Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition is a groundbreaking collection that introduces the reader to applied ethics and examines various social issues from contemporary and largely under-represented, Jewish ethical perspectives.

Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition introduces the reader to applied ethics and examines various social issues from contemporary and largely underrepresented Jewish ethical perspectives. The chapters explain and apply Jewish ethical ideas to contemporary issues connected to racial justice, immigration, gender justice, queer identity, and economic and environmental justice in ways that illustrate their relevance for Jews and non-Jews alike.

Part I: What is Jewish Ethics?

Chapter 1: An Overview of Secular Ethics and Applied Ethics

Allison B. Wolf

Chapter 2: What is Jewish Ethics?

Jennifer A. Thompson

Part II: Applying Jewish Ethics

A Jewish Social Fabric

Chapter 3: Jewish Perspectives on Charity: A Philosophy for Hopeless Times

Leah Kalmanson

Chapter 4: Beyond the Binary of Silence and Speech: What Jewish Liturgy and Spirals Reveal about the Limits and Potentials of Spiritual Caregiving for Survivors of Sexual Violence

Lena Sclove

Chapter 5: A Social Fabric of Interdependence: The Ethics of Care Work

Jennifer A. Thompson

Part III: Being and Belonging

Chapter 6: Not in My Name: Jewishness, Womanhood, and the Ethics of Identification

Naomi Scheman

Chapter 7: Failed Messiah: H. Leivick’s Der Goylem and the Ethics of Action

Melissa Weininger

Part IV: Enacting Justice

Chapter 8: Hans Jonas’ Ethics of Responsibility in an Age of Pervasive Technology

Andrea Lehner

Chapter 9: Views from Far and Near: Jewish Memory and Culture in the Aftermath of Violence in Argentina

Natasha Zaretsky

Chapter 10: A Judaic Approach to Immigration (In)Justice in the Americas.

Allison B. Wolf