{"product_id":"modern-responsa-an-anthology-of-jewish-ethical-and-ritual-decisions-paperback-softback-9780827615588","title":"Modern Responsa; An Anthology of Jewish Ethical and Ritual Decisions (Paperback \/ softback) 9780827615588","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eModern Responsa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Anthology of Jewish Ethical and Ritual Decisions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePamela Barmash (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780827615588\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e412 pages, 1 glossary, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.634 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eModern Responsa\u003c\/i\u003e should be on the shelves of synagogues, Jewish community centers, universities and individual homes. It would be a splendid gift for a bar or \u003ci\u003ebat mitzvah\u003c\/i\u003e and other important markers in individual Jewish life journeys.\"-Mindy C. Reiser, Association of Jewish Libraries\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“An exemplary achievement-an original, sophisticated, topical, and accessible contribution to the field of Jewish law in general and the responsa literature in particular.”-Rabbi David Ellenson, chancellor emeritus, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The brilliance of \u003ci\u003eModern Responsa\u003c\/i\u003e’s idea and structure is matched only by the author’s skill in executing it. Barmash enables readers to experience the range of Jewish approaches to profound moral questions-and our tradition’s ability to respond to changing circumstances.”-Rabbi Jan Uhrbach, associate editor of \u003ci\u003eSiddur Lev Shalem for Shabbat and Festivals\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A splendid book by a master educator offering broad, brilliant insight into Jewish society and different types of Jewish legal thinking.”-Marc Zvi Brettler, Bernice and Morton Lerner Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, Duke University\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAn original anthology of modern responsa (Jewish ethical and ritual decision-making) by rabbinic authorities, men and women, across movements (Conservative, Orthodox, Reform), geographic locales, and ethnicities (Ashkenazic, Sefardic, Mizraḥi), \u003ci\u003eModern Responsa\u003c\/i\u003e engages readers in understanding how rabbis expert in Jewish law apply principles, precedents, and rules from Judaism’s legal tradition to real-life issues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Responsa on ten topics-personal and business ethics, ritual, personal status, women, LGBTQIA+ people, medical ethics, the COVID-19 pandemic, relationships with the other, the modern State of Israel, and Jewish life in the United States-showcase how the rabbinic decisors who wrote them handle modern quandaries for their communities. Pamela Barmash’s translations open up most of these original Hebrew texts to English-speaking readers for the first time. Sometimes the decisors disagree-but other times they rule similarly, despite differing ideological commitments. Clear explanations of how the decisors build their arguments along with historical background, decisor biographies, implications, and a glossary enable general adult and teen readers as well as scholars to grasp the finer points of Jewish ethical and ritual decision-making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eModern Responsa\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the dynamic nature of Jewish law, the creativity of Jewish legal writings, and the multidimensionality of the Jewish experience in modernity.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Understanding Responsa\u003cbr\u003e How to Use This Book\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Translation\u003cbr\u003e 1. Personal and Business Ethics\u003cbr\u003e Text 1.1. Cardin and Reisner, “\u003cbr\u003eOn the Mitzvah of Sustainability”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 1.2. Leff, “\u003cbr\u003eWhistleblowing: The Requirement to Report Employer Wrongdoing”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 1.3. Weiss, “\u003cbr\u003eAbout Commercial Encroachment”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 1.4. Somekh and Al-Ḥakam, “\u003cbr\u003eOn Commerce in the Markets of Malabar”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 1.5. Barmash, “\u003cbr\u003eVeal Calves”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Ritual\u003cbr\u003e Text 2.1. Sofer, “\u003cbr\u003eOn Using the Vernacular in Prayer”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 2.2. Halevi, “\u003cbr\u003eWhat Are the Chances That Our Prayers Are Answered by God?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 2.3. ccar Responsa Committee, “\u003cbr\u003eA Sex Offender in the Synagogue”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Personal Status\u003cbr\u003e Text 3.1. Oshry, “\u003cbr\u003eThe Case of a Mamzer Rabbi”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 3.2. Spitz, “\u003cbr\u003eMamzerut”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 3.3. Mesas, “\u003cbr\u003eA Pesak Din in a Matter of Mamzerut”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 3.4. ccar Responsa Committee, “\u003cbr\u003ePatrilineal and Matrilineal Descent”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 3.5. Yosef, “\u003cbr\u003eOn the Status of Ethiopian Jews”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 3.6. Barmash, “\u003cbr\u003eThe Status of the Ḥeresh [Deaf Mute] and of Sign Language”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Women\u003cbr\u003e Text 4.1. Lauterbach, “\u003cbr\u003eShall Women Be Ordained Rabbis?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 4.2. Herzog, “\u003cbr\u003eTakkanot on Marriage and Yibbum”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 4.3. Roness, “\u003cbr\u003eWhen Staining Renders a Woman Niddah”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 4.4. Rembaum, “\u003cbr\u003eRegarding the Inclusion of the Names of the Matriarchs in the First Blessing of the Amidah”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 4.5. Barmash, “\u003cbr\u003eWomen and Mitzvot”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. lgbtqia+\u003cbr\u003e Text 5.1. Roth, “\u003cbr\u003eHomosexuality”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 5.2. Dorff, Nevins, and Reisner, “\u003cbr\u003eHomosexuality, Human Dignity and Halakhah”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 5.3. ccar Responsa Committee, “\u003cbr\u003eSame-Sex Marriage as Kiddushin”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 5.4. Sharzer, “\u003cbr\u003eTransgender Jews and Halakhah”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Medical Ethics\u003cbr\u003e Text 6.1. Sternbuch, “\u003cbr\u003eA Woman Suffering from Alzheimer’\u003cbr\u003es Disease Whose Husband Wishes to Divorce Her”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 6.2. Mevorakh, “\u003cbr\u003eEating on Yom Kippur When a Person Is Suffering from an Eating Disorder (Anorexia)”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 6.3. Waldenberg, “\u003cbr\u003eOn Abortion in General”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 6.4. Waldenberg, “\u003cbr\u003eOn the Abortion of a Fetus with Tay-Sachs Disease”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 6.5. Grossman, ‘\u003cbr\u003e“\u003cbr\u003ePartial Birth Abortion’\u003cbr\u003e and the Question of When Human Life Begins”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. The covid-19 Pandemic\u003cbr\u003e Text 7.1. Co-chairs, Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, “\u003cbr\u003eHalakhic Guidance from cjls about Coronavirus”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 7.2. ccar Responsa Committee, “\u003cbr\u003eVirtual Minyan in Time of covid-19 Emergency”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 7.3. Iggud Ḥakhmei ha-Ma’\u003cbr\u003earav be-Eretz Yisrael, “\u003cbr\u003eOn a Seder via Zoom”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 7.4. Schachter, “\u003cbr\u003eWashing on Tisha b’\u003cbr\u003eAv”\u003cbr\u003e and “\u003cbr\u003eRegarding the Rule of ‘\u003cbr\u003eGod Protects the Simple’\u003cbr\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 7.5. Barmash, “\u003cbr\u003eEthics of Gathering When Not All of Us May Attend in Person”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Relationships with the Other\u003cbr\u003e Text 8.1. Shapira, “\u003cbr\u003eEngaging in a Public Fast in Sympathy with German Jews”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 8.2. Weinberg, “\u003cbr\u003eOn the Burial of a Person Converted by Liberal Rabbis”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 8.3. Halevi, “\u003cbr\u003eTranscendental Meditation”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 8.4. Hirsch and Rapport, “\u003cbr\u003eYoga as a Jewish Worship Practice: Chukat Hagoyim or Spiritual Innovation?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 8.5. Hammer, “\u003cbr\u003eThe Status of Non-Jews in Jewish Law and Lore Today”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Modern State of Israel\u003cbr\u003e Text 9.1. Goren, “\u003cbr\u003eThe Siege on Beirut in Light of Halakhah”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 9.2. Halevi, “\u003cbr\u003eThe Law of ‘\u003cbr\u003ethe One Who Comes Forth to Kill You, Kill Him First’\u003cbr\u003e in Our State Affairs”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 9.3. Friedman, “\u003cbr\u003eA Responsum on the Issue of ‘\u003cbr\u003ethe Greater Land of Israel’\u003cbr\u003e and Halakhah”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 9.4. Yosef, “\u003cbr\u003eCeding Territory from the Land of Israel When There Is Pikku’\u003cbr\u003eaḥ Nefesh”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 9.5. Yisraeli, “\u003cbr\u003eCeding Territory because of Pikku’\u003cbr\u003eaḥ Nefesh”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Life in the United States\u003cbr\u003e Text 10.1. Committee on Responsa of the Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities, “\u003cbr\u003eResponsa in War Time”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 10.2. Feinstein, “\u003cbr\u003eAmerican Thanksgiving”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Text 10.3. Kalmanofsky, “\u003cbr\u003eParticipating in the American Death Penalty”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Source Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Glossary\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The Jewish Publication Society","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685568770328,"sku":"9780827615588","price":28.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/modern-responsa-an-anthology-of-jewish-ethical-and-ritual-decisions-paperback-softback-9780827615588","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}