Product Description: An essential reference work for any thinking student of religion. Innovative and provocative, Evolving Halakhah affirms the system of traditional Jewish law, Halakhah, as a developing and moral structure, flexible enough to accommodate the changing realities of each generation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Book by Eugene B. Borowitz

Product Description: This volume will provide not only new perspectives on old issues, but it will introduce new questions as well.

Product Description: More than 200 responsa offering practical guidance in all areas of life.

Product Description: Originally published in 1980, the collection of Responsa still offers relevant wisdom for today's world. This volume of Jewish questions and answers addresses such concerns as synagogue life, wedding, death, holiday observance, bio-medical ethics, and family issues...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1977, this back-in-print classic offers a historic look at the concerns of an earlier generation. The questions and answers in this book deal with issues of Jewish ritual observance, holidays, life cycle events, synagogue life, birth, death, medical ethics, abortion, and much more...read more