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| This volume is a detailed and comprehensive
guide to jewish practice for home and synagogue,
written in the spirit of the Conservative
movement.
The compilation is the result of a project
conceived in 1960 by Dr, Louis Finkelstein, then
Chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary,
the purpose of which was to produce authoritative
halakhic studies for the training of conservative
rabbis. Rabbi Isaac Klein, a leading
authority on Jewish law, accepted the task and
produced a series of pamphlets on Jewish law
and practice.
Before long, a widespread demand for access
to this invaluable material developed beyond
the walls of the Seminary, To answer this demand,
and to provide lay members of the Conservative
movement with a reliable guide to
Jewish practice, these pamphlets, extensively
revised and updated by Rabbi Klein, have now
been gathered together in a single volume.
The many subjects treated in the volume are
discussed in the light of traditional Jewish
sources (Bible, Talmud, Codes, Responsa, etc.),
and are fully referenced for authentication and
further study. The topics covered include virtually
everything that might be of interest to the
modern Jew: the laws of kashrut and how to
keep a kosher home; the meaning and significance
of the holidays and how to observe them
at home and in the synagogue; laws govern ing
such key life events as marriage, divorce, birth,
adoption, conversion, death, and many others.
In addition, the volume includes full discussions,
from the jewish point of view, of such
pressing issues of current concern as euthanasia,
organ transplantation, abortion, autopsy,
artificial insemination and women's rights. Also
included are relevant decisions of the Committee
on jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical
Assembly.
A Guide to jewish Religious Practice deserves
an honored place in every Jewish home. Impressive
for its thoroughness and authority, it
provides an answer to the frequently heard
question: What must one do to lead a jewish
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| About author |
 Isaac Klein —
Rabbi Isaac Klein is Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, Buffalo, New York; former president of The Rabbinical Assembly and is the author of Responsa and Halakhic Studies and contributor to scholarly journals.
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