Abortion in Judaism
Author: Daniel Schiff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-11-28
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780521521666
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The Social Justice Torah Commentary
Author: Rabbi Barry Block
Publisher: CCAR Press
Published: 2021-12-01
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0881233846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does the Torah have to say about social justice? As the contributors to The Social Justice Torah Commentary demonstrate, a great deal. A diverse array of authors delve deeply into each week's parashah, drawing lessons to inspire tikkun olam. Chapters address key contemporary issues such as racism, climate change, mass incarceration, immigration, disability, women's rights, voting rights, and many more. The result is an indispensable resource for weekly Torah study and for anyone committed to repairing the world. Published by CCAR Press, a division of the Central Conference of American Rabbis
Abortion and the Early Church
Author: Michael J. Gorman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 1998-10-26
Total Pages: 119
ISBN-13: 1579101828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is abortion? A convenience to society? A legal offense? Murder? The twentieth century is not the first to face these questions. Abortion was a common practice two thousand years ago. The young Christian church, growing up in influential centers of Greco-Roman culture, could not ignore the practice. How would church leaders define abortion? Gorman examines Christian documents in their Greco-Roman context, concluding that Christians held a consistent position throughout the church's first four hundred years.
Marital Relations, Birth Control, and Abortion in Jewish Law
Author: David Michael Feldman
Publisher: Schocken
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the true story of four walruses that were captured as babies in Alaska and raised to adulthood in an oceanarium in Southern California.
Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights
Author: Katha Pollitt
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-10-14
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0312620543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that abortion is a common part of a woman's reproductive life and should not be vilified, but instead accepted as a moral right that can be a force for social good.
Sexual Violence Against Jewish Women During the Holocaust
Author: Sonja Maria Hedgepeth
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1584659041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book in English to specifically address the sexual violation of Jewish women during the Holocaust
Birth Control in Jewish Law
Author: David Michael Feldman
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 346
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKEncyclopedia of Jewish Medical Ethics
Author: Fred Rosner
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 1290
ISBN-13: 9781583305928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEthical issues in modern medicine are of great concern and interest to all physicians and health-care providers throughout the world, as well as to the public at large. Jewish scholars and ethicists have discussed medical ethics throughout Jewish history.
Conceiving Agency
Author: Michal S. Raucher
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0253050030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women explores the ways Haredi Jewish women make decisions about their reproductive lives. Although they must contend with interference from doctors, rabbis, and the Israeli government, Haredi women find space for—and insist on—autonomy from them when they make decisions regarding the use of contraceptives, prenatal testing, fetal ultrasounds, and other reproductive practices. Drawing on their experiences of pregnancy, knowledge of cultural norms of reproduction, and theological beliefs, Raucher shows that Haredi women assert that they are in the best position to make decisions about reproduction. Conceiving Agency puts forward a new view of Haredi women acting in ways that challenge male authority and the structural hierarchies of their conservative religious tradition. Raucher asserts that Haredi women's reproductive agency is a demonstration of women's commitment to Haredi life and culture as well as an indication of how they define religious ethics.
Nurture the Wow
Author: Danya Ruttenberg
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 2016-04-19
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1250064953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA deeply affecting, funny, insightful meditation that challenges readers to find the spiritual meaning of parenting. Every day, parents are bombarded by demands. The pressures of work and life are relentless; our children’s needs are often impossible to meet; and we rarely, if ever, allow ourselves the time and attention necessary to satisfy our own inner longings. Parenthood is difficult, demanding, and draining. And yet, argues Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, if we can approach it from a different mindset, perhaps the work of parenting itself can offer the solace we seek. Rooted in Judaism but incorporating a wide-range of religious and literary traditions, Nurture the Wow asks, Can ancient ideas about relationships, drudgery, pain, devotion, and purpose help make the hard parts of a parent’s job easier and the magical stuff even more so? Ruttenberg shows how parenting can be considered a spiritual practice—and how seeing it that way can lead to transformation. This is a parenthood book, not a parenting book; it shows how the experiences we have as parents can change us for the better. Enlightening, uplifting, and laugh-out-loud funny, Nurture the Wow reveals how parenthood—in all its crazy-making, rage-inducing, awe and joy-filled moments—can actually be the path to living fully, authentically, and soulfully.
