C O N T E N T Sv o l u m e 2

Orach Chayim: Worship, Shabbat, and Festival ObservanceMay a Non-Jew Wear a Tallit? (5765.5) 3Times for the Shacharit Service (5765.2) 9Matriarchs in the T’fi lah (5763.6) 19B’rachah and Gender (5767.1) 27Bar/Bat Mitzvah on a Festival (5762.6) 39

Yoreh Dei-ah: Ritual ObservanceMay Non-Jews Participate in the Writing of a Torah Scroll? (5765.1) 51A Defective “Holocaust” Torah Scroll (5760.3) 59Proper Disposal of Religious Texts (5762.1) 71A Convert’s Hebrew Name (5760.6) 85Conversion When the Spouse Remains a Gentile (5760.5) 93Conversion of an Illegal Immigrant (5763.4) 101Compulsory Immunization (5759.10) 107Human Stem Cell Research (5761.7) 121Live Liver Transplantation (5763.2) 143Hastening the Death of a Potential Organ Donor (5763.3) 165Gentiles and Jewish Mourning Rites (5760.4) 179When a Parent Instructs a Child Not to Say Kaddish (5766.1) 185When a Parent Requests Cremation (5766.2) 193A Question of Disinterment (5767.3) 209

Even Ha-Eizer: Personal Status, Marriage, and Family LifeAdoption, Conversion, and “Patrilineal” Descent (5767.2) 219An Adopted Asian Child (5760.9) 231Presumption of Jewish Identity (5760.2) 235Donations to Synagogue by Messianic Jews (5761.2) 241Including the Name of a Stepfather in One’s Jewish Name (5765.8) 247A “Hebrew Name” for a Non-Jewish Parent (5762.2) 251

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May a Jew Join the Society of Friends? (5764.3) 257Commitment Ceremonies for Heterosexual Couples; Jewish Wedding Ceremony in the Absence of a Civil Marriage License (5764.4) 261May a Jew Married to a Non-Jew Become a Rabbi? (5761.6) 269

Choshen Mishpat: The Life of the CommunityMinimal Dues for Congregational Membership (5764.5) 277Synagogue Dues Relief and Income Tax Returns (5765.3) 285Collection of Debts to the Congregation (5764.1) 291Solicitation of Synagogue Members by Other Jewish Organizations (5763.1) 299Sharing the Synagogue’s Membership List (5763.7) 307A Sex Offender in the Synagogue (5765.4) 315Rabbinical Autonomy and Collegiality (5761.3) 323Withholding Paternity Information from a Father (5760.8) 333Copyright and the Internet (5761.1) 339The Synagogue and Organized Labor (5761.4) 345Boycotts in the Name of Social Justice (5762.4) 355Inheritance: How Much to Leave to a Child? (5765.10) 359Preventive War (5762.8) 365Hunger Strike: On the Force Feeding of Prisoners (5766.3) 381

Index to Volume 1 and 2 403

From Reform Responsa for the Twenty-First Century: Sh'eilot Ut'shuvot Volume 2, copyright © 2010 by the Central Conference of American Rabbis. Used by permission of Central Conference of American Rabbis. All rights reserved.

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