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Jewish Religious Law : A Progressive Perspective / John D. Rayner.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Progressive Judaism Today ; 3Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [1998]Copyright date: 1998Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781800735880
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296.4/7 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- GLOSSARY -- THE PERSPECTIVE -- Chapter 1 PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM -- Chapter 2 PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE HOLOCAUST -- A PROGRESSIVE APPROACH TO HALACHAH -- Chapter 3 HALACHAH AND AGGADAH Law and Lore in Judaism -- Chapter 4 THE NEED FOR A NEW APPROACH TO HALACHAH -- Chapter 5 RETHINKING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HALACHAH -- Chapter 6 TOWARDS A PROGRESSIVE HALACHAH -- Chapter 7 BETWEEN ANTINOMIANISM AND CONSERVATISM -- Chapter 8 A GENUINELY PROGRESSIVE HALACHAH -- SOME HALACHIC PROBLEMS -- Chapter 9 PRAYING WITH KAVVANAH -- Chapter 10 THE LANGUAGE OF PRAYER -- Chapter 11 THE POSTURE OF PRAYER -- Chapter 12 WOMEN AND WORSHIP -- Chapter 13 ON SEEING HALLEY'S COMET -- Chapter 14 RETURNING A SCROLL TO ITS DONOR -- Chapter 15 RECYCLING OLD PRAYERBOOKS -- Chapter 16 MEDICAL CONFIDENTIALITY -- Chapter 17 ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION -- Chapter 18 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH -- Chapter 19 EUTHANASIA -- Chapter 20 BURIAL OF PROGRESSIVE PROSELYTE IN ORTHODOX CEMETERY -- Chapter 21 JEWISH IDENTITY -- Chapter 22 CONCEPTION AND CONTRACEPTION -- Chapter 23 FROM UNILATERALISM TO RECIPROCITY A Short History of Jewish Divorce -- Chapter 24 THE LAND, THE LAW AND THE LIBERAL CONSCIENCE -- NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Summary: This is the first major work on the interrelationship between Liberal Judaism and Rabbinic Law (Halachah) ever to have been produced in Britain, and in Europe since the nineteenth century. It represents a plea for a positive yet forthrightly critical approach to Rabbinic Law in general aswell as to a variety of specific topics such as the language of prayer, the status of women, medical confidentiality, euthanasia, Jewish identity, contraception, divorce, and Jewish territorial rights in Palestine/Israel.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- GLOSSARY -- THE PERSPECTIVE -- Chapter 1 PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM -- Chapter 2 PROGRESSIVE JUDAISM FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE HOLOCAUST -- A PROGRESSIVE APPROACH TO HALACHAH -- Chapter 3 HALACHAH AND AGGADAH Law and Lore in Judaism -- Chapter 4 THE NEED FOR A NEW APPROACH TO HALACHAH -- Chapter 5 RETHINKING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HALACHAH -- Chapter 6 TOWARDS A PROGRESSIVE HALACHAH -- Chapter 7 BETWEEN ANTINOMIANISM AND CONSERVATISM -- Chapter 8 A GENUINELY PROGRESSIVE HALACHAH -- SOME HALACHIC PROBLEMS -- Chapter 9 PRAYING WITH KAVVANAH -- Chapter 10 THE LANGUAGE OF PRAYER -- Chapter 11 THE POSTURE OF PRAYER -- Chapter 12 WOMEN AND WORSHIP -- Chapter 13 ON SEEING HALLEY'S COMET -- Chapter 14 RETURNING A SCROLL TO ITS DONOR -- Chapter 15 RECYCLING OLD PRAYERBOOKS -- Chapter 16 MEDICAL CONFIDENTIALITY -- Chapter 17 ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION -- Chapter 18 A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH -- Chapter 19 EUTHANASIA -- Chapter 20 BURIAL OF PROGRESSIVE PROSELYTE IN ORTHODOX CEMETERY -- Chapter 21 JEWISH IDENTITY -- Chapter 22 CONCEPTION AND CONTRACEPTION -- Chapter 23 FROM UNILATERALISM TO RECIPROCITY A Short History of Jewish Divorce -- Chapter 24 THE LAND, THE LAW AND THE LIBERAL CONSCIENCE -- NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

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This is the first major work on the interrelationship between Liberal Judaism and Rabbinic Law (Halachah) ever to have been produced in Britain, and in Europe since the nineteenth century. It represents a plea for a positive yet forthrightly critical approach to Rabbinic Law in general aswell as to a variety of specific topics such as the language of prayer, the status of women, medical confidentiality, euthanasia, Jewish identity, contraception, divorce, and Jewish territorial rights in Palestine/Israel.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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