Kashrut and Jewish Food Ethics / Shmuly Yanklowitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yanklowitz, Shmuly, Editor.

Series:

Jewish Thought, Jewish History: New Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Dietary laws.

Jews.

Kosher food industry.

Jewish ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages).

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Since the turn of the millennium, rapid advances in technology, globalized markets, and atomized politics instigated in the American and Israeli Jewish communities questions about the morals of food consumption. Contemporary issues such as workers' rights, animal welfare, environmental protection, among others, intersect with basic Jewish food ethics: while Jewish communities respect ancient laws, they also appreciate the importance of progress and look forward to a more repaired world. In these pages, readers will have the unique opportunity to delve into the minds of the brightest Modern Orthodox thinkers of the current generation. The contributions contained in Kashrut & Jewish Food Ethics by members of the progressive Orthodox Jewish association Torat Chayim are rich in detail and offer new paradigms for the practical observance of kashrut that have swirled in the ether for generations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

SECTION 1: Kashrut Dynamics

CHAPTER 1. On the Ethics and Politics of Kosher Food Supervision / Leibowitz, Rabbi Aaron

CHAPTER 2. Are You Really Eating Kosher? On Camouflage, Hypocrisy, and Hiding Behind the Kashrut Laws / Cardozo, Nathan Lopes

CHAPTER 3. Milk and Meat / Cardozo, Nathan

SECTION 2. Bridging Kashrut with Ethical & Spiritual Concerns

CHAPTER 1. The Moral Underpinnings of Kashrut Rabbi / Yanklowitz, Shmuly

CHAPTER 2. Eating Our Way from Holiness to Justice / Kasher, David

CHAPTER 3. Increasing Holiness in Life / Greenberg, Irving (Yitz)

SECTION 3. Spirituality of Eating

CHAPTER 1. Eating as a Sacrament- The Eating Table and the Coffin / Sperber, Daniel

CHAPTER 2. Food for Thought / Mayse, Ariel Evan

CHAPTER 3. Holy Eating in Jewish Thought and Practice / Shafner, Rabbi Hyim

CHAPTER 4. Too Much of Everything is Just Enough / Jaffe, Rabbi David

SECTION 4. Health & Consumption

CHAPTER 1. Towards a Jewish Nutrition Ethic / Goodman, Daniel R.

CHAPTER 2. Why Are We So Hungry? Our Betrayal of Eating, Being Satisfied and Blessing and The Way Back / Landes, Rabbi Daniel

CHAPTER 3. Your Grains, Your Grape Juice, and Your Oil / Lopatin, Rabbi Asher

SECTION 5. Worker Rights, Equality, & Hunger

CHAPTER 1. The Divine Image / Mayse, Ariel Evan

CHAPTER 2. Judaism and The Crisis of the Rural Village in the Global South / Odenheimer, Rabbi Micha

CHAPTER 3 Let Them Have a Little Bread / Gitler, Rabbi Marc

SECTION 6. Animal Welfare

CHAPTER 1. םייח ילעב רעצ יניינעב הבושת / Bigman, Rabbi David

CHAPTER 2. Animal Suffering and the Rhetoric of Values and Halakhah / Linzer, Rabbi Dov

CHAPTER 3. The Commandments Were Only Given for the Purpose of Refining People / Rosen, David

CHAPTER 4. The Case for Limiting Meat Consumption to Shabbat, Holidays, and Celebrations / Potek, Rabbi Aaron

SECTION 7. Environmentalism, Conservation, and GMOs

CHAPTER 1. Ethical Eating and the Impact on Our Environment / Gottlieb, Mel

CHAPTER 2. Humanity and the Tree of the Field / Najman, Rosh Kehillah Dina

CHAPTER 3. Divine Wisdom or Altering Creation? A Torah Perspective on GMOs / Greenberg, Rabbi Gabe

Conclusion / Yanklowitz, Shmuly

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)

ISBN:

1-61811-904-4

OCLC:

1048659435