Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Social Justice

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151 Index A activism, 15–16, 53–54 adoption, 58 adultery, 110 advocacy, 9, 24, 32, 49–50, 53, 83 affirmative action, 36, 44–46, 51–52 African-Americans and affirmative action, 36, 51–52 and capital punishment, 115–16 and drug-related crimes, 113, 118 hate crimes against, 65, 67 incarceration rates, 117–21 and Jews, 50–52 racial profiling, 137n21 and racism in criminal justice system, 113–14, 115–16, 117–21, 137–38, 137n21 understanding of, lack of, 10 air pollution, 80, 89, 97, 98, 141–42 alternative energy, 86, 95 American Jewish Committee (AJC), 44–45, 49–50 American Jewish Congress (AJCongress), 49–50, 53 Amir, Yigal, 127 animal waste, 90, 93, 93n10 Anti-Defamation League (ADL), 44, 49–50, 53 anti-Semitism, 49–51, 54 B bias crimes. see hate crimes Blackmun, Harry, 136 Black Nationalism, 51–52 Blacks. see African-Americans b’tzelem elohim (in the image of God), 10, 13, 27, 37, 38, 42, 60–61, 109, 141 Bush, George W., 89n4 C capital punishment and African-Americans, 115–16 arbitrary nature of, 137 biblical and rabbinic views on, 106, 109–12, 123–26 contemporary Jewish views on, 114–16 costs of, 138 as deterrence, 114, 126, 135 international views on, 105, 139 in Israel, 115, 127, 140 manner of execution, 139 and the poor, 115, 116, 138 pros and cons, 105–6, 126–28, 134–40 and witnesses, 110, 115, 135–36 wrongful conviction/execution, 115–16, 135–36 CDFI (Community Development Financial Institutions), 12 charity (tzedakah). see also communal funds; justice acts of, 5–8 biblical and rabbinic views of, ix, 5–8, 16, 20–21 contemporary Jewish views on, x corporate, 26, 31 and education funding, 119 and health care, 26, 30–31 and the environment, 84, 86 gradations of, 6–7 Jewish vs. non-Jewish causes, 13 priorities, 7, 9–10, 21n16 women receiving, 7 Cheney, Dick, 96 Cities of Refuge, 38, 109–11 citizenship, universal, 47 civic responsibility. see governmental responsibility Civil Rights Movement, 47, 50–51 152 Index class discrimination, 60 Clinton, Bill, 62, 121 coal companies and lobbies, 84 Coca-Cola, 91n8 cocaine, 118 collective action problems, 98, 101 communal funds for the poor and sick, ix, 6, 8, 12, 30–31 communal responsibility accountability, 19–20 and economic development, 12 for health care, 10–11, 30–31 limits of, 27–31 for the poor, 12 towards the environment, 78–79, 85–87 compassion, 126, 141 compensation, victim, 107–9, 112 confessions, false, 135–36, 136n16 consumption, 76–77, 82–84, 89–92, 96 see also personal responsibility corporate charity, 26 crack. see cocaine crime and punishment biblical and rabbinic views on, 107–9 contemporary Jewish views on, 112–14 criminal acts and intent, 63–64, 66–67 goals of, 105–6, 129–32 hate crimes, 43–44, 62–67 prevention of, 130–34 see also deterrence; justice criminal justice system, flaws of the, 113–16, 117–18, 133–38, 137n21 cross-burning, 62, 65–67 D dead, burial of the, 5, 37 death penalty. see capital punishment debt, 28, 40, 124 deterrence, 114, 116, 126, 130–31, 133, 135 dignity, human (kavod ha-beriyot), 21, 55–57, 60–61, 107, 141 dina d’malkhuta dina (the law of the sovereign/state is the law), 124 direct service, x, 9 discrimination biblical and rabbinic views on, 37–38 class, 60 contemporary Jewish views on, 41–42 gender/gender identity, 57–59 Jewish response to, 47, 49–52, 54, 60–61 legal, 35, 41, 56 overweight people, 59–60 sexual orientation, 42, 57–58 social, 59–60 diversity, 46 DNA testing, 135–36 drug and alcohol treatment, 24–25, 118 drug-related crimes, 113–14, 117–20 E earth, man as steward over, 73, 88 see also environment Eastern European Jews, 48–49, 123 eco-kosher lifestyle, 83 economic development, 12, 84–85 education, 87, 117, 119–22, 133 Eichmann, Adolph, 127, 140 Elijah, 39, 82 energy, 78, 82, 84–87, 95, 95n12 Enlightenment, 47–48 environment balancing profit and environmental sustainability, 93–94, 97–98, 101 biblical and rabbinic views on, 73–75, 81–82, 81n1, 92 collective action problems, 98, 101 communal responsibility, 78–79, 85–87 Index 153 contemporary Jewish views on, 76–80, 141–42 corporate responsibility, 71, 74–75, 83–84, 91–94, 97–99 education about, 87 government responsibility, 71–72, 75, 80, 84–87, 94–95, 97–101 personal responsibility, 71, 73–74, 76–78, 84–87, 96–97 and...