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Authors: Moshe Zemer, Justice Haim Cohn, Haim H. Cohn
ISBN-13: 9781615609246, ISBN-10: 1615609245
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Date Published: February 2003
Edition: Bargain
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 |