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In Judaism, the question of when "ensoulment" takes place is both unanswerable and irrelevant to the issue of abortion.

An overview of Israel's relationship to the Sinai, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights, 1948-67.

Israel worked to absorb massive numbers of Jewish immigrants during the 1950s.

For this crop of American writers, being Jewish is as natural as breathing, sleeping, and sex.

Nationalistic poetry was a powerful, early Israeli genre.

The future of Israeli literature is as uncertain as Israel's ever-fluctuating demography.

A survey of Israeli literature, from Ottoman-era Palestine to today.

Jewish writers chose Hebrew, not German or Russian or even Yiddish, as the language with which to build a modern literary tradition.

Just as the priest went out from the community to welcome back those afflicted with leprosy, we too should reach out to those who feel excluded.

Even if we view leprosy as a punishment, we must work to heal the afflicted, allowing our sense of compassion to override justice or logic.

God instructs Moses about the purification rituals for mothers following childbirth; God then describes to Moses and Aaron the procedures for identifying and responding to those infected with leprosy.

Living together as a community means learning to communicate effectively and respectfully.