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he quotes in this paragraph are from Golinkin’s article Rabbi David M. Feldman in“Forum.” Moment, June 1991, 16:2, 4, concludes the genetic enhancement technology is“interdicted for its own sake and for possible misuse.” See also Feldman. Birth Control in Jewish Law(New York , 1968), p 331. Earher, Conservative Rabbi Lawrence Trester in,“Therapy or Engineering: Jewish Responses
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concluded that the production of a blue-eyed child as a preference“is unwarranted.”
34. Matt Ridley , Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters(New York , 1999), pp. 297-299
35. Central Conference of American Rabbis, Responsum 20.“Genetic Engineering, ” Walter Jacob , Contemporary American Reform Responsa(New York , 1987), p. 33 The golem concept is mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud (San 65b). Byron L Sherwin provides a helpful overview of the golem legends in a chapter"The Moral Implications of the Golem Legend” in his book /n Partnership with God: Contemporary Jewish Law and Ethics(Syracuse , 1990)
36. In contrast, Rabbi Dorff sees genetic engineering and our creativity as turning“on us, to the point of imperiling our very existence.” Dorff, Matters of Life and Death, p-312
37. CCAR Responsum 20.“Genetic Engineering, ” p. 34. See also Rabbi Michael J Brode,“Genetically Engineering People: A Jewish Law Analysis of Personhood,” St. Thomas Law Review, Summer 2001, 13: 4, 877-899, at 893
38. Mark S. Frankel and Audrey R. Chapman, Human Inheritable Genetic Modifications: Assessing Scientific, Ethical, Religious, and Policy Issues (Washington, DC , 2000), pp. 8, 31-32, 35-40, Resnik, Steinkraus, Langer, Ffuman Germline Gene Therapy, pp. 85-167; Walters and Palmer, The Ethics of Human Gene Therapy, pp. 108-133.
39. See, e.g., Frankel and Chapman, Human Inheritable Genetic Modifications, pp 31-32, 39-40; Audrey R. Chapman,“Religious Perspectives on Human Germ Line Modifications,” Beyond Cloning: Religion and the Remaking of Humanity (Harrisburg , 2001), pp. 72-74. Leon R.-Kass comments negatively on the commodification of human life in“The Moral Meaning of Genetic Technology,” Commentary, September 1999, 108:2, 32-38, p. 36