Contemporary Halakhic Problems : Volume #2

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This series, an outstanding example of the traditional approach to the halakhah, deals with the application of Jewish law to contemporary social, political, technological and religious problems. Chapters in these volumes are devoted to questions of personal and social status, the State of Israel, the Sabbath and Holy Days, medical halakhah, education and business law. Major issues such as assisted procreation, abortion, fetal tissue research, the agunah problem, intermarriage, conversion, the role of the Bet Din, capital punishment, preemptive warfare and many, many more are analyzed in detail. Many of these topics have been matters of heated controversy within the Jewish community. The author, a distinguished talmudic scholar and halakhist, has culled relevant material from the vast responsa literature. He examines each question by carefully delineating the issues, showing the various positions taken by rabbinic scholars, clarifying areas of divergence and analyzing the reasons for disagreement. This work is an invaluable source book for all students of traditional Jewish law and practice.

Rabbi Judah David Bleich is a respected authority on Jewish law and ethics, especially Jewish medical ethics. Born in New York in 1936, he studied at Torah Vada'as and Beis Medrash Elyon, as well as in the kollel in Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim of Radun. He received smicha from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and Rabbi Mendel Zaks in 1957 and was a close student of the late Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky. Rabbi Bleich holds a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College, a masters from Columbia University, and a PhD from New York University. Bleich is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a fellow of the Academy of Jewish Philosophy and a postdoctoral fellow at the Hastings Center. He advises the United States government on issues of ethics from a Jewish Orthodox perspective, is Rosh Kollel in the Yadin Yadin kollel (Institute for the Study of Jewish Monetary Law) at Yeshiva University and Rav of Yorkville synagogue.

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