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   To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life (Chap. 6 "The Dietary Laws: A Diet for the Soul") » Read Now

   by Rabbi Hayim Halevy Donin. 338 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

   ...CHAPTER 2 / Halakha: The Jewish Way 28...47 Laws of Charity 48...CHAPTER 6 / The Dietary Laws: A Diet for the...fundamental institutions of Jewish observance: the Sabbath...
   
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   Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World: Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian ("The Attack on the Jewish Dietary Laws" begins on p. 167) » Read Now

   by Louis H. Feldman. 673 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

   Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman, how did Jews succeed in winning so many adherents, whether full-fledged proselytes or "sympathizers" who...

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   Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman, how did Jews succeed in winning so many adherents, whether full-fledged proselytes or "sympathizers" who adopted one or more Jewish practices? Systematically evaluating attitudes toward Jews from the time of Alexander the Great to the fifth century A.D., Feldman finds that Judaism elicited strongly positive and not merely unfavorable responses from the non-Jewish population. Jews were a vigorous presence in the ancient world, and Judaism was strengthened substantially by the development of the Talmud. Although Jews in the Diaspora were deeply Hellenized, those who remained in Israel were able to resist the cultural inroads of Hellenism and even to initiate intellectual counterattacks.Feldman draws on a wide variety of material, from Philo, Josephus, and other Graeco-Jewish writers through the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha, the Church Councils, Church Fathers, and imperial decrees to Talmudic and Midrashic writings and inscriptions and papyri. What emerges is a rich description of a long era to which conceptions of Jewish history as uninterrupted weakness and suffering do not apply.

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   Secrecy and Deceit: The Religion of the Crypto-Jews (Chap. XIX "Food and Dietary Laws") » Read Now

   by David M. Gitlitz. 682 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

   ...CHAPTER XV Crypto-Jewish Ritual and Prayer...CHAPTER XIX Food and Dietary Laws 531...purity-of-blood laws derive from essentially Jewish attitudes and...discriminatory...
   
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   Ethical Eating: Applying the Kosher Food Regulatory Regime to Organic Food, in Yale Law Journal » Read Now

   by Benjamin N. Gutman. 34 pgs.

   Collections: Entire Library

   ...to observance of the Jewish dietary laws."); id. at 65 (statement...Consider Return to Kosher Dietary Laws, L.A. TIMES, Dec. 6...full accounting of Jewish religious...
   
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   The Hasidic Community of Williamsburg ("The Manufacture or Sale of Hasidic Foodstuffs" begins on p. 175) » Read Now

   by Solomon Poll. 308 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

   ...Sabbath and the dietary laws. . . to maintain...to foster Jewish religious life...requirements of the dietary laws. 2 From...can observe the dietary laws more...
   
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   In Praise of Archaic Ritual, in The American Enterprise » Read Now

   by Michael Medved, Kathleen Howley. 3 pgs.

   Collections: Entire Library

   ...contend that kosher laws are intended to...why traditional Jewish cuisine is, alas...understanding of Jewish dietary traditions it...appropriate." Jewish dietary laws arent...