Pamela Barmash

Modern Responsa

An Anthology of Jewish Ethical and Ritual Decisions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Modern Responsa, an original anthology of Jewish ethical and ritual decision-making by rabbinic authoritiesâ men and women, across movements (Conservative, Orthodox, Reform), geographic locales, and ethnicities (Ashkenazic, Sefardic, Mizra?i)â illuminates how Judaismâ s legal tradition is applied to real-life issues.

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Produktdetails

• JPS Anthologies of Jewish Thought
• Verlag: Jewish Publication Society
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9780827615588
• ISBN-10: 0827615582
• Artikelnr.: 69722164

Autorenporträt

Pamela Barmash is a rabbi and a professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew at Washington University in St. Louis, as well as chair of the Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. She is the author of Homicide in the Biblical World and The Laws of Hammurabi: At the Confluence of Royal and Scribal Traditions.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction: Understanding Responsa How to Use This Book Notes on Translation 1. Personal and Business Ethics Text 1.1. Cardin and Reisner, “On the Mitzvah of Sustainability” Text 1.2. Leff, “Whistleblowing: The Requirement to Report Employer Wrongdoing” Text 1.3. Weiss, “About Commercial Encroachment” Text 1.4. Somekh and Al-
akam, “On Commerce in the Markets of Malabar” Text 1.5. Barmash, “Veal Calves” 2. Ritual Text 2.1. Sofer, “On Using the Vernacular in Prayer” Text 2.2. Halevi, “What Are the Chances That Our Prayers Are Answered by God?” Text 2.3. ccar Responsa Committee, “A Sex Offender in the Synagogue” 3. Personal Status Text 3.1. Oshry, “The Case of a Mamzer Rabbi” Text 3.2. Spitz, “Mamzerut” Text 3.3. Mesas, “A Pesak Din in a Matter of Mamzerut” Text 3.4. ccar Responsa Committee, “Patrilineal and Matrilineal Descent” Text 3.5. Yosef, “On the Status of Ethiopian Jews” Text 3.6. Barmash, “The Status of the
eresh [Deaf Mute] and of Sign Language” 4. Women Text 4.1. Lauterbach, “Shall Women Be Ordained Rabbis?” Text 4.2. Herzog, “Takkanot on Marriage and Yibbum” Text 4.3. Roness, “When Staining Renders a Woman Niddah” Text 4.4. Rembaum, “Regarding the Inclusion of the Names of the Matriarchs in the First Blessing of the Amidah” Text 4.5. Barmash, “Women and Mitzvot” 5. lgbtqia+ Text 5.1. Roth, “Homosexuality” Text 5.2. Dorff, Nevins, and Reisner, “Homosexuality, Human Dignity and Halakhah” Text 5.3. ccar Responsa Committee, “Same-Sex Marriage as Kiddushin” Text 5.4. Sharzer, “Transgender Jews and Halakhah” 6. Medical Ethics Text 6.1. Sternbuch, “A Woman Suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease Whose Husband Wishes to Divorce Her” Text 6.2. Mevorakh, “Eating on Yom Kippur When a Person Is Suffering from an Eating Disorder (Anorexia)” Text 6.3. Waldenberg, “On Abortion in General” Text 6.4. Waldenberg, “On the Abortion of a Fetus with Tay-Sachs Disease” Text 6.5. Grossman, ‘“Partial Birth Abortion’ and the Question of When Human Life Begins” 7. The covid-19 Pandemic Text 7.1. Co-chairs, Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, “Halakhic Guidance from cjls about Coronavirus” Text 7.2. ccar Responsa Committee, “Virtual Minyan in Time of covid-19 Emergency” Text 7.3. Iggud
akhmei ha-Ma’arav be-Eretz Yisrael, “On a Seder via Zoom” Text 7.4. Schachter, “Washing on Tisha b’Av” and “Regarding the Rule of ‘God Protects the Simple’” Text 7.5. Barmash, “Ethics of Gathering When Not All of Us May Attend in Person” 8. Relationships with the Other Text 8.1. Shapira, “Engaging in a Public Fast in Sympathy with German Jews” Text 8.2. Weinberg, “On the Burial of a Person Converted by Liberal Rabbis” Text 8.3. Halevi, “Transcendental Meditation” Text 8.4. Hirsch and Rapport, “Yoga as a Jewish Worship Practice: Chukat Hagoyim or Spiritual Innovation?” Text 8.5. Hammer, “The Status of Non-Jews in Jewish Law and Lore Today” 9. The Modern State of Israel Text 9.1. Goren, “The Siege on Beirut in Light of Halakhah” Text 9.2. Halevi, “The Law of ‘the One Who Comes Forth to Kill You, Kill Him First’ in Our State Affairs” Text 9.3. Friedman, “A Responsum on the Issue of ‘the Greater Land of Israel’ and Halakhah” Text 9.4. Yosef, “Ceding Territory from the Land of Israel When There Is Pikku’ä Nefesh” Text 9.5. Yisraeli, “Ceding Territory because of Pikku’ä Nefesh” 10. Life in the United States Text 10.1. Committee on Responsa of the Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities, “Responsa in War Time” Text 10.2. Feinstein, “American Thanksgiving” Text 10.3. Kalmanofsky, “Participating in the American Death Penalty” Source Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Index