Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, and Delegitimizing Israel

Family functioning among returnees to Orthodox Judaism in Israel.

The role of religious conversion in marriages and family functioning has been little explored. The current study examined family functioning and parenting stress among returnees to Orthodox Judaism with adolescent children. Possible explanatory factors for difficulties, such as attachment insecurity, religious discord in families, and poor community integration, were also explored. Randomly sel...

Suicide in Judaism with a Special Emphasis on Modern Israel

Judaism considers the duty of preserving life as a paramount injunction. Specific injunctions against suicide appear in the Bible, Talmud, and thereafter. Nevertheless, Jewish tradition emphasizes that one should let himself be killed rather than violate cardinal rules of Jewish law. Mitigating circumstances are found for the six deaths by suicide mentioned in the Bible, for example to account ...

Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism - Chapter 1

Discussions and remarks about Jews and Judaism can be found throughout Nietzsche’s writings, from the juvenilia and early letters until the very end of his sane existence. But his association with antiSemitism during his lifetime culminates in the latter part of the 1880s, when Theodor Fritsch, the editor of the AntiSemitic Correspondence, contacted him. Known widely in the twentieth century fo...

Judaism and women's health.

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2009: 35(1) Jewish law Jewish law consists of two sections: written law and oral law. The foundation of the written law and the origin of its authority is the Torah, the first five books of the Bible. The Torah is traditionally believed to have been given in a theophany on Mount Sinai and to contain the literal direct word of God. After the destruction of th...

Behavioral and Phenomenological Judaism