AIDS: A Jewish Perspective

J. David Bleich Spring 1992 Issue 26.3

Post of author J. David Bleich

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodicial Literature: Medical and Cosmetic Tattooing

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Intifada and the Gulf War/ Defying Governmental Edicts/ Declining to Carry Within an Eiruv/ Listening to a Radio on Shabbat/ Teacher’s Claim for Lost Wages/ Caterer’s Claim for Cancellation of Wedding

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Entering a Non-Jewish House of Worship

“Review of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature “Cheating”, “Teachers’ Unions”, “Expulsion of Students”, “Damages to School Property”, “Study of Anatomy I: Dissection”, “Study of Anatomy II: Observation””

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature: Cadavers on Display

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Permitting Use of a Mikveh for Non-Orthodox Conversion

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Ketubah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Case of the British Conjoined Twins

Medical Malpractice and Jewish Law

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Observance of Shabbat by a Prospective Proselyte and by a Ger She-Mal Ve-Lo Toval

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Use of Automatic Telephone Answering and Fax Machines on Shabbat/ Fish or Meat at a Brit Milah Repast?/ Circumcision of a Child Born Sine Concubito

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Checks

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature: Is the Milk We Drink Kosher?

Abortion in Halakhic Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Cadaveric Dental Implants

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Women in a Minyan?/ Erev Pesach Which Occurs on Shabbat/ Sale of Chametz by Tourists/ Imprisonment or Death for Convicted Terrorists/ Dual Bar Mitzvahs/ Bat Mitzvah Celebrations

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Returning From Missions of Mercy on the Sabbath

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Hazardous Medical Procedures/ Impotence as Grounds for Divorce/ Privacy of Personal Correspondence/ Netilat Yadayim by Soldiers/ Immersion of Disposable Aluminum Utensils

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Hetter Iska

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Vaccination/ Money Found in an Automobile

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Sacrificing the Few to Save the Many

Women on Synagogue Boards

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Physicians’ Strikes/ Nuclear Warfare/ Hanukkah Lights for Travellers

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodicial Literature: The Case of the Poisoned Sandwich

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Conjoined Twins

A Review of Halakhic Literature Pertaining to the Reinstitution of the Sacrificial Order

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Stem Cell Research

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Can There be Marriage Without Marriage

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Surrogate Motherhood

A 19th Century Agunah Problem and a 20th Century Application

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Circumcision

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Liability for Harm Caused by Metaphysical Forces

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Is the Giraffe a Kosher Animal/ Burial of a Non-Jew in a Jewish Cemetery/ SheHeheyanu Upon Purchase of a New House

Methodology of Psak

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Chamez in Lake Kinneret and in the Croton Reservoir

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Do The Deceased Enjoy Property Rights?

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Compelling Tissue Donation

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Settlement in Israel/ Delayed Burial/ Sale of Commercial Enterprises to Sabbath Violators/ The Agunah Problem/ Yom Tov Sheni

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Stem Cell Burgers

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: HIV Screening of Infants

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Vegetarianism and Judaism

Torture and the Ticking Bomb

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Test-Tube Babies/ Severance Pay:hired Servant or Independent Contractor?/ Entebbe:II/ Cantorial Repetition

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Seclusion Under Video Surveillance/ The Paradox of R. Chanina Ben Teradion

Priestly Identity; Sonograms and the Unborn Kohen; Detached Buttons on Shabbos

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Treatment of the Terminally Ill

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Hetter Iska and American Courts

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Litigation and Arbitration Before Non-Jews

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature: A $25,000,000 Funeral

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Converts and Customs/ Diabetics and Shabbat

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Birkat Ha-Gomel and Tefillat Ha-Derekh for Air Travelers

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Artificial Heart Implantation

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Sanctity of the Liberated Territories/ Repayment of Loans and Currency Exchange/ Paper Cups for Kiddush/ Pampers

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Cloning

Of Cerebral, Respiratory and Cardiac Death

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Device of the “Sages of Spain” as a Solution to the Problem of the Modern-Day Agunah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Genetic Screening

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Mizvot in the Polar Regions and in Earth Orbit

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Transexual Surgery/ Emergency Use of An Automobile on Shabbat/ Accompanying a Patient on Shabbat/ Comet Kohoutek/ Daylight Saving Time and Morning Prayer

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Blood Sugar Tests/ Use of Viagra on Shabbat

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Host -Mothers/ Refusal to Gran a Religious Divorce/ Apartments Over a Synagogue/ A Responsum From Behind the Iron Curtain/ Electric Substitutes for Chanukah and Sabbath Lights

The Problem of Identity in Rashi, Rambam, and the Tosafists

Judaism and Animan Experimentation

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Mitzvot on the Moon/ Garfish and Scad/ Rabbinic Contracts/ Mendicants/ Sounding the Trumpets/ The Names of God

Priestly Identity; Sonograms and the Unborn Kohen; Detached Buttons on Shabbos

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Kiddushei Ta’ut

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Genetic Engineering

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Get of Zefat

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Disposition of Fertilized Ova

Survey of Recent Ha/halakhic Periodical Literature: Beit Din,

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Video Surveillance

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Zebu Problem/ Wheelchairs on Shabbat/ The “Roll-A-Bout”/ Choosing Between Therapies

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Whiskey Brouha

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodicial Literature: In the Wake of Birkat Ha-hammah 5769

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Sterilization of Women/ Tay-Sachs Disease/ Temporary Residents in Israel and Yom-Tov Sheni/ Prayer from The Bimah/ Organized Labor

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Harvesting Wheat for Mazah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Hazardous Medical Procedures

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Birkat Ha-Hammah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Pregnancy Reduction/ Kashrut Certification

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Torah Reading on Fast Days/ Life Insurance and the Ketubah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Professional Secrecy/ Elective Surgery Prior to Shabbat/ Dating the Ketubah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Rabbinic Confidentiality

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Surveillance Systems on Shabbat/ Soft Contact Lenses on Shabbat

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Medical and Life Insurance

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Sabbath Candles for Young Girls/ Slacks/ Cold-Water Plucking/ Tay-Sachs Reexamined

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Kohanim and Flights Leaving Israel

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Children of Mixed Mariages/ Shaving on the Intermediate Days of Festivals/ Single Sterilizer for Both Meat and Dairy Utensils/ War and Peace/ Sabbath Elevators

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: A Rainproof Sukkah/ Reading the Shema in Latin/ Oral Obligations Unsupported by Kinyan

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodic Literature: Styrofoam Cups and Utensils/ Formula-Fed Veal

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Smoking on Yom Tov/ Smoking in Public Places/ Turbot

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Lanolin

Black Jews: A Halakhic Perspective

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Indirect Coercion in Compelling a Get/ Automatic Banking Machines/ Jaundice and Circumcision/ Copyright to Tape Recording

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Rabbinate/ Medical Experimentation Upon Severed Organs/ Settlement in Israel in Face of Danger/ Residence in Spain/ Southern Hemisphere/ The Microphone Controversy

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Experimental Procedures and Pikuah Nefesh/ The Concept of Refu’ah Bedukah

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Silk Screened Torah Scrolls

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Milk Contretemps

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Marriage of a Kohen and the Daughter of a Non-Jew

The Metaphysics of Property Interests in Jewish Law: An Analysis of Kinyan

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Cannibalism/ Extradition/ Guard Duty on the Temple Mount/ The Langer Case

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Constructive Agency In Religious Divorce: An Examination of Get Zikkuy

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Aliyah Against Parental Objections/ Post-Mortem Caesarean/ Baby Formula on Passover/ Medical Questions Concerning Shabbat

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Appeal Process in the Jewish Legal System

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Mitochondrial DNA Replacement

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Spontaneous Generation and Halakhic Inerrancy

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Copyright/ Physicians’ Fees/ Tuna Fish: Continued/ Maternal Identity

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: War and the State of Israel/ Hijack Victims/ Induced Labor/ Circumcision on Shabbat/ Autopsies With Consent of the Deceased/ Temporary Crowns/ Mamzerut

Review of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: “Sale of Arms,” “Cholent,” “Recitation of Ve-Ten Tal U-Matar by Travellers”

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Utilization of Scientific Data Obtained Through Immoral Experimentation

Resurrection and Personal Identity

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Cochlear Implants

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: In Vitro Fertilization: Questions of Maternal Identity and Conversion

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Crockpots on Shabbat/ Sperm Banking

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Piscatorial Parasites

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Use of Microwave Ovens on Shabbat/ Fasting During Pregnancy/ Dating the Ketubah

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Instant Soup on Shabbat/ Judaism and Natural Law

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Insurance Related Halakhic Questions

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Judges Under Threat/ Caffeine Suppositories on Fast Days/ Tuna Fish/ Pituitary Dwarfism

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Palliation of Pain

Survey Of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Smoking/ Induced Labor/ Entebbe/ Time of Death Legislation

Extending Sabbath Invitations to the Non-Observant/ Maternal Identity Revisited

Survey of Recent Halkhic Periodical Literature: May a Sabbath-Desecrator Drink Wine?

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Physicians’ Strikes/ Nuclear Warfare/ Hanukkah Lights for Travellers

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: New York City Water

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Prostate Surgery

Judea and Samaria: Settlement and Return

The Conversion Crisis: A Halakhic Analysis

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Hypospadias and Circumcision

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Teaching Torah to Non-Jews

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Substitution of Lottery Tickets & Products Liability

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Hetter Iska

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Plastic Surgery/ Tenure/ Removal of Torah Scrolls/ Employment During the Post-Nuptial Week/ Sale of Israeli Real Estate to Non-Jews

Preemptive War in Jewish Law

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Treasure Trove and Kinyan Hazer

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Haftorah From a Braille Text/ Settlement in Egypt/ Photosensitive Eyeglasses/ Tzitzit for Nylon and Polyester Garments?

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: The Babirusa: A Kosher Pig?/ Sefirat Ha-Omer and the Observance of Shavu’ot for Travellers Crossing the Dateline/ Brides Lacking a Uterus

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: Laser Circumcision

AIDS: A Jewish Perspective

Post of author J. David Bleich

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