Uncountable as the stars: Inheritable genetic intervention and the human future - A Jewish perspective

Designing Our Descendants: The Promises and Perils of Genetic Modifications

Volumn 9780801881299, Issue , 2003, Pages 212-237

  Zoloth, Laurie ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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2. Yoel Jakaovitz, "Cloning and Its Challenges", Torah U'Maddah Journal 9(2000):195.
3. Kenneth Waxman, "Creativity and Catharsis: A Theological Framework for Evaluating Cloning", Torah U'Maddah Journal 9(2000):188-93.
4. Marge Piercy, He, She, and It (New York: Knopf, 1991). text resolves this in an odd way, not by claiming the humanity or countable status of the Golem, but by decrying the waste of a creature with "a purpose."
5. John Loike, "Is the Human Clone a Golem?" Torah U'Maddah Journal 9(2000):238.
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7. Joseph Soleveitchik, Halachic Man, tr. Lawrence Kaplan (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1983), 99.
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11. Steinberg, "Human Cloning", 213. Citing here Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach and Yehoshua J. Neuwirth.
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