky -- 4. Jewish violence in antiquity / Meir Bar-Ilan -- 5. Legitimate violence in formative Judaism / Jacob Neusner -- 6. "Mercy is vouchsafed from Heaven" : Halakhah's response to violence as expressed in the Arukh Hashulkhan Orach Haim, sections 560 and 577-8 / Simcha Fishbane -- 7. Violence as a factor in the communal life of the Montreal Jewish community in the early twentieth century / Ira Robinson -- 8. Anglo-Jewry and military conscription during the Great War / Geoffrey Alderman -- 9. Novel anti-semitisms : vampiric reflections of the Jew in Britain, 1875-1914 / Sara Libby Robinson -- 10. The personification of excess : antisemitism and the wages of alienation / Mark P. Worell -- 11. Ploughshare into swords : contemporary religious Zionists and moral constraints / Yitzchak Blau -- 12, "From the depths I have called to you" : Jewish reflections on September 11th and contemporary terrorism / David Shatz -- 13. Is there a "Halakhic" response to the problem of evil? / Moshe Sokol