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ethics

The Knesset

Knesset Ethics Panel Probing Yair Lapid’s Italian Trip

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Knesset regulations require that the Ethics Committee approve such trips in advance.

Israel / Science and Tech

World First: Top Experts Formulate International Ethical Code for Ancient DNA Research

By Jewish Press Staff

Since ancient DNA research deals with people who once lived, it should therefore respect them.

Book Reviews / From the Paper

Title: Halakhic Morality: Essays on Ethics and Masorah by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

By dvora

The Rav begins his project with an in-depth examination of the first four mishnayot of Pirkei Avot, raising topics such as the sources of ethics, power and persuasion, elitism and democracy, educational philosophy, freedom and coercion, among others.

Halacha & Hashkafa

Slavery, Independence, And Work Ethics (Bava Metzia 76b)

By Raphael Grunfeld

The freedom to quit a job in the middle, like the exercise of all freedom, may need to be restrained to the extent that it hurts innocent people.

Op-Eds

Whatever Happened To Ethics And Menschlichkeit?

By Dr. Michael J. Salamon

Teaching morals and ethics requires the entire community. Families, schools, and shuls must put this basic Jewish principle at the top of the agenda.

Terrorism / Israel / News Briefs / Health and Medicine

Israeli Medical Association: Doctors Must Treat the Worst Injury First, Including Terrorists

By JNi.Media

Until now, EMTs were instructed to treat all the victims of an attack first, before the attacker, Not anymore...

Terrorism / Israel / Eye on "Palestine" / News Briefs / Health and Medicine

Israeli Call-In Show Debating Using Terrorist Body Parts for Implants

By JNi.Media

When a senior, left-wing, Israeli broadcaster and a Christian-Arab discuss the benefits of harvesting terrorist organs as a deterrence method, you know things are bad.

News Briefs / The Knesset

Feiglin Bans Arab MK from Podium for Calling Him ‘Fascist’

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

Does democracy allow even a legislator to call a fellow MK a “fascist?

News Briefs / The Knesset

Haredi MK Banished from Knesset Two Weeks for Handcuff Gimmick

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Knesset will be lacking one of its more colorful Knesset Members for two weeks following an Ethics Committee decision to punish Haredi MK Meir Porush for handcuffing himself to the Knesset podium last July in an outstanding theatrical appearance.. MK Porush was enraged over the bill, now law, that almost all Haredi youth must […]

The Muqata

Dare We Be Silent on Syria?

By JoeSettler

Syria presents a fascinatingly real, morbid ethical question, similar to the questions of Darfur and Rowanda.

Fink or Swim

What’s Wrong With the Star-K Kosher Phone?

By Rabbi Eliyahu Fink

A kashrus agency should be concerned with one thing and one thing only: the kosher status of our food.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Israeli Arabs

Arab MK Tibi Demoted, Fined for Dumping Water on Podium (Video)

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

If you don’t like a law, just tear it up. That is what eight Arab MKs did last month, but Ahmed Tibi also dumped water on it at the Knesset podium. Now he is banned as Deputy Speaker and must pay a fine.

News Briefs

Women behind Bars Get Three Days of Jewish Studies

By Chabad.org

“Some of the women were doctors, and lawyers—educated women with tears running down their faces in gratitude..."

Emes Ve-Emunah

How the World Sees Men in Black

By Harry Maryles

It is ethical and moral behavior that makes us a light unto the nations.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter III

By Ruchama Feuerman

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