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From Moses to Moses [PDF]

Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2010
(Extract) Let us begin with a thought experiment. What would Judaism look like today had Maimonides not lived? Had he not created the first systematic and comprehensive code of Jewish law (Mishneh Torah) would his successors in that project, R.
Menachem Kellner
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The Halakhic Heartbeat at the Edge of Life: Navigating Maternal Brain Death and Fetal Life [PDF]

Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal
This paper presents a halakhic-ethical analysis of a 2025 case involving A.S., a brain-dead pregnant woman who was maintained on somatic support to enable fetal maturation and delivery. The case raises profound questions at the intersection of Jewish law
John D. Loike, Tzvi Flaum, Alan Kadish
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Pragmatism and Theology: Between Hasdai Crescas and Charles Peirce

Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 232-254, April 2023., 2023
Abstract The noted Jewish scholar Harry Wolfson (d. 1929) claimed in youthful writings that the fifteenth‐century rabbinic thinker and physicist, Hasdai Crescas, was a pragmatist. This essay introduces evidence that there are, indeed, significant analogies between elements of Hasdai Crescas’s critique of Aristotle and elements of Charles Peirce’s ...
Peter Ochs
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The tension between state ownership and private quasi‐property rights in water

WIREs Water, Volume 10, Issue 1, January/February 2023., 2023
Increasingly, water regimes end up granting quasi‐property rights to actors, which may hinder states to adaptively govern water governance. Abstract A critical legal issue in water governance is who owns and who holds property rights in water. Hence, we address the question: How has the state of legal knowledge on private property rights in water ...
Hilmer J. Bosch, Joyeeta Gupta
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Yidishe tates forming Jewish families

Nordisk Judaistik, 2020
Jewish communities often do not endorse the idea of intermarriage, and Orthodox Judaism opposes the idea of marrying out. Intermarriage is often perceived as a threat that may jeopardise Jewish continuity as children of such a relationship may not ...
Mercédesz Viktória Czimbalmos
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Jewish Theology and its Sources: A Review Essay

, 2023
Modern Theology, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 327-331, April 2023.
Devorah Schoenfeld
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Ritual Studies and the Study of Rabbinic Literature [PDF]

, 2017
In the last two decades several important studies have been published that focus on ritual in rabbinic literature, and consider ritual to be a critically important conceptual and analytical category in approaching rabbinic texts and rabbinic culture ...
Balberg, Mira
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Philosophical Ruminations about Embryo Experimentation with Reference to Reproductive Technologies in Jewish “Halakhah” [PDF]

, 2017
The use of modern medical technologies and interventions involves ethical and legal dilemmas which are yet to be solved. For the religious Jews the answer lies in Halakhah.
Mitra, Piyali
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Not Judging by Appearances: The Role of Genotype in Jewish Law on Intersex Conditions [PDF]

, 2012
Jewish communities have always had children with intersex conditions, which involve atypical anatomic, chromosomal, or gonadal sex. In the last several decades, Orthodox rabbis have issued ad hoc rulings to assign sex to children and adults with intersex
Hillel Gray
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Industry or Holy Vocation? When Shehitah and Kashrut Entered the Public Sphere in the United States during the Age of Reform

Religions, 2018
Long before the Agriprocessors scandal, the question of whether secular law and social concerns should shape the halakhah surrounding kosher meat production has been a live issue in the United States.
Susan Breitzer
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