... of kosher animal slaughter in German-speaking lands). Orthodox Judaism Frankfurt am Main Jewish dietary laws Halakha A recent essay in the Journal of Animal Ethics on the topic of animal slaughter for human consumption notes the necessity for a “conversation among religious adherents regarding...

...), death, mourning, and the Jewish dietary laws known as kashrut. cultural analysis dignity of the congregation kevod ha tsibbur and waiver halakhah Jewish law mesorah Jewish tradition minhag custom rabbinic law culture women and synagogue ritual Babylonia Elon Menachem Meir Jacob...

... passages addressing these restrictions provide important insights into the ultimately successful efforts of those who sought to redefine this community and its boundaries. These passages address two separate issues, which are examined in this chapter: the dietary laws incumbent upon gentile as well...

..., ideas about the relationship between the Qur'an's audience of believers and members of other religious communities. Surahs ascribed to the Meccan period of Muhammad's prophethood (ca. 610–22) portray these dietary laws as a golden mean between two undesirable sets of food practices...

... on Jewish dietary laws, their functions, and their relation to life, death, the sacred, the impure, and Jewish identity. These are the works of Mary Douglas, Jacob Milgrom, Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, and David Kramer. In her first foray into Jewish dietary laws, in her well-known essay “Abominations...

... dietary laws, was born of my earlier research on Jewish orthodoxy,1 carried out over extensive periods in which I never ceased to ponder the hyperritualization that characterizes the daily life of Orthodox Jews. My fieldwork in Brazil and in Israel and my scouring of diverse materials from medieval legal...

...-critical biblical scholarship. The necessity of all these aspects is demonstrated through an analysis of work on the Israelite dietary laws in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. For this classical interpretative puzzle Mary Douglas's work, Purity and Danger, has been a decisive turning point...

... around pilgrimage feasts to the chosen cultic centre. It also defines the identity of the chosen people through narratives of hospitality or inhospitality that underline the Deuteronomic requirement to offer food to the poor and vulnerable. Aristeas Letter of Deuteronomy book of dietary laws memory...

... between the rabbinic calendar and the Karaite calendar; sabbath laws; Karaite and rabbinic dietary laws; and purity laws. It then looks at rabbinic and Karaite marriage laws. creation of the world festivals religious law Levi Haim omer counting of sabbath Shavuot Torah Unleavened Bread Feast...

... Martin Luther London Rigby Lee Muslim North London Community Centre Tossavainen Mikael alienation Finkielkraut Alan Israel Halal Kashrut (Jewish dietary laws) Animal slaughter Racial discrimination Hijab Niqab Burqah Racism Jewish-Islamic cooperation Pork soup (soupe au cochon...

... pluralism inclusivism exclusivism dietary laws (or: food) afterlife This volume is devoted to a weighty theological question with significance for how Muslims think about their non-Muslim neighbors in a multicultural society: Can I expect to see in Heaven those with whom I associate on earth if I am...

... and the different role of the dietary laws in each denomination. The construction of modern kosher certification and Jewish food activism—“Jewish food ethics”—are described as a consequence of industrialized and globalized food production. delis bread calendar religious cholent food production kashrut poor...

...Situated in the second half of the nineteenth century, Memoirs tells the story of the dissolution of tradition in Russian Jewish society through the experience of one family. This chapter depicts the traumatic relinquishing of the observance of Jewish dietary laws, the sense of betrayal by her...

...This chapter considers the Hebrew Bible's seemingly nonchalant attitude toward the food of foreigners. The Hebrew Bible emphasizes the distinction between “us” and “them”, and the superiority of Israelite religion over all others. Biblical texts that address dietary laws, moreover, consistently...

... in Israel's history New Testament 136 3 136 25 Habel N C Promised Land 1–11 3 Smith W R covenant dietary laws feasting hospitality meat sacrifice Douglas M food taboos monarchy Feeley Harnick G Smend R Zimmerli W Brenner A Henten J W van Knierim R P Lévi Strauss C Schmitt E Goody J...