{"title":"“Judaism as”: From Civilization to Conversation","authors":"Hoffman","doi":"10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0203","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 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.","PeriodicalId":40209,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Jewish Ethics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41434347","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}
{"title":"Jewish Ethics and Leadership: Four Perspectives","authors":"Newman, Messinger, Waxman, Kennebrae","doi":"10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0224","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 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.","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":"41746217","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}
{"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}
{"title":"Opening Tribute to David A. Teutsch","authors":"Waxman","doi":"10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0135","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":"46111306","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}
{"title":"Rain of Justice, Voice from Sinai: Theology, Ethics, and Metaphor","authors":"Spitzer","doi":"10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0195","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 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.","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":"47036206","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}
{"title":"The Ethical Conundrum of a Jewish and Democratic State","authors":"Ellenson","doi":"10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0164","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 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.","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":"42998785","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}
{"title":"“No Palestinian House Is Without Tears”: Disrupting American Jewish Narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict","authors":"Zimmerman","doi":"10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/JJEWIETHI.6.2.0184","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 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.","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":"48629952","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}
{"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}
{"title":"Gersonides on Job's Ethical Error","authors":"Green","doi":"10.5325/jjewiethi.7.1-2.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/jjewiethi.7.1-2.0001","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":"70847236","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}