
	Where results make sense

Topic: Jewish law and history on smoking

Related Topics

Tobacco smoking

Tobacco smoking

	The Jews of the East
		The women remain together the whole day for the sake of talking and smoking; and those who are lately married fill the pipes and make the coffee.
		If the young wife has a good understanding with her mother-in-law, peace is maintained between the couple; but in the contrary case they are at times tired of each other at the age of seventeen or eighteen, and from this circumstance a divorce and a new marriage often result.
		The degree of Jewish civilization in this country is very low, equally with that of the Turks and Greeks by whom the Israelites are surrounded.
	www.jewish-history.com /occident/volume1/june1843/east3.html (1096 words)

	\| National Jewish Outreach Program \|
		Jewish leaders in the time of the Bible were chosen for their righteousness, which is not to say that they never veered from the straight and narrow.
		It is unthinkable (under Jewish law) to flagrantly disregard a prohibition set forth in the Torah simply because it is difficult or inconvenient to observe the law.
		Jewish law does not agree with the unacceptable assertion by tobacco companies and some politicians, that a person has the right to smoke because smokers only harm themselves.
	www.njop.org /html/ask_the_rabbi.html (3526 words)

	Jewish law and history on smoking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This article addresses the history of tobacco smoking among Jews and Jewish legal literature (Halakha) about cigarette smoking, from the early modern period to the present day.
		He bans smoking on the Passover holy days, assuming that it was soaked in beer, a source of leaven (chametz) (ib.
		Smoking is specifically prohibited by Solomon Freehof, other Reform rabbis, as well as rabbis in the Conservative movement in the U.S. and Israel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_law_and_history_on_smoking (1340 words)

	Smoking Laws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Smoke sometimes also is a component of internal combustion engine exhaust gas, particularly diesel exhaust.
		Smoke inhalation is a the primary cause of death in victims of indoor fires.
		The smoking pipe typically consists of a small chamber (the bowl) for the combustion of the substance to be smoked and a thin stem (shank) that ends in a mouthpiece (also called a bit).
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/167/smoking-laws.html (1157 words)

	Jewish Laws (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards is the central authority on halakha (Jewish law and tradition) within Conservative Judaism; it is one of the most active and widely know committees on the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly.
		Conservative rabbis hold that the boundaries of Jewish law are determined through the halakhic process, a religious-ethical system of legal precedents.
		When a rabbi proposes a new interpretation of a law, that interpretation is not normative for the Jewish community until it becomes accepted by other committed and observant members in the community.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/107/jewish-laws.html (638 words)

	Coughing Smoking
		Jewish law and history on smoking - This article addresses the history of tobacco smoking among Jews and Jewish legal literature (Halakha) about cigarette smoking, from the early modern period to the present day.
		Tradable smoking pollution permits - As an alternative to smoking bans, some economists have proposed a system of tradable smoking permits as a solution to the problem of cigarette-smoking "externalities" in public bars and restaurants.
		Smoking restrictions would be phased in, with a ban on smoking in NHS and government buildings by 2006, in enclosed public places by 2007, and pubs, bars and restaurants (except pubs not serving food) by the end of 2008.
	sneezing.vvvvvv3.com /coughingsmoking.html (669 words)

	FORCES International - SMOKING AND HEALTH PROMOTION IN NAZI GERMANY
		Smoking is prohibited in many individual workplaces and public buildings, including government bureaus, hospitals, and rest homes.
		The failure of smoking rates to fall in Germany in the way they have fallen in several other countries is attributed by Brenner to the relative lack of public health initiatives aimed at preventing smoking in Germany.
		The history of smoking and health in Germany, which cannot be taken to start in the post war world with a population free of restrictions on smoking, shows the inadequacy of simple diffusion models.
	www.forces.org /articles/art-fcan/nazi2.htm (2276 words)

	[No title]
		Law #1 of The Code of Hammurabi states "If anyone ensnare another, putting a ban upon him, but he can not prove it, then he that ensnared him shall be put to death".
		The laws written in the OTB is so extensive and so intertwined with historical renditions and happenings, that they are not neatly set down, as is the Code of Hammurabi.
		In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
	www.terrylaw.us /Articles/HistoryOfLaw.htm (6821 words)

	Christians Discriminated Against by Israel
		Although the Likud government of Menachem Begin assured the Christian community that the law applied equally to all religions and did not specifically mention Christians, the United Christian Council of Israel charged that it was biased and aimed specifically at Christians since only Christians openly proselytized.
		Jewish infringements on Christian rights became so bad by 1990 that on Dec. 20 the leaders of Christian churches in Jerusalem took the extraordinary decision to restrict Christmas celebrations to protest “the continuing sad state of affairs in our land,” including encroachment by Israel on traditional Christian institutions.
		Among concerns expressed by the patriarchs and heads of churches were attempts by Jewish settlers to move into the Old City and an “erosion of the traditional rights and centuries-old privileges of the churches,” including imposition by Israel of municipal and state taxes on the churches.
	www.ifamericansknew.org /history/rel-christians.html (1478 words)

	[No title]
		In ancient Jewish law, for example, a land-claimant had to perform a visible hazakah act, generally considered to be “locking, fencing.
		In ancient Mesopotamian law, a vendor could transfer land to a purchaser by lifting his own foot off it and putting the purchaser’s foot in his place.174 This physically demonstrated the cessation of the old owner’s control over the property and the commencement of control by a new owner.
		In Mesopotamian law, for instance, parties and witnesses to a land transaction were required to “eat the ram and drink the cup”265 before their dealings were legally complete and valid.
	www.law.pitt.edu /hibbitts/ctos_txt.txt (13358 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Smoking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		More recently, rabbinic responsa tend to argue that smoking is prohibited as self-endangerment under Jewish law and that smoking in indoor spaces should be restricted as a type of damage to others(See article on Jewish law and history on smoking).
		Rhode Island passed a similar law which bans smoking in almost all public places (a public place being defined as "an enclosed area to which the public is invited or in which the public is permitted." 1) It took effect on 1 March 2005.
		Smoking is prohibited by the "Evin" law in all indoor places used collectively, such as public places, schools, and workplaces, except in areas specifically designated for smokers.
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/smoking (3390 words)

	[No title]
		Therefore, an observant Jewish person would make sure that he does not eat anything about which there would be the slightest suspicion that anything forbidden, for example, swine’s flesh, might be in the food he eats.
		According to Jewish law, the observance of the Sabbath is of paramount importance.
		The Committee on Jewish Law and Standards is comprised of members of the Rabbinical Assembly and The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism.
	www.koach.org /Smoking.doc (1496 words)

	images and pictures of mental illness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In Ancient Greece, whenever there was a plague, "the mentally-ill" were forced to live on the outskirts of town (ancient history's version of the homeless?) and were stoned to death as part of the ritual purification of the city.
		The first section attempts to prove the existence of devils and witches; if the reader is not convinced by the authors' arguments, it is only because he himself is a victim of witchcraft or heresy [similar to the present-day belief that "mental patients" don't know they're sick because they are victims of their illness].
		Prior to the Jewish Holocaust, the first people to lose their rights in Nazi Germany were the physically and the mentally disabled.
	www.cinemaniastigma.com /pages/7 (4461 words)

	Columbia Law : The Columbia Law School Experience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		I said, “I’d like to go to the law school,” and he said, “That would be fine.” Then I said—because at that point I was married, and I was living on what had been my clothes allowance—“I’d like a little financial help.” He said OK....
		I think I always felt comfortable and, contrary to some stories I have heard from women who graduated later and from other law schools, that the women sat on one side and the boys on the other, my recollection is that we were accepted as part of the student body without separation....
		Suddenly the law school was transformed from a small, fairly intimate place—a few women, and a few more men, into a mob scene of veterans, many of them older, like the one that my friend Katie married.
	www.law.columbia.edu /alumni/articles/oralhistory/experience (2782 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week
		Goldfeder, a law professor at Fordham University, believes Dear will be able to run because only the section pertaining to incumbents who have served less than eight years was addressed in a court battle over the revision, which was upheld on appeal after it was struck down by a lower court.
		New York’s law was killed in February when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of lower court rulings that the law is constitutionally unkosher.
		Jewish readers of “Living History,” the memoir by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton that has earned a mention or two in the press, may find a few references of particular interest.
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=8097 (1442 words)

	A View of WWII and Germany
		The very first law passed by the Nazi controlled parliament of the territory of East Prussia in 1933, under the premiership of Herman Goering, was the abolition of vivisection, or experimentation on animals.
		This law also included a ban on the Jewish ritual whereby meat is made kosher: the ritual includes the slitting of an animal's throat and letting it bleed to death while a rabbi prays over the dying animal: this was rejected by the Nazis as a barbaric way of slaughtering animals which inflicted unnecessary pain.
		The Jewish declaration of war was carried publicly by a large number of newspapers, including the Daily Express in London, which ran a bold full page headline "Judea Declares War on Germany" on its edition of 24 March 1933.
	www.tks.org /europa.htm (7361 words)

	Hebrew Law
		The Jewish Bible is divided into three parts: the Law (Torah), the Prophets, and a miscellaneous group of works known as the Writings, which correspond roughly to the Christian Old Testament.
		An orthodox Jew is expected to observe strictly all of the laws (except, of course those relating to ritual sacrifice which were suspended after the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE).
		Unlike in Christianity, belief is not the central issue--obedience is. The delivery of the law is depicted as the aftermath of generations of slavery in Egypt followed by forty years of wandering in the wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/hebrew_law.html (2510 words)

	Books-on-Law: Book Reviews
		Jacobs and Potter state their thesis clearly at the outset: hate crime laws were not passed by the federal government and the majority of states in the 1980s because of a lacuna in the criminal law.
		Margaret A. Berger is the Suzanne J. and Norman Miles Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, the co-author of Weinstein’s Evidence, and author of "Evidentiary Framework" in the Federal Judicial Center’s Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (1994).
		After all, like the law itself, rules or conventions of writing are simply reflections of policies, strategies, and objectives, and the rules or conventions should be sufficiently adaptable to work flexibly in a variety of contexts.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /lawbooks/revsep99.htm (12555 words)

	Marijuana Timeline - A History of Marijuana - Concept420 - Marijuana Entertainment and Information
		The Marijuana, cannabis, or hemp plant is one of the oldest psychoactive plants known to humanity.
		Cannabis preparations have been used as remedies for thousands of years and the active ingredients of the hemp plant can be put to use in a multitude of medical conditions.
		They were permitted to plant their cannabis between rows of cane, and to smoke it between harvests.
	www.concept420.com /marijuana_cannabis_history_timeline.htm (1749 words)

	Posts tagged with history \| MetaFilter
		History, horrors, leaders, literary figures, lots of pop stars and inevitably, the Last Supper.
		First Nations Histories is a site with compact histories of 48 first nations, from the Abenaki to the Winnebago, written by Lee Sultzman.
		The history of cake has been long and varied, and many have interesting histories.
	www.metafilter.com /tags/history (3436 words)

	Lifeline
		I could dedicate this column to the smoking debate for many weeks to come, but alas, other issues are waiting to be dealt with.
		I think we must distinguish between people who smoke privately and therefore are not hurting others in the process, and those who obnoxiously smoke with an ''In Your Face'' type of attitude.
		While I know there are many who smoke cigarettes and don't do drugs, parents and educators must be aware that for many others, there is a direct connection between their smoking habit and those other addictive habits that they pick up later.
	www.jewishpress.com /page.do/13867/Lifeline.html (984 words)

	JewishFamily.com \|\| Jewish Celebrations
		The interest in Jewish themes may be part of the wave of multiculturalism-from African- to Asian-American--that has captured public imagination, says Gail Hochman, an agent with Brandt and Brandt Literary Agents.
		Three themes predominate in contemporary Jewish fiction, says Hochman: the legacy of the Holocaust, survival in Israel, or living in the secular world as a practicing Jew.
		Rather than being in competition with one another, they draw more readers, many of whom are Jewish and seeking a connection to their own past.
	www.jewishfamily.com /jc/holidays/displayjc.php?text=http://www.jewishfamily.com/culture/profiles/new_jewish_womens_fiction.txt (1483 words)

	History of New Bedford
		History of New Bedford The history of New Bedford as recorded by the English began four centuries ago and pre-dates the Pilgrims of Plymouth by 18 years.
		A milestone event in city history occurred in November 1996 when Congress designated 34 acres of the city's downtown historic district as the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park.
		In addition, a continued increase in the number of galleries, museums, and cultural events is earning New Bedford recognition as "a city of art, " attracting professional artists, art patrons and visitors of all interests drawn to the city's growing artistic vibrancy.
	www.ci.new-bedford.ma.us /TOURISM/NewTourism/ourhistory.asp (5040 words)

	Legal Theory Blog
		Instead, the rule of law, rightly understood as the complex and supple social structure that it is, provided room for the choice that he made.
		Laws that must pass under a strict supermajority rule are apt to be better than laws passed by majority rule.
		Law and economics shows that a key factor in determining the optimal economic loss rule is found in the relationship between pure economic loss and social loss.
	lsolum.blogspot.com /archives/2005_06_01_lsolum_archive.html (11566 words)

	Jewish Law - Articles ("Physician - Assisted Suicide: A Halachic Approach")
		In practice, we generally assume that most suicides are the result of unbearable stress, pain, or depression and do not fall within the category of a premeditated, volitional act that is subject to these sanctions.
		In a fascinating essay, the late Rabbi Shlomo Zevin demonstrated that, under Jewish law, Antonio's agreement to give Shylock a "pound of flesh" would be null and void because Antonio's very body is not his own to give away.
		Granted that there may be occasions when aggressive, life-prolonging treatment need not be administered or may even be discontinued, the allowing of the natural process of death to occur by withdrawal of treatment is a far cry from actively terminating life.
	www.jlaw.com /Articles/suicide.html (1331 words)

	Good Medicine -- II. The Health Care and Health Status of Israelis
		If we take a closer look at the various Jewish communities within Israel, we will find that affluent Jewish communities, which have a majority of residents of Ashkenazi (Europe, the Americas) origin, have lower infant mortality rates than development towns, most of whose residents are of Mizrahi (Asia and Africa) origin.
		Smoking is considered the single most important behavioral causative factor of morbidity and mortality: a 1996 national telephone survey found that 30% of Israeli men and 25% of women smoked (average in U.S. for men and women combined — 25%).
		Within the Jewish population, if we look at country-origin groups, we find that women born in Asia or Africa have the highest fertility rates, 3.2, and European or Russian-born the lowest, 2.2 and 1.7, respectively.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/med/two.html (3374 words)

	Introduction to "The Wars of the Lord"
		The American Jewish horizon was dominated by Isaac M. Wise as Generalissimo with Dr. [Max] Lilienthal as his first aide-de-camp.
		It may not be amiss to say here that Isaac M. Wise was himself far from the radicalism of Einhorn and that of the so-called reformers of this latter day [1914].
		It is related that when the large building [on the southwest corner of Vine and Third Streets in Cincinnati] (at the time the largest of its kind) built for the clothing house of Heidelbach and Seasongood had been about completed, (1859), they invited a number of their friends to a preliminary view thereof.
	www.jewish-history.com /Illoway/introduction.html (2712 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)