Contemporary Jewish ethics (Sanhedrin Jewish studies)
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General introduction : the structure of Jewish ethics / Menachem Marc Kellner -- The structure of Jewish law / David M. Feldman -- The relationship between religion and ethics in Jewish thought / Louis Jacobs -- Critique of Louis Jacobs / Sid Z. Leiman -- The revealed morality of Judaism and modern thought / Emil Fackenheim -- Revealed morality and modern thought / Norbert Samuelson -- Does Jewish tradition recognize and ethic independent of Halakha? / Aharon Lichtenstein -- The doctrine of the image of God and Imitatio Dei / David S. Shapiro -- Imitatio Dei / Martin Buber -- The self and the other in rabbinic ethics / Chaim W. Reines -- Greater love hath no man ... the Jewish point of view of self sacrifice / Louis Jacobs -- War and the Jewish tradition / Everette Gendler -- Rabbinic reflections on defying illegal orders : Amasa, Abner, and Joab / Moshe Greenberg -- After the war -- another look at pacifism and selective conscientious objection / Maurice Lamm -- Conscience and civil disobedience in the Jewish tradition / Milton R. Konvitz -- The Jewish attitude toward abortion / Fred Rosner -- Abortion and Jewish tradition / Isaac Klein -- Judaism and abortion / Balfour Brickner -- Fetal experimentation / Seymour Siegel -- Karen Ann Quinlan : a Torah perspective / J. David Bleich -- Capital punishment -- the classic Jewish discussion / Gerald J. Blidstein -- Judaism and the death penalty / Israel J. Kazis -- The ethics of business / Leo Jung -- Payment of income taxes : Halakhic guidelines / Ezra Bick -- The Jew who wasn't there : Halacha and the Jewish woman / Rachel Adler -- The status of woman within Judaism / Eliezer Berkovits -- Judaism and the modern attitude to homosexuality / Norman Lamm -- Holocaust and Halakhah / Irving J. Rosenbaum -- Jewish resistance / Alexander Donat.