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Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices

Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices

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by Elliot N. Dorff and Louis E. Newman
Paperback
Publication Date: 31/03/2008

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This JPS ethics series deals with some of the most critical moral issues of our time.

What are our obligations and rights to our own bodies? What does Judaism say about tattoos? Piercings? About our obligations to exercise and eat properly? What about smoking? Alcohol? Recreational drugs? Who owns our organs? What about our eggs and sperm? If resources are limited, whose body comes first and how do we decide? Why do so many young Jews suffer from eating disorders?

Each volume in this series presents traditional and contemporary sources on specific topics, followed by hypothetical cases and study questions to provoke discussion. Supplementing these are brief essays written by a diverse group-political figures and journalists, business professionals and authors, scholars and artists, young voices and old, traditional believers and iconoclasts. As a conclusion, Dorff and Newman present their own reflections, providing a counterpoint to the contributors' perspectives. These voices from the Jewish tradition and today's Jewish community give us new questions and perspectives to think about and encourage us to consider our moral choices in a new light. Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices takes a hard look at important and controversial topics of our time. Future volumes include Power; War and National Security; Sexual Relations; and The Internet.
ISBN:
9780827608603
9780827608603
Category:
Jewish studies
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
31-03-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Jewish Publication Society
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
160
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x8mm
Weight:
0.21kg

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