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WAR & PEACE: Ethics & Laws of Combat

Judaism has a complicated relationship with war. Peace, or shalom, is often presented as Judaism's highest value. But most Jewish texts and thinkers are not in favor of unequivocal pacifism and do believe that just wars can exist.

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