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    Zohar applies Talmudic views on communal sin to contemporary political discourse by posing the question "Are we our brothers' keepers?" The essay addresses international responsibility to protect victims of oppression worldwide
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    Human action and God's will: A problem of consistency in jewish bioethics
    Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 20 (4): 387-402. 1995.
    The religious legitimacy of medical practice was an issue of serious contention amongst medieval Jewish scholars. For Nahmanides, altering the patient's fate through manipulation of natural causality amounts to circumventing divine judgment. For Maimonides, however, human accomplishment is part of God's providential design; this view generally prevails in contemporary Jewish bioethics. But the doctrine of deligitimizing human intervention continues, even while unacknowledged, to underlie certain…Read more
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    Can a war be morally 'optional'?
    Journal of Political Philosophy 4 (3). 1996.
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    A Jewish Perspective on Access to Healthcare
    Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 7 (3): 260-265. 1998.
    Can anyone doubt that the Jewish tradition mandates universal access to healthcare? In a comprehensive and illuminating discussion, A.L. Mackler seems to have already said all that needs to be said. After aptly analyzing the principles of the traditional institutions and norms relating to tzedakah, Mackler proceeded to apply these traditions to the context of healthcare, concluding that
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    Should the Naked Soldier Be Spared?
    Social Theory and Practice 34 (4): 623-634. 2008.
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    Political interaction among citizens who hold opposing moral views commonly requires reaching beyond toleration, toward actual co‐operation with policies one opposes. On the more personal level, however, regarding (e.g.) interactions between healthcare providers and patients, several authors emphasise the importance of preserving integrity. But those who oppose any ‘complicity in evil’ often wrongly conflate instances in which the other's position is (and should be) totally rejected with instanc…Read more
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    Book reviews (review)
    Mind 103 (409): 89-92. 1994.
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    Duty and Healing: Foundations of a Jewish Bioethic
    Journal of Medical Ethics 24 (4): 284-285. 1998.
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    From Lineage to Sexual Mores: Examining “Jewish Eugenics“
    Science in Context 11 (3-4): 575-585. 1998.
    The ArgumentTo describe the attitude of the Jewish tradition toward eugenic ideology and policies, it is necessary to examine classical sources from a contemporary perspective. In the heyday of eugenics, Rabbi Max Reichler (1916) enthusiastically endorsed its ideology, supporting his position with numerous traditional texts. Similar views of traditional teachings on “chosen people” and on the importance of lineage have a certain contemporary following as well. The paper argues, however, that the…Read more
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    Advantageous Interventions: Will Someone Be Healed?
    American Journal of Bioethics 12 (8). 2012.
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 8, Page 32-33, August 2012
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    Twelve. Contested Boundaries
    In David Lee Miller & Sohail H. Hashmi (eds.), Boundaries and Justice: Diverse Ethical Perspectives, Princeton University Press. pp. 237-248. 2002.
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    A dialogue between contemporary, Western moral philosophy and the tradition of Legal/Moral Descourse (Halakha).
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    Civil Society and Government: Seeking Judaic Insights
    In Nancy L. Rosenblum & Robert C. Post (eds.), Civil Society and Government, Princeton University Press. pp. 265-279. 2001.
  • The Jewish Political Tradition: Volume Iii: Community (edited book)
    with Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, and Madeline Kochen
    Yale University Press. 2018.
    _The third of four volumes in a distinguished series, this volume includes chapters on the nature of the communal bond, marriage and family, welfare, taxation, government, and criminal justice_ The four-volume series on the Jewish political tradition that includes this volume seeks to connect the political thought of ancient Israel and the Diaspora with the emerging traditions of the modern Israeli state. The first two volumes dealt with authority and membership, respectively; this third volume,…Read more
  • Etiḳah ṿe-aḥarayut ḥevratit: ʻiyunim Yiśreʼeliyim (edited book)
    with Dov Izraeli
    Ts'eriḳover. 2000.
  • The Jewish Political Tradition: Politics from the Outside?
    Revue Internationale de Philosophie 274 (4): 415-424. 2015.
    In this essay, I examine aspects of Walzer's exposition of The Jewish Political Tradition (=the title of a multi-volume work of which he is leading editor) as they intersect with his work on political theory more generally. The Jewish tradition seems to present a radical example of "anti-politics": of a people existing outside the political realm. This is due both to the historical fact of their long exile, and to the shadow cast upon human politics by the prophetic ideology of Divine Sovereignt…Read more