False Facts and True Rumors : Lashon HaRa in Contemporary Culture

by Daniel Z Feldman

Overview

In False Facts and True Rumors, Rabbi Daniel Feldman undertakes the vital task of examining the halakhic sources regarding lashon hara, derogatory speech, and applying them to today’s technology-driven world. Combining erudite knowledge of rabbinic texts, philosophy, and psychology, Rabbi Feldman explores this uncharted territory of contemporary Jewish life. Among the questions addressed are: How can it be prohibited to convey facts that are true? How can the innocent be protected and society improved in the context of these laws? How do these laws affect areas such as dating and marriage, therapy, business interactions, and comedic performances? How are modern conceptions of privacy and confidentiality impacted? How has the culture of journalism, the Internet, and political campaigning affected, and been affected by, these laws? False Facts and True Rumors offers an essential guide for communicating in today’s fast-paced world, where important information and petty gossip alike are exchanged instantaneously.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781613291153
Publisher:	The Toby Press, LLC
Publication date:	11/01/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Rabbi Daniel Z. Feldman is a Rosh Yeshiva at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University, an instructor in the Syms School of Business and the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, and Executive Editor of the riets initiative of yu Press. An alumnus of Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavneh, he was ordained (Yoreh Yoreh and Yadin Yadin) at riets, where he was a fellow of the Wexner Kollel Elyon. Rabbi Feldman is the author of The Right and The Good: Halakhah and Human Relations, and Divine Footsteps: Chesed and the Jewish Soul, and three volumes of talmudic essays entitled Binah BaSefarim. He is the co-editor of more than ten volumes, serves on the editorial board of Tradition, and has written for publications including Jewish Action, The Orthodox Forum, and the Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics. Rabbi Feldman lectures frequently throughout the United States and abroad. Rabbi Feldman is the spiritual leader of Ohr Saadya of Teaneck, nj, where he resides with his wife Leah and their children.