Kashrut and Jewish Food Ethics /

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

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 protecti...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.)
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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

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