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Special Issues in Kaddish

Study in honor of dead; women reciting Kaddish; Kaddish integrating mourners into communities; and hiring someone to say Kaddish.

Responsibility in the Face of the Other

Responsibility that begins in seeing the face of another human being is a primary philosophical category.

Filling the Grave

Shoveling dirt onto the coffin is the family's final ritual act of honoring the dead.

Biblical and Rabbinic Ideas

Neither the Bible nor rabbinic literature are explicitly philosophical, but they nonetheless contain precedents invoked by later Jewish thinkers.

Wedding Ceremony Merges Tradition and Egalitarianism

Traditional Jewish Egalitarian Ceremony. Contemporary Jewish Marriage Issues. Jewish Marital Relations. Jewish Lifecycle

Egalitarianism Confronts Kiddushin

Kiddushin and Egalitarianism. Contemporary Jewish Marriage Issues. Jewish Marital Relations. Jewish Lifecycle

Reconstructionist Judaism Offers Egalitarian Divorce Options

In addition to the traditional get (bill of divorce) granted by the husband, Reconstructionism offers a woman-initiated get and a mutual get.

Liturgy, Ritual and Custom of Divorce

What's involved in dissolving a Jewish marriage.

Sarah in the Bible

How historical evidence shapes our understanding of this biblical matriarch.

Taxing Times

The economic history of the Jews in Palestine in late antiquity

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