Jewish Attitudes

Key Issues

Titles

Chapters

• 'Nation will not take up sword'
• 'You created us'
• Abortion
• An outline of the need for world development in response to the causes, extent and effects of poverty in the world
• Attitudes to abortion
• Attitudes to capital punishment
• Certain IVF treatment permitted involving married couples only
• Charity: gemilut hasadim (bestowing kindness)
• Charity: tzedaka (righteousness/behaving in the right way)
• Concern for justice, kindness and humility
• Coping with suffering through acceptance and prayer
• dependence on God (health, prosperity, welfare, etc.)
• Detailed knowledge of ONE Jewish agency and the reasons for its work will be required
• Detailed knowledge of the work of ONE Jewish person, community or organisation will be required
• Differences among Jews in their attitudes to contraception, and the reasons for them
• Differences among Jews in their attitudes to euthanasia and the reasons for them
• Differences among Jews in their attitudes to other religions and the reasons for them
• Different Jewish attitudes to abortion and the reasons for those attitudes
• European anti-Semitism in the twentieth century and the background to the Holocaust
• euthanasia
• euthanasia regarded as sinful
• Examples of anti-Semitism
• Experience of persecution: through history
• Giving to charity in Judaism
• Good and evil inclinations
• gratitude
• greater concern with living lawfully in this world
• How either TV soap operas or the national daily press deal with religious and moral issues of importance to Jews, including an in-depth study of ONE religious or moral issue that has been dealt with
• How Judaism responds to the problem of evil and suffering
• How unanswered prayers and the existence of evil and suffering (including moral evil and natural evil) may lead people to question or reject belief in the Almighty
• Innocent suffering: issues raised in the story of Job
• Issues of organ donation and genetic engineering
• Jewish attitudes to justice and equality with particular reference to poverty
• Jewish attitudes to prejudice and discrimination with particular reference to anti-Semitism
• Jewish attitudes to prejudice and discrimination with particular reference to gender issues
• Jewish attitudes to prejudice and discrimination with particular reference to the Holocaust
• Jewish attitudes towards abortion
• Jewish attitudes towards euthanasia
• Jewish attitudes towards other religions: Jewish beliefs about the status of non-Jewish religions
• Jewish attitudes towards racism
• Jewish attitudes towards suicide
• Jewish attitudes towards the use of violence and towards pacifism
• Jewish attitudes towards war
• Jewish beliefs about sexual relationships and contraception
• Jewish beliefs about the treatment of criminals
• Jewish beliefs about the use of animals in medical research
• Jewish responses to issues raised by fertility treatment
• Jewish responses to social injustice
• Jewish responses to the Holocaust
• Jewish responses to the problem of evil
• Jewish teaching about concern for the poor and about the right uses of money
• Jewish teaching about moral and immoral occupations
• Jewish teachings about war
• justice, peace and a just society
• male/female relationships
• Obligatory and optional war
• peace and war
• poverty
• Prejudice and Discrimination - with reference to race, religion and the Jewish experience of persecution
• Principle of reparation: 'an eye for an eye' interpreted as financial compensation
• Problems for Jewish belief and identity arising from the Holocaust experience and responses to these
• Regard for strangers
• Respect and concern for the created world
• responsibility for others
• sanctity of human life: abortion
• sanctity of human life: contraception
• sanctity of human life: euthanasia
• sanctity of life: medical ethics
• Suffering
• suicide
• Suicide regarded as sinful
• The causes of hunger, poverty and disease
• The challenge of, and responses to, persecution and the Twentieth-Century Holocaust
• the concept of Holy War
• the events of the Holocaust, and different Jewish understandings of it, including the theology of the Holocaust
• The example of Leo Baeck
• The Holocaust events; its victims and survivors
• The nature of abortion, including current British legislation and non-religious arguments concerning abortion.
• The nature of euthanasia (assisted suicide, voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia), including current British legislation and arguments concerning euthanasia
• The nature of the United Kingdom as a multi-ethnic society, including prejudice, racism and discrimination
• the nature of Zionism and of the State of Israel, and the reasons why Jews might have different opinions about them
• The Nazis and the Jews 1933-1938
• the relief of hunger and poverty
• The relief of poverty and suffering in the United Kingdom by Jews
• The role and status of women
• The teachings of Judaism on almsgiving and charity
• The teachings of Judaism on compassion and justice
• The teachings of Judaism on possession
• The teachings of Judaism on stewardship
• The teachings of Judaism on the relationship between rich and poor
• The teachings of Judaism on uses and dangers of wealth
• The Twentieth-Century Holocaust and its impact on the founding of the State of Israel
• The work of a Jewish individual or aid agency to help the needy
• the work of Jewish charitable organisations within the Jewish community and beyond, e.g. Jewish Care
• The work of religious agencies in world development and the relief of poverty
• Treatment of enemies
• truthfulness: business ethics
• use of material wealth: tzedaka
• Wealth