Teaching Hot TopicsFifteen chapters highlight how Jewish responses to highly sensitive issues have changed overtime. Text study, overviews of both traditional and modern Jewish attitudes, plus listings of related virtues (middot) and commandments (mitzvot) promote a Jewish approach to grappling with highly charged subjects. Topics Include:
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Contents
BODY HEALTH MEDICINE 1 Abortion | 1 |
Cloning and Other Genetic Technolgies | 25 |
Euthanasia | 63 |
CIVIL AND POLITICAL ISSUES | 105 |
Ethics of Business | 107 |
Death Penalty | 145 |
School Violence | 157 |
Ethics of | 189 |
CITIZENS OF THE PLANET 3 | 193 |
25 | 194 |
35 | 203 |
189 | 209 |
9 | 215 |
Animal Experimentation | 219 |
Foundations of Sexual Ethics 12 Masturbation 13 Birth Control 14 Homosexuality 15 Sex Outside of Marriage | 271 |
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