Zoroastrianism and Judaism. George William Carter

William Fitzwilliam Carter

Lillian Carter, Rosalynn Carter, and caregiving.

O n March 10, 2011, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter was the guest speaker for the 20th induction ceremony of the Georgia Women of Achievement at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. No one was more appropriate for this role, as one of the three women inducted that day was her own mother-in-law, Lillian Gordy Carter, who passed away in 1983 at the age of 85. Both of my parents were born and rai...

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

Judaism and reproductive technology.

Reproductive technology offers a bewildering number of options for infertile men and women to have children, including ovary and testis freezing, transplantation, in vitro fertilization (IVF), donor sperm, donor eggs, stem cells, gestational surrogacy, genetic diagnosis of embryos, and, of course, birth control. These technologies cut to the very core of personal and religious belief systems. T...