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writing Hebrew ethical wills developed.

Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, all human beings are endowed with three “intrinsic dignities”: infinite worth, equality, and uniqueness.10

the modern philosophy that everything-one-wants-one-may-have,

The present generation is neither the slavish follower of the tradition handed down by past generations nor an autonomous community free to tamper with past practices or to reject past goals. Each generation is a partner entering into the covenantal responsibility and process and thus joining the transgenerational covenantal community.

While I am appreciative of industrial society and am abundantly and irreversibly indebted to feminism, I cannot help but feel that the emphasis away from childbearing has gone too far.

Green is very present in postmodern academic thinking, in nonprofits, and among social workers and community activists.

Were Jewry just a family, one could not join Judaism. Either one is born into a family or one is not. Such a pattern would make Jews a “master race” and turn the Torah into a doctrine of tribal improvement.

The sum of the Rabbis’ educational and halachic efforts was that participation in religious life was democratized.