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Authors: Moshe Zemer, Justice Haim Cohn, Haim H. Cohn
ISBN-13: 9781580231275, ISBN-10: 1580231276
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Date Published: February 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Moshe Zemer

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	Acknowledgements
	Foreword
	Introduction
I	Foundations	1
Ch. 1	Halakhah as an Evolving Ethical System	3
Ch. 2	Maimonides and the "Lesser Evil"	23
Ch. 3	The Essence of Evolving Halakhah	37
II	Marriage and Divorce	59
Ch. 4	Yibbum and Halitzah	61
Ch. 5	Marriages Forbidden to a Kohen	73
Ch. 6	Mamzerut (Halakhic Illegitimacy)	87
Ch. 7	Marriage Blacklists: "All Families Are Presumed to Be Fit"	113
III	Conversion	121
Ch. 8	Rabbi Goren's Reform Conversion	125
Ch. 9	Ambivalence about Conversion	143
Ch. 10	Disqualifying Jews from India to Ethiopia	157
Ch. 11	You Shall Not Oppress the Stranger	171
IV	The State of Israel and Gentiles	177
Ch. 12	The Sabra and Shatilla Massacre	181
Ch. 13	Demolishing Houses in the Territories: A Halakhic Perspective	187
Ch. 14	Halakhah and the Intifada	193
Ch. 15	The Attitude toward the Enemy	205
Ch. 16	Ransoming Captives	225
Ch. 17	"Halakhic" Justifications for Murder	231
V	The Status of Women	239
Ch. 18	Is a Woman Permitted to Hold a Public Position?	241
Ch. 19	Women and Service in the Israel Defense Forces	249
Ch. 20	A "Women's Gallery" in the Cemetery	255
Ch. 21	Delaying a Funeral Until the Daughter of the Deceased Arrives	261
Ch. 22	The Right of Women to Say Kaddish	265
Ch. 23	Is a Woman's Voice Sexually Enticing?	275
VI	The Ultra-Orthodox	281
Ch. 24	Desecrating the Sabbath in Order to Sanctify It	283
Ch. 25	Religious Violence against a Progressive Congregation	291
Ch. 26	The Cult of the Newly Ultra-Orthodox	295
Ch. 27	Religious Tolerance among Jews: A Critique of Rulings by Rabbi Moshe Feinstein	301
Ch. 28	Archaeology as a Mitzvah	313
Ch. 29	Circumcising a Corpse	317
VII	Medicine	321
Ch. 30	A Dialogue on Autopsies	323
Ch. 31	Abortion Is Not Murder	335
Ch. 32	Artificial Insemination	339
Ch. 33	To Smoke or Not to Smoke: A Jewish Question	345
Ch. 34	"It Is Forbidden to Delay Death"	351
VII	Burial	357
Ch. 35	For the Sake of Peace	359
Ch. 36	Burial and Superstition	373
	Afterword	377
	Bibliography	379
	Notes	391
	Index	429
	About Jewish Lights	441

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