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• Comparison to Holocaust is Offensive
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  …inflammatory and insulting to the memories of the millions who perished in the Holocaust. … the term concentration camp, because of this horrific historical association, has become Holy, or set…

• The Kashrut of Laboratory Produced Meat
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/responsa/the-kashrut-of-laboratory-produced-meat/

  …be on supermarket shelves in 2013. But that year has passed without the expected results. The European Union has invested millions of dollars in research and development into this track…

• Rebuilding the Jewish People: A New Option
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2023/01/rebuilding-the-jewish-people-a-new-option/

  …toward Judaism. New Jewish communities are emerging in Africa which proclaim descent from the Lost Tribes or who have found that their search for religious truth has led them to…

• What is the Problem With Baruch Spinoza?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2022/12/what-is-the-problem-with-baruch-spinoza/

  …term that rings oxymoronic to some if not most Orthodox readers. Cardozo is not blind to Spinoza’s shortcomings. He finds in Spinoza’s thought an intellectual arrogance, and that Spinoza’s thought…

• Shoftim – What Does Halakhah Mean?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/shoftim-what-does-halakhah-mean/

  …halakhah.[5] He noted that while the term certainly has some sense of fixture, the term “boundary” also provided for the possibility of a range of options within those boundaries. I…

• Yom Kippur – All I Really Need To Know I Learned from Coach Kozak
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/yom-kippur-everything-i-ever-needed-to-know-i-learned-from-coach-kozak/

  …we hear a lot about. We often talk about kavanah in terms of prayer and, at least for me, I have tended to think about it in terms of how…

• Professor Barry Wimpfheimer Remembers Rabbi Halivni
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2022/08/professor-barry-wimpfheimer-remembers-rabbi-halivni/

  …I had the Bar Ilan Responsa CD burned onto my hard drive, and I could perform sophisticated word searches of the Talmud. Students would sometimes ask the type of question…

• The Adoption of Non-Jewish Children
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  …as an institution. In fact, as Rabbi Louis Ginzberg points out (Students. Scholars. and Saints, Philadelphia, 1928, p. 123), the modern Hebrew term for adoption (imutz) does not appear in…

• Being Single In A Marriage-Obsessed Community Is Tough — Whether You’re Jewish, Muslim Or Mormon
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/press/being-single-marriage-obsessed-community/

  …the term ‘shidduch crisis’ is used to describe a surplus of single community members. “I find that term deeply offensive,” said Dr. Sharon Weiss-Greenberg, executive director of JOFA, whose Facebook…

• Treatment of AIDS Patients
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  …26b; for a historical analysis of this term, see Avraham Schwartz, Otzar Yisrael). Both RaShI (ad locum) and Maimonides (Laws of Murderers 10: 12) interpret this to refer to one…

• The Abortion Debate: What Exactly is at Stake?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2022/06/the-abortion-debate-what-exactly-is-at-stake/

  …or not to carry her pregnancy to term. A draft of a Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was penned by the politically conservative Associate Justice Samuel Alito. Roe…

• What Does the Word Pesach (פסח) Mean?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2022/04/what-does-the-word-pesach-mean/

  …understanding of the term, as compared to understandings of “protect” or “skip over.” It seems to me that the understandings of “protect” and “to have compassion” are relatively close to…