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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 351

ethics

Volunteer supporting woman dying of tumor in a hospital room. (iStock photo)
March 22, 2022, 8:08 am
Compassion and tech merge, helping Israelis navigate Jewish law at end of life
The Tzohar organization pairs rabbis and social workers with terminally ill patients and their families, to help plan ahead and make informed choices during difficult times
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, meeting with a group of Chinese MBA students visiting Israel (courtesy of Tzohar)
May 8, 2020, 7:42 am
In strange new world, Israelis inundate pandemic ethicist for guidance
Ethicist Yuval Cherlow queried amid virus crisis by doctors who want to quit work, domestic violence victims, and people troubled that COVID-19 ‘doesn’t obey ethical rules’
By Nathan Jeffay
Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's special adviser and son-in-law, leaves 10 Downing Street in London on June 4, 2019, on the second day of Trump's three-day State Visit to the UK. (Daniel LEAL-OLIVAS / AFP)
June 11, 2019, 12:47 am
Kushner real estate firm received $90M from anonymous foreigners — report
Investments reportedly funneled through Cayman Islands, some from Saudi Arabia, raise possible conflicts of interest for Trump son-in-law
By ToI Staff
Reuven Spolter
July 25, 2018, 12:47 pm
Reuven Spolter
Meet your meat!
If the kashrut organizations can ban one unethical way of killing cows, they can revamp the whole system
Avidan Freedman
July 18, 2018, 1:15 pm
Avidan Freedman
Why not to fast on Tisha B’Av
Well, do you make decisions based on realpolitik, or based on religious value commitments?
Arik Ascherman
June 29, 2018, 7:03 pm
Arik Ascherman
Sometimes, it really isn’t complicated
‘Don’t exploit the poor’ means making sure a single mother can pay rent, and that farmers’ fields are protected
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
June 28, 2018, 12:10 pm
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
The scandal of the Ethiopians and the wine
The Orthodox Judaism I fell in love with at the age of 16 has become distorted beyond recognition
Mark Cooper
June 22, 2018, 7:06 pm
Mark Cooper
I don’t care what the Bible says
Sure, let’s reform Immigration, but not by weaponizing biblical verses to justify a policy of separating families
Alan Abrams
June 22, 2018, 4:00 pm
Alan Abrams
I think the Torah saved my life
Suicide might have been the most rational thing I could have done, and what saved me isn’t rational at all
Shayna Goldberg
May 17, 2018, 1:35 pm
Shayna Goldberg
‘But you can’t say “stupid” about people’
When you go looking for a relationship, don’t settle for Netta’s anthem of ‘not your toy!’
Donniel Hartman
May 15, 2018, 3:16 pm
Donniel Hartman
I can’t give in to my paralysis about Gaza
It is because the events at the border are a war against Israel that I seek public debate over moral means of battle
Donniel Hartman
March 30, 2018, 1:32 pm
Donniel Hartman
We free people must unite with shared purpose
We need healthy bipartisan debate on how to implement our moral commitments, given our political reality
Illustration. Israeli students participate in a mass chemistry experiment at Tel Aviv University on Sep 22, 2011. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
March 25, 2018, 9:22 am
Universities urged to enforce code banning politics in lectures
Contentious rules, which go into effect in 2019 and were pushed by education minister, also include prohibition of calls for boycott of Israel
By Michael Bachner
Ely Simon
February 8, 2018, 3:42 pm
Ely Simon
But people aren’t really EVIL, are they?
Why our brains insist that clearly barbaric behavior must be a delusion
Erica Brown
January 3, 2018, 12:49 pm
Erica Brown
At 16, I could barely write my name in Hebrew
Day schools graduate compassionate, spiritual kids, who use good judgment, advocate for justice… and get into good colleges
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