Marriage And Its Obstacles In Jewish Law
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Author | : Walter Jacob |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780929699103 |
THE FREEHOF INSTITUTE OF PROGRESSIVE HALAKHAH The Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah is a creative research center devoted to studying and defining the progressive character of the halakhah in accordance with the principles and theology of Reform Judaism. It seeks to establish the ideological basis of Progressive halakhah, and its application to daily life. The Institute fosters serious studies, and helps scholars in various portions of the world to work together for a common cause. It provides an ongoing forum through symposia, and publications including the quarterly newsletter, HalakhaH, published under the editorship of Walter Jacob, in the United States. The foremost halakhic scholars in the Reform, Liberal, and Progressive rabbinate along with some Conservative and Orthodox colleagues as well as university professors serve on our Academic Council.
Author | : Walter Jacob |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781571812391 |
Published in Association with the Solomon B. Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah General Editor: Walter Jacob+
Author | : Roberta Rosenthal Kwall |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2022-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1538163659 |
One of the most talked about books in the Jewish community when it originally appeared, Remix Judaism: Preserving Tradition in a Diverse World offers an eloquent and thoughtful new vision for all Jews seeking a sense of belonging in a changing world, regardless of their current level of observance. Roberta Kwall sets out a process of selection, rejection, and modification of rituals that allow for a focus on Jewish tradition rather than on the technicalities of Jewish law. Her goal is not to sell her own religious practices to readers but, rather, to encourage them to find their own personal meaning in Judaism outside the dictates of Commandment, by broadening their understanding of how law, culture, and tradition fit together. She inspires readers to be intentional and mindful about the space they allocate for these elements in defining their individual Jewish journeys and identities. The paperback edition includes a new preface addressing recently released findings, including the Pew Report on the American Jewish Community, exploring the challenges of practicing Judaism today.
Author | : Walter Jacob |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2003-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781571814319 |
Environmental concerns are at the top of the agenda around the world. Judaism, like the other world religions, only rarely raised issues concerning the environment in the past. This means that modern Judaism, the halakhic tradition no less than others, must build on a slim foundation in its efforts to give guidance. The essays in this volume mark the beginning of a new effort to face questions and formulate answers of vital importance.
Author | : Rochelle L. Millen |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781584653653 |
A sensitive exploration of the development of pivotal life cycle rituals as they touch Jewish women's lives.
Author | : Yehoshua November |
Publisher | : Main Street Rag |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Spiritual life |
ISBN | : 9781599482644 |
"Winner of the 2010 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award."
Author | : Marion A. Kaplan |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 025322263X |
""A Major Collection of Scholarship that Contains the most up-to-Date, Indeed Cutting-Edge Work on Gender and Jewish History by Several Generations of Top Scholars."--Atina Grossmann, the Cooper Union.
Author | : Melanie Malka Landau |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012-03-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1441139338 |
Often when people have become alienated from their religious backgrounds, they access their traditions through lifecycle events such as marriage. At times, modern values such as gender equality may be at odds with some of the traditions; many of which have always been in a state of flux in relationship to changing social, economic and political realities. Traditional Jewish marriage is based on the man acquiring the woman, which has symbolic and actual ramifications. Grounded in the traditional texts yet accessible, this book shows how the marriage is an acquisition and contextualises the gender hierarchy of marriage within the rabbinic exclusion of women from Torah study, the highest cultural practice and women's exemption from positive commandments. Melanie Landau offers two alternative models of partnership that partially or fully bypass the non-reciprocity of traditional Jewish marriage and that have their basis in the ancient rabbinic texts.
Author | : Michael J. Broyde |
Publisher | : KTAV Publishing House, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780881256789 |
One of the most vexing problems to confront American Orthodox Jewry is where a wife is abandoned by her husband who refuses to give her a Jewish divorce. This work seeks to explain the agunah problem in the United States. It notes that the contemporary agunah problem in America is radically different than that of contemporary Israel and completely different than the talmudic agunah problem. The thesis of this book is that the agunah problem in contemporary America is part of a more general dispute in classical Jewish law as to when marriage should end. Thus, this book surveys how Jewish law seeks to respond to the consent of the other party or without a finding of fault. It concludes by noting that prenuptial agreements can successfully address the agunah problem in the United States since they provide a way for couples to create an image of marriage and divorce by which they can agree to live. Michael J. Broyde is an Associate Professor of Law at Emory University and the Academic Director of Law and Religion Program at Emory University. He is a member (dayan) in the Beth Din of America and was the director of that Beth Din while on sabbatical from Emory. In addition, he is the founding rabbi of the Young Israel synagogue in Atlanta. Professor Broyde is the author of The Pursuit of Justice in Jewish Law and co-author of Human Rights in Judaism.--Amazon.com.
Author | : Judith Hauptman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2019-04-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429966202 |
Fully acknowledging that Judaism, as described in both the Bible and the Talmud, was patriarchal, Judith Hauptman demonstrates that the rabbis of the Talmud made significant changes in key areas of Jewish law in order to benefit women. Reading the texts with feminist sensibilities, recognizing that they were written by men and for men and that the