Mishpachah : The Jewish Family in Tradition and in Transition.

Cover -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- Contributors -- I. The Past -- Uncovering the Ongoing Parental Role in Education in the Rabbinic Period -- Mishnah Gittin: Family Relations as Metaphor for National Relations -- All in the Family: Ancient Israelite and Judahite Families in Context -- Family Values and Biblical Courtship and Marriage: Spanning the Time Barrier -- Presumptuous Halachah: On Determining the Status of Relationships Outside Jewish Marriage -- Agunot, Immigration, and Modernization, from 1857 to 1896 -- II. The Present -- Lost, Hidden, Discovered: Theologies of DNA in North American Judaism and Messianic Judaism -- Contemporary Modern Orthodox Guidance Books on Marital Sexuality -- Challah from Abba: The Modern Jewish Father -- "Jewish Education Begins at Home": Training Parents to Raise American Jewish Children after World War II -- Modern Families: Multifaceted Identities in the Jewish Adoptive Family -- III. The Future -- The Jewish Perspective in Creating Human Embryos Using Cloning Technologies -- Multiplying Motherhood: Gestational Surrogate Motherhood and Jewish Law.

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