Jews enlisted in both the Union and the Confederate armies during the Civil War, but they were not allowed to serve as chaplains to provide religious and emotional support, as well as to preside over Jewish funerals.

Emancipation, industrialization, socialism and Zionism.

The original diaspora community.

Jewish views on organ donation are overridden by a single halakhic (legal) concept: pikuach nefesh—the Jewish obligation to save lives.

Most Jewish ethicists approve of therapeutic cloning, but question the morality of reproductive cloning.

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The recitation of Kaddish benefits both the soul of the departed loved one, as well as the mourner.