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opposed to euthanasia and physician assisted suicide. See CEJA Report B— A-91, “Decisions Near the End of Life,” adopted June 1991(JAMA. 1992; 267: 22292233); Updated June 19:96) http://www.amaassn.org/amal/pub/upload/mm/codemedical-ethics/221a.pdf(accessed August 13, 2010).
12. See Hilkhot HaRosh, Moed Katan 3:97 in the name of his teacher R. Meir of Rothenburg; Tur and Shulchan Arukh Yoreh Deah 339:2, and Beit Shmuel to Shulchan Arukh Even Haezer 17, note 94(end).
13. Newman(note 1, above), p. 37.
14.1, too, owe much to the writings of these scholars of jurisprudence, and a great deal of my own academicwork has attempted to apply their insights to the halakhic context. See, for example,“Torture, Terrorism, and the Halakhah, ” in Walter Jacob , ed., War and Terrorism in Jewish Law(Pittsburgh : Solomon B.Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah,2010), pp. 13-50;“Narratives of Enlightenment: On the Use of the‘Captive Infant’ Story by Recent Halakhic Authorities,” in Walter Jacob , ed., Napoleon's Influence on Jewish Law(Pittsburgh : Rodef Shalom Press, 2007), pp. 93-147;“Halachah , Aggadah , and Reform Jewish Bioethics: A Response,” CCAR Journal 53:3(Summer, 2006), pp. 81-106;“Against Method: On Halakhah and Interpretive Communities,” in Walter Jacob , ed., Beyond the Letter of the Law: Essays on Diversity in the Halakhah(Pittsburgh : Rodef Shalom Press, 2004) pp. 17-77;“Taking Precedent Seriously: On Halakhah as a Rhetorical Practice,” in Walter Jacob and Moshe Zemer , eds., Re-Examining Reform Halakhah(New Y ork: Berghahn Books, 2002), pp. 1-70;“Halakhah in Translation: The Chatam Sofer on Prayer in the Vernacular,” CCAR Journal 51:3(Summer, 2004), 142-163;“Responsa and the Art of Writing: Three Examples from the Teshuvot of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, ” in Peter S. Knobel and Mark N. Staitman, eds., An American Rabbinate: A Festschrift for Walter Jacob (Pittsburgh : Rodef Shalom Press, 2001), pp. 149-204;“Abortion and the Halakhic Conversation: A Liberal Perspective,” in Walter Jacob and Moshe Zemer , eds., The Fetus and Fertility in Jewish Law(Pittsburgh , Freehof Institute of Progressive Halakhah, 1995), pp. 39-89;“Responsa and Rhetoric: On Law, Literature, and the Rabbinic Decision,” Pursuing the Text: Studies in Honor of Ben Zion Wacholder(London , Sheffield Press, 1994), pp. 360-409; and“Halakhah and Political Theory: A Study in Jewish Legal Response to Modernity,” Modern Judaism , October, 1989, pp. 289310.