ISBN:
0821650823
,
9780821650820
Language:
English
Pages:
xxi, 246 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
1990
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Berit mila in the Reform context
DDC:
296.4/422
Keywords:
Berit milah
;
Reform Judaism
;
11.23 practical theology of Judaism
;
Berit milah
;
Reform Judaism
;
Beschneidung
;
Reformjudentum
;
Circumcisie
;
Berit milah
;
Reform Judaism
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
The liturgy of Berit Mila / Richard N. Levy -- Enhancing the ritual of Berit Mila through the use of ceremonial art / Isa Aron and Grace Cohen Grossman -- Berit Mila as education experience / Michael Zeldin -- Berit Mila as religious/poetic metaphor / William Cutter -- Reflections of circumcision as sacrifice / Stanley F. Chyet and Norman B. Mirsky -- "Who is a Jew?": issues of Jewish status and identity and their relationship to the nature of Judaism in the modern world / David Ellenson -- A brief assessment of the significance of reform Mohalut in a socio-historical context / Bruce Phillips -- Circumcision in the biblical period / Stanley Gevirtz -- Berit Mila in Midrash and Agada / Lewis M. Barth -- To see ourselves as others see us: circumcision in antiquity and the Middle Ages / Michael Signer.
Abstract:
Berit Mila and the origin of Reform Judaism / Sanford Ragins -- Berit Mila within the history of the Reform Movement / Michael A. Meyer -- The concept of the Covenant in Reform Judaism / Eugene B. Borowitz -- Circumcision in early Halacha: Mishna and Talmud / Bernard M. Zlotowitz -- Berit Mila issues in modern Orthodoxy and Reform Judaism / Mordecai Finley -- Medical issues and Berit Mila / Thomas Goldenberg -- Appendices: CCAR report on Patrilineal descent ; 1983 statement by American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists regarding circumcision ; List of faculty for Berit Mila courses ; List of Mohalim/ot currently certified by the Berit Mila Board of Reform Judaism.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index
