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Review of Recent Work in Jewish Bioethics

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Bioethics Yearbook

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Readers of this Yearbook have, over the years, been informed of the developments in Jewish bioethics as propounded by Orthodox rabbis. The Orthodox have indeed been the most prolific segment of the Jewish community in addressing the issues in bioethics. They represent, however, only five to ten per cent of the Jewish community in North America, and their rabbis’ rulings flow out of their particular understanding of the Jewish tradition and their methodology for applying it. Consequently, they cannot speak for the large majority of North America’s Jews.

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Dorff, E.N. (1997). Review of Recent Work in Jewish Bioethics. In: Lustig, B.A. (eds) Bioethics Yearbook. Bioethics Yearbook, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0904-0_5

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