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Mercy, Lovingkindness, and Peace: A Jewish Affirmation of Respect for Life.
Jewish Tradition: What Does It Imply for Abortion?
Jewish tradition can be compared to a garden four thousand years old, full of rich and beautiful plants, and laid out as a highly intricate maze. The purpose of following its paths is to learn something about the One who planted it, since each leaf represents a part of His wisdom, something about how to live wisely in the larger world that was, and is continually, created by Him. (1)
The paths make a pattern that becomes discernible with time. The pattern tells us that the essential concerns of God are compassion and justice, divine forces through which the created world was called into being, and that ...
- Heavenly Sex: Sexuality in the Jewish Tradition.
- Magazine article from: The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality Chernick, Beryl A. June 22, 1998 700+ words
HEAVENLY SEX: SEXUALITY IN THE JEWISH TRADITION. (1995). Ruth K. Westheimer and Jonathan...compensation is what "an eye for an eye" means in Jewish law. The classical Jewish tradition, from Leviticus 18:22 and thereafter...
- Advocacy and compassion in the Jewish tradition.(Religious Values and Poverty...
- Magazine article from: Fordham Urban Law Journal Sinclair, Daniel B. November 1, 2003 700+ words
...problems for Jewish law, or halakhah...post-biblical Jewish law to question the...regarded in the Jewish tradition, and many eminent...of advocacy in Jewish law, and highlights...advocacy in the Jewish tradition. II. THE JUDGE...
- Gender Issues in Jewish Law: Essays and Responsa. .(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Shofar Weisberg, Dvora E. January 1, 2003 700+ words
...gender issues within Jewish law. One issue explored...essay "Custom Drives Jewish Law on Women." Dorffs...The role of custom in Jewish law is also the theme of...reject the content of Jewish tradition not because of convenience...
- Ancient answers to modern questions: death, dying, and organ transplants - a...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Law and Health Werber, Stephen J. March 22, 1996 700+ words
...professional? Does Jewish Law provide guidance and...all concerned? Does Jewish Law permit a modern definition...the bedrock source of Jewish Law. It is often referred...life." According to Jewish tradition the Torah contains 613...
- Women, Birth and Death in Jewish Law and Practice.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Shofar Alexander, Elizabeth Shanks January 1, 2006 700+ words
Women, Birth and Death in Jewish Law and Practice, by Rochelle L...women draw on and engage the Jewish tradition at the tender and momentous...interested in birth and death in the Jewish tradition. Elizabeth Shanks Alexander...
- Inheriting the crown in Jewish law; the struggle for rabbinic compensation,...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2006 700+ words
...157003608X Inheriting the crown in Jewish law; the struggle for rabbinic compensation...95 Hardcover KBM2614 While Jewish tradition holds that the ideal religious...College, Huntington, New York), Jewish law never endorsed asceticism for...
- Jewish tradition and the nontraditional Jew. (reprint, 1992).(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2006 700+ words
0876684797 Jewish tradition and the nontraditional Jew. (reprint, 1992) Ed. by Jacob J...discuss the timely-as-ever issue from historical and Halachic (Jewish law) perspectives. The bibliography includes English and Hebrew...
- J Street and the Jewish Tradition.(Conference notes)
- Newspaper article from: The Palestine Chronicle (Mountlake Terrace, WA) November 27, 2009 700+ words
...out the fact that the Occupation is advanced by zealots of Jewish law, or that rightist, neoconservative ideas are particularly...then that this desire for social improvement springs from Jewish tradition and if so, can it be redeemed by, of all things, J Street...
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