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June 30, 2016

The Challenge of Modern Biology to Biblical Morality

A groundbreaking essay.

In 1968, the German-born Jewish philosopher Hans Jonas published an essay titled “Contemporary Problems in Ethics from a Jewish Perspective” in the journal of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, then as now the leading organ of Reform Judaism. The article was among the first to discuss the potential challenges posed by advances in biotechnology to Jewish ethical principles. Now available online for the first time, the essay remains highly relevant today:

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June 30, 2016

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