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The major codes of Jewish law forbid actions that hasten death, but some allow the removal of impediments to death.

The Karaites, biblical fundamentalists, challenged the authority of rabbinic Judaism.

The history of Kabbalah in Medieval Spain.

Agriculture plays a huge role in Israel's society.

An unequal partnership?

Behind these biblical practices is a vision of how politics, economics, and relations to the environment should be structured that makes manifest spiritual concerns as well.

Jewish texts on social justice describe the tension between providing what is needed and providing what is affordable.

Making decisions about tzedakah in the context of a group can be a powerful force in both deepening our spiritual lives and building community.

In Israel, even the musical is political.

A Sephardic Jew records his impression of the city and its Jewish inhabitants in the twelfth century.

According to some Hasidic thinkers, human free will is an illusion; God causes all human actions.

Jewish thinkers have both embraced and directly reacted to foreign ideas and philosophies.