The evaluation and management of infertility problems in Orthodox Jewish couples can be made difficult because of restrictions which may be imposed by religious rules. The origins of the religious laws governing semen collection, diagnostic and therapeutic genital surgery, menstruation, and homologous and...
apple). in addition, the ultra-orthodox males seem to have strict and clear rules for every thing in life - how to do it/not do it. this may help ppl with anxiety to function. but what if someone (non-anxious) grows up with such a pre-organized...
In 1977, conjoined twins were born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Lakewood, New Jersey; they were treated at Children’s Hospital in Philadelphia. Fo
The Epistle readings vary from year to year, but usually for the first Sunday of Advent it is from St Paul’s Letter to the Galatians, in which he warns them that the Jewish leadership “would compel you to be circumcised,” even though “not even those who are circumcised keep the law...
Early Christian thought was not in any sense comparable or equivalent to prior Jewish or Greco-Roman traditions. The Church's teaching represented a significant departure from Aristotelian thought, and from the beginning regarded abortion as abhorrent and an abomination before God. The biologically ...
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...
Moreover, the participants' very perceptive critiques of rabbinic/halachic attitudes indicate that they also perturb the underpinnings of the fundamental Orthodox rules of male halachic hegemony throughout their daily practice.doi:10.1007/s12397-019-09295-1Rivka Neriya Ben Shahar...
Neturei Karta is an ultra-Orthodox anti-Zionist Jewish group that has protested Zionism and the existence of the State of Israel. Founded in the late 1930s by Amram Blau, it has waged a campaign of protests against perceived violations of Jewish religiou
In line with findings that nurses from minority groups have an important role in making health services accessible to their community, our study aimed to identify the challenges ultra-Orthodox Jewish nurses faced during COVID-19 in their encounters with patients and health staff from other communitie...
“The body of the new Jewish male was supposed to be tall, muscular through exercise and tanned from the physical labor under the hot sun”, Hakak writes. “The Jewish male was supposed to be assertive and self-confident–this is still a paradigm for most Jewish Israeli males, particularly...