Whereas one's first assumption concerning women living under strict rules governing their sexuality might be that these women are out of relationship with themselves and their bodies, this was not the case with the Israeli Orthodox Jewish women whom we interviewed. Whether they rejected or accepted...
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the *MOABITE* women led Jewish men astray (in to “idolatry”)? Do you not realize that the BIBLE BRAGS that the Jewish warriors – after SLAUGHTERING *all* the MIDIANITE MEN – brought the captive women & children TO MOSES & THE JEW HIGH PRIESTS… and BLOODY, EVIL “prophet” MOSES ...
Jewish women: the Jewish Mother and the Jewish American Princess. The story of "Hannah P": recovering Portnoy's sister On the other, Mollie's mostly deplorable actions throughout the film present the modern Jewish woman as immature, selfish, materialistic, and aggressive (presaging the "Jewish...
was given to the Jewish people in a mass revelation at Mount Sinai and that the rabbinical tradition (known as the Oral Law) is a faithful elucidation of divine rules for Jewish living that are obligatory upon all Jews today. It is most prominently distinguished from more liberal approaches ...
Women in Drag: Gender and Performance in the Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Literature Kirsch also reviewed0x20The Lawgiver, from this same late period, and found a writer still seeking the affirmation of Hollywood, but working outside of the mainstream of postwar Jewish literature, while defining...
III. Nashim ("Women") contains the following seven treatises: (1) Yebamot ("Widows Obliged to Contract a Levirate Marriage"); sixteen chapters; deals chiefly with the rules for the levirate marriage and of the Ḥaliẓah, whereby the widow is enabled to contract another marriage (Deut....
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22a). The making of vows was tolerated only when it was done in order to rid oneself of bad habits, or in order to encourage oneself to do good; but even in such cases one should strive for the desired end without the aid of vows (Yoreh De'ah, 203, 207). More specific rules re...
For its part, in the United States, a campus community is a closed-in public defined by a unique set of norms, rules, and bodies that characterize institutions of higher learning. Jewish students, both those who directly engaged the political moment and those who were caught up in the ...