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Ask JTF For May 13 Broadcast

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Dr. Dan:
Chaim- Thank you for answering my question last week.  A follow-up: Name one book (in English) that I can read in regards to what the rabbis said about our forefather Yitzhak (and perhaps Abraham and Yaacov).

My question for ths week:

What is the real Jewish persepective of abortion concerning the following scenarios?

-mother's life in danger that she might die from child birth
-rape
-mental retardation or a more debilitating genetic defect for the unborn child
-financial problems for the family
-mental problems which may develop on the mother (eg. severe post-partum depression)
-adulterous affair resulting in shame or embarrassment
-unmarried mother resulting in shame or embarrassment

I know in at least one of the scenarios an abortion is allowed. So does that make us pro-choice or pro-life? (Probably pro-life, but not pro-fetus...)

mord:
Dear Chaim don'nt you think Jewish youths  :Dmust toughen up i work out 2hrs 4x a week plus train in martial arts,do you think the people here who work out , train in martial arts and served in the military should start groups to train younger Jews

judeanoncapta:
Dear Chaim, I've been listening to a lot of old tapes of Rabbi Kahane's radio interviews recently. He says many times that Jews are not a race because any Gentile who converts is just as Jewish as someone who was born Jewish. While this is true for a Yisrael, this is simply not true for a Levi or Cohen, as Rabbi Kahane obviously was. Even if I was the biggest Tzaddik in the world, I could never eat Terumah, enter the heichal, or do any of the myriad things that only a Cohen or a Kahana or a Katz can do.

The Torah itself refers to Jews who are not from the seed of Aharon as "Zarim" strangers. I accept this because I believe in the Torah and I accept that I will never be worthy of entering the Heichal of Hashem no matter what I do, even though a regular Kohen can do so. But isn't there an aspect of Chosenness, Israelite or Kohanic that is in fact based on Blood?

Trumpeldor:
In the past, you've talked about why Islam is a greater threat to the west than communism and the Soviet Union. The argument essentially boil down to the fact that the dirty ragheads will actually nuke us while the Soviets would not. You grew up during the age of the threat of nuclear war. How can you honestly say that the Soviets were not planning our destruction anymore than the Muslims are now?

kahaneloyalist:
Dear Chaim, thank you for answering our questions each week.

Could you write a activist's handbook, based upon your many years of righteous actions for the Jewish people, which tells us how to do things like organize rallies, set up organizations, create propoganda, etc. I know you are very busy but such a handbook would be extremely helpful to Jews who want to organize but lack the knowledge

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