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Jewish Beliefs about God

During the several thousand years of Jewish history, much has been written about the nature of the Jewish concept of God. This brief section is a summary of some of the major themes. There are different definitions of the concept of "God." We do not all mean the same thing when we use the word God, even with a capital "G." While there are some similarities in the Jewish and Christian beliefs ab...

Questions about the accuracy of polar body analysis for preimplantation genetic screening.

Sir, We read with interest the article by Capalbo et al. (2013), which describes the use of array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) for the sequential analysis of the 1st and 2nd polar bodies (PBs), single blastomeres and trophectoderm (TE) biopsies, derived from a small group of reproductively older women (aged 40 years or over). On the basis of their results, Capalbo et al. question th...

Prenatal screening in Jewish law.

Although prenatal screening is routinely undertaken as part of a woman's antenatal care, the ethics surrounding it are complex. In this paper, the author examines the Jewish position on the permissibility of several tests, including those for Down's syndrome and Tay-Sachs disease, the latter being especially common in the Jewish community. Clearly, the status of the tests depends on whether ter...