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Tag Archives: rabbinic texts
The Feminist Sexual Ethics Project
Gail Labovitz writes for Brandeis University: There are several rabbinic passages which take up, or very likely take up, the subject of same-sex marital unions – always negatively. In each case, homosexual marriage (particularly male homosexual marriage) is rhetorically stigmatized … Continue reading
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Tagged book of leviticus, Brandeis University, homosexual marriage, literature link, marital unions, rabbinic texts, sexual ethics
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I Interview Solomon Schimmel About His New Book, ‘The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs: Fundamentalism and the Fear of Truth’
Read part two of this transcript here. I find reviews of the book on amazon.com to be all over the place. Paul Shaviv (the principal of a Modern Orthodox day school in Toronto and father of the journalist-blogger Miriam Shaviv) … Continue reading
Posted in Orthodoxy, Solomon Schimmel
Tagged early adulthood, fundamentalist belief, hebrew college, orthodox judaism, rabbinic texts, Solomon Schimmel
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Better To Be Reform Than Secular?
Professor Marc B. Shapiro blogs: Returning to my conversation with R. Hayyim Sarne, which began with a discussion on Weinberg and moved into other areas, I was at his home for a good while and asked him many things. I … Continue reading
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Tagged haredim, Marc B. Shapiro, orthodox groups, professor marc, rabbinic texts, roshei yeshiva
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