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Article: Abortion, Judaism, and Jews.
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- National Review
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- July 8, 1991
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AN ARTICLE in the New York Times a while back described what was billed as a Catholic-Jewish forum on abortion. The participants in this interfaith dialogue were Bishop Thomas V. Daily of Brooklyn, a champion of the unborn, and Rabbi Shira Stern of the Monroe Township Jewish Center, who provided the standard distortions of halakah (Jewish law).
As a religious Jew, I have become reconciled to modernists of my faith shamelessly misrepresenting Jewish teaching in this crucial area. What's puzzling here is Bishop Daily's acquiescence in the travesty. By his participation, he seems implicitly to recognize Rabbi Stern's views as the position of Judaism.
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