“The strength of Ri’s lectures was exactly the fact that he not only conscientiously worked off of a rich tradition, but also…”
The strength of Ri’s lectures was exactly the fact that he not only conscientiously...
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“To make a woman a wife is to demonstrate the permeability of her body in the act of deflowering (or consummation); thereafter, her body is available for his use. She has no similar claim on his body”
Carole M. Counihan has observed, however, that bodies are not always necessarily equally permeable;...
“The relationship between rabbinic rhetoric, even rabbinic constructions of sexuality and actual Jewish female life and practice is far from clear”
Rabbinic texts are androcentric. The relationship between rabbinic rhetoric, even rabbinic constructions of sexuality...
“Newly married Orthodox couples may struggle with the stark contrast between sexual abstinence and the anticipation and expectation that sexual intercourse occurs immediately…”
Newly married Orthodox couples may struggle with the stark contrast between sexual abstinence and...
“…metaphors that associate sex with eating, sexual partners with food, and/or sexual desire with hunger/appetite are not unique to rabbinic Judaism”
One detail that stands out in this particular attempt to bring the Torah of...
“There is a dramatic imbalance between the way Jews perceive themselves and the ways we are perceived by others”
There is a dramatic imbalance between the way Jews perceive themselves and the ways...
“The aspects of secular Jewish culture that America has embraced are barely Jewish anymore…”
…as Jews have moved fully into the cultural mainstream, it’s become harder to identify...
Rabbenu Tam “forged his own path through the vast Talmud, and his personality stands at the fore of independent Tosafist dialectics”
Although Riba’s commentary is the earliest extant representative of the initial stage of the...
“…the relevance of Israel to the younger generation of American Jews is not self-evident…”
Jewish students on campus do not need heavily curated fact-sheets or pro-Israel YouTube videos...
“There is no source anywhere indicating that the two foods must have different berachot” for mishloach manot
The basic requirement is to send two portions, but what exactly constitutes “two portions”?...