‘There is a Time to be Born and a Time to Die’ (Ecclesiastes 3:2a): Jewish Perspectives on Euthanasia

Reviewing the publications of prominent American rabbis who have (extensively) published on Jewish biomedical ethics, this article highlights Orthodox, Conservative and Reform opinions on a most pressing contemporary bioethical issue: euthanasia. Reviewing their opinions against the background of the halachic character of Jewish (biomedical) ethics, this article shows how from one traditional Jewish textual source diverse, even contradictory, opinions emerge through different interpretations. In this way, in the Jewish debate on euthanasia the specific methodology of Jewish (bio)ethical reasoning comes forward as well as a diversity of opinion within Judaism and its branches

Historical Knowledge in Biblical Antiquity

Includes bibliographical references and index

Religion and immigration : Christian, Jewish, and Muslim experiences in the United States

Yvone Yazbeck Haddadis professor of history of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.vii, 302 p.: ill.; 23 cm

Religion and immigration : Christian, Jewish, and Muslim experiences in the United States

Yvone Yazbeck Haddadis professor of history of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.vii, 302 p.: ill.; 23 cm