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Jewish Bioethics?

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2000
"Jewish Bioethics" as currently formulated has been criticized as being of parochial concern, drawing on obscure methodology, employing an authoritarian (and, to the modern mind, unintelligible) method of discourse and as being of little relevance to the wider community.
M, Levin, I, Birnbaum
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Jewish Bodies, Jewish Minds

Jewish Quarterly Review, 2005
In RECENT DECADES the American sense of life has fallen under the spell of matter. In realm after realm of our existence, our explanations more and more adduce material causes, particularly biological ones and economic ones. Riddles of psychology are solved with references to biol ogy, especially to genes and to Darwin; riddles of politics and interna ...
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Jewish Art, Jewish art

IMAGES, 2007
AbstractAs the Jews have always produced art, the question arises, why is the notion of a Jewish Art so problematic? No effort is made in this paper to review or summarize the arguments for or against "Jewish Art." Rather, it attempts a modest shift in the terms of the debate. The essay addresses the question by considering the historiography of Jewish
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Jewish Schools, Jewish Communities

2009
This introductory chapter discusses the growing social significance of Jewish day-school education within the context of the Jewish community. It looks more broadly at the developments within a relationship between school and community. Such questions provided the context and motivation for an international conference held in June 2006 at the Melton ...
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Jewish Studies and Jewish Ethics

Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-), 2021
ABSTRACT This essay considers the major arguments of Adam Zachary Newton’s Jewish Studies as Counterlife in light of the burgeoning subfield of Jewish ethics. Although in my view the book has a number of foundational flaws, I nevertheless see the book as contributing to a broader project in interdisciplinary critique and collaboration ...
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Jewish Institutions: Jewish Federations, Jewish Community Centers, Jewish Social Service Agencies, National Jewish Organizations, Synagogues, College Hillels, Jewish Day Schools, Jewish Overnight Camps, Jewish Museums, Holocaust Museums, Memorials and Monuments

2014
This chapter provides lists with contact information (name, address, phone number, website) for 153 Jewish Federations, 219 Jewish Community Centers, 180 Jewish Family Services, 28 Jewish Vocational Services, 46 Jewish Free Loans, 759 National Jewish organizations, 206 Jewish overnight camps, 121 Jewish museums, and 152 Holocaust museums, memorials ...
Ira Sheskin, Arnold Dashefsky
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Jewish Museums: From Jewish Icons to Jewish Narratives

European Judaism, 2003
The first Jewish museums were established in the late nineteenth century. By then, museums were coming into vogue all over Europe, with encouragement from central and local government. Furthermore, while private collections of objects of art had existed for centuries, these collections were now entering the public domain.
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Jewish Day Schools, Jewish Communities

2009
About 350,000 Jewish children are currently enrolled in Jewish day schools, in every continent other than Antarctica. This is the first book-length consideration of life in such schools and of their relationship both to the Jewish community and to society as a whole.
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Jewish culture and Jewish memory

Dialectical Anthropology, 1983
"American Jewish Culture," considered merely as a phrase, is as problematic say as "Freudian Literary Criticism," which I recall once comparing to the Holy Roman Empire: not holy, not Roman, not an empire; not Freudian, not literary, not criticism. Much that is herded together under the rubric of Ameri?
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