Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0203
Hoffman
Judaism has been defined as many things: “religion,” “culture,” “ethnicity,” “race,” “nation,” and (for Mordecai Kaplan) “civilization.” Each definition, including Kaplan’s, poses ethical challenges by positing explicitly (or implicitly) a hierarchical ordering where Judaism is “religiously true,” “culturally advanced,” or otherwise “better than” other religions. This article therefore suggests reconceiving Judaism as a “conversation,” a more expansive term with no ethical hierarchy, and (as it happens) fully congruent with human nature, in that human beings are not so much “rational creatures” (Aristotle), “religious creatures” (Eliade), or “working creatures” (Marx), as they are “conversational creatures.” It further introduces the concept “cultural caricature” to project ultimate ethical outcomes of the various definitions (e.g., the caricature of “ethnicity” is “ethnic cleansing”). The caricature of “conversation” is a Museum of the Human Condition, where each religious tradition gets its own room and where religious adherents meet in the corridors to converse together—what we nowadays call interfaith dialogue.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0224
Newman, Messinger, Waxman, Kennebrae
These reflections on the ethics of Jewish communal leadership unite a scholarly examination with three personal narratives from the field. Anchoring the discussion is an argument for leadership grounded in four core virtues: anavah (humility), kavod (respect), yosher (integrity), and spiritual orientation. Three Jewish communal leaders highlight ethical quandaries and imperatives they confront in their work. One calls for the cultivation of moral courage. The others explore the tension between personal identity and public representation and the ethical imperative for the Jewish community to confront gender bias and racism.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0282
Cohen
{"title":"Eliezer Yehudah Waldenberg, Hilchot Medina, “Incarceration in prison and its definitions, and the punishment of exile”","authors":"Cohen","doi":"10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0282","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49295517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0135
Waxman
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0195
Spitzer
Religious ethics are undergirded by theology, but the assumption of a commanding God of Sinai is deeply problematic for Reconstructionist Judaism. This article draws on cognitive linguistics and Lakoff and Johnson’s theory of metaphor to explore two biblical metaphors for God: GOD IS WATER, and GOD IS VOICE. These two metaphors provide theological grounding for a non-authoritarian Jewish ethics.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0164
Ellenson
Critics charge that the humanistic views expressed by the founders of Israel through its Declaration of Independence have been diminished and that an antidemocratic virus has taken root in the State in recent years. Examination of Megillat Ha'atzmaut, the Israeli Declaration of Independence; the debates that swirled around it at the formation of the state; and the concurrent views of Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog on the issue of Israel as a democratic state reveals that these disagreements about the character of Israel as being both “Jewish and democratic” are rooted in ideological positions present in Israel's first years. A failure to resolve them so that democratic values can be affirmed remains an ongoing challenge to the nation.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0184
Zimmerman
This article argues that as American Jewish support for Israel wanes American Jews need a new Jewish ethical framework in which to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It extends the discourse beyond a Jewish narrative and examines the values of empathy and responsibility toward Palestinians, as well as the importance of recognizing historical injustices perpetrated by Israel. This article draws on the work of scholars and discusses their ideas in conjunction with the author's experiences as a congregational rabbi. It evaluates the dual-narrative approach and then focuses on the work of Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg to explore how narratives such as me-shoah le-tekumah, from the destruction of the Holocaust to the rebirth of Israel, can lead American Jews to view the Palestinian experience as entirely separate from their own.
本文认为，随着美国犹太人对以色列的支持减弱，美国犹太人需要一个新的犹太伦理框架来理解以巴冲突。它将话语扩展到犹太叙事之外，并审视了对巴勒斯坦人的同情和责任的价值观，以及承认以色列犯下的历史不公正的重要性。本文借鉴了学者的工作，并结合作者作为会众拉比的经历讨论了他们的想法。它评估了双重叙事方法，然后重点关注巴希尔·巴希尔和阿莫斯·戈德堡的作品，探讨从大屠杀的毁灭到以色列的重生，诸如me shoah le tekumah这样的叙事如何引导美国犹太人将巴勒斯坦的经历视为与他们自己的经历完全分离。
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jjewiethi.7.1-2.0106
Henning
{"title":"From Medical Halakha to Jewish Bioethics","authors":"Henning","doi":"10.5325/jjewiethi.7.1-2.0106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jjewiethi.7.1-2.0106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Ethics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70847143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.5325/jjewiethi.7.1-2.0001
Green
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