Kashrut and Jewish Food Ethics / / ed. by Shmuly Yanklowitz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Bigman, Rabbi David,; Cardozo, Nathan Lopes,; Cardozo, Nathan,; Gitler, Rabbi Marc,; Goodman, Daniel R.,; Gottlieb, Mel,; Greenberg, Irving (Yitz),; Greenberg, Rabbi Gabe,; Jaffe, Rabbi David,; Kasher, David,; Landes, Rabbi Daniel,; Leibowitz, Rabbi Aaron,; Linzer, Rabbi Dov,; Lopatin, Rabbi Asher,; Mayse, Ariel Evan,; Najman, Rosh Kehillah Dina,; Odenheimer, Rabbi Micha,; Potek, Rabbi Aaron,; Rosen, David,; Shafner, Rabbi Hyim,; Sperber, Daniel,; Yanklowitz, Shmuly,
• HerausgeberIn: Yanklowitz, Shmuly,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Thought, Jewish History: New Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (292 p.)

Since the turn of the millennium, rapid advances in technology, globalized markets, and atomized politics instigated in the American and Israeli Jewish communities questions about the morals of food consumption. Contemporary issues such as workers' rights, animal welfare, environmental protection, among others, intersect with basic Jewish food ethics: while Jewish communities respect ancient laws, they also appreciate the importance of progress and look forward to a more repaired world. In these pages, readers will have the unique opportunity to delve into the minds of the brightest Modern Orthodox thinkers of the current generation. The contributions contained in Kashrut & Jewish Food Ethics by members of the progressive Orthodox Jewish association Torat Chayim are rich in detail and offer new paradigms for the practical observance of kashrut that have swirled in the ether for generations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- SECTION 1: Kashrut Dynamics -- CHAPTER 1. On the Ethics and Politics of Kosher Food Supervision -- CHAPTER 2. Are You Really Eating Kosher? On Camouflage, Hypocrisy, and Hiding Behind the Kashrut Laws -- CHAPTER 3. Milk and Meat -- SECTION 2. Bridging Kashrut with Ethical & Spiritual Concerns -- CHAPTER 1. The Moral Underpinnings of Kashrut Rabbi -- CHAPTER 2. Eating Our Way from Holiness to Justice -- CHAPTER 3. Increasing Holiness in Life -- SECTION 3. Spirituality of Eating -- CHAPTER 1. Eating as a Sacrament- The Eating Table and the Coffin -- CHAPTER 2. Food for Thought -- CHAPTER 3. Holy Eating in Jewish Thought and Practice -- CHAPTER 4. Too Much of Everything is Just Enough -- SECTION 4. Health & Consumption -- CHAPTER 1. Towards a Jewish Nutrition Ethic -- CHAPTER 2. Why Are We So Hungry? Our Betrayal of Eating, Being Satisfied and Blessing and The Way Back -- CHAPTER 3. Your Grains, Your Grape Juice, and Your Oil -- SECTION 5. Worker Rights, Equality, & Hunger -- CHAPTER 1. The Divine Image -- CHAPTER 2. Judaism and The Crisis of the Rural Village in the Global South -- CHAPTER 3 Let Them Have a Little Bread -- SECTION 6. Animal Welfare -- CHAPTER 1. םייח ילעב רעצ יניינעב הבושת -- CHAPTER 2. Animal Suffering and the Rhetoric of Values and Halakhah -- CHAPTER 3. The Commandments Were Only Given for the Purpose of Refining People -- CHAPTER 4. The Case for Limiting Meat Consumption to Shabbat, Holidays, and Celebrations -- SECTION 7. Environmentalism, Conservation, and GMOs -- CHAPTER 1. Ethical Eating and the Impact on Our Environment -- CHAPTER 2. Humanity and the Tree of the Field -- CHAPTER 3. Divine Wisdom or Altering Creation? A Torah Perspective on GMOs -- Conclusion -- Index