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Sale: A New Source Book on the Jewish Ethics of Addressing Terrorism
This publication is designed to help individuals
and families use Jewish sources and resources to address the aftermath
of the terrorist attack in NY and Washington. The book asks: How
do we do fight terrorism and preserve our society's moral fiber?
How do we maintain our personal, communal and religious ethics and
sense of morality in the face of a needed war on terrorism? What
are the boundaries for addressing terrorism? What is the ethical
framework we employ? :
Jewish Ethics and Fighting Terrorism will include three distinct
sections:
1. Helping families and educators with strategies to address this
difficult terrain with their children.
2. Several High Holiday Sermons that offer words of wisdom, inspiration,
comfort, and insight into how an American Jewish community responds
to terrorism.
3. An expanded special issue of Sh'ma that addressed these questions
with essays from Rabbi Saul Berman, Director of Edah, a voice of
Modern Orthodoxy
Dr. Marc Gopin, author of Between Eden and Armageddon: The Future
of World Religions, Violence and Peacemaking and Holy War, Holy
Peace
Dr. Reuven Firestone, Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam at
HUC-JIR in LA and author of Jihad: THe Origin of Holy War in Islam.
Dr. Dov Zakheim, Undersecretary of Defence, Controller
Dr. Vanessa Ochs, Professor of Religion, University of Virginia
Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff, National Director of Inter-religious Affairs
at the American Jewish Committee, former Chief Rabbi of the American
Armed Services
Dr. Dawn Rose, former director of the Ethics Center at the Reconstructionist
Rabbinical School and Rabbi of Temple of Universal Judaism in NYC.
Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, President of Jewish Life Network
Available February, 2002. $25.00 includes postage and handling.
To order, contact bookorders@JFLmedia.com.
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