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Progressive halakhah : essence and application / edited by Walter Jacob and Moshe Zemer.
LIBRA KBM524.32 .P76 1991
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in progressive halakhah ; v. 1.
- Studies in progressive halakhah ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish law--Interpretation and construction--Congresses.
- Jewish law.
- Jewish law--Reform Judaism--Congresses.
- Law--Israel--Jewish influences--Congresses.
- Law.
- Jewish law--Interpretation and construction.
- Jewish law--Reform Judaism.
- Law--Jewish influences.
- Israel.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Physical Description:
- 148 pages ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Dynamic Jewish law
- Place of Publication:
- Tel Aviv : Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah ; Pittsburgh : Rodef Shalom Press, 1991.
- Summary:
- The papers in this book were prepared for the Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah. The include "Jewish Law in Israel" by Haim Cohen, "Reform Responsa and Liberal Halakhah" by W. Gunther Plaut, and "Halakhah and Sex Ethics" by Hyam Maccoby.
- Contents:
- Introduction.
- Authority and criteria in liberal halakhah / Moshe Zemer.
- The search for liberal halakhah / Mark Washofsky.
- Pesikah and American Reform responsa / Walter Jacob.
- Reform responsa and liberal halakhah / W. Gunther Plaut.
- Between antinomianism and Conservatism / John D. Rayner.
- Halakhah and sex ethics / Hyam Maccoby.
- Notes:
- Product of a colloquium held in London, May 1990.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0929699033
- 9780929699035
- OCLC:
- 27080059
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