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Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Sex and Intimacy Paperback – May 3, 2010

by Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff (Editor), Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (Editor)

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In the newest addition to the Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices series, co-editors Elliot Dorff and Danya Ruttenberg have brought together a diverse group of Jews to comment on how Judaism affects their views and actions regarding sex. Contributors range from adult movie actor Ron Jeremy, to renowned feminist scholar Martha Ackelsberg, to noted writer and blogger Esther Kustanowitz, as well as rabbis, doctors, social workers, and activists. They discuss issues of monogamy, honesty, and communication in dating and marriage; testing for and disclosure of STDs; abortion, sex education, sex work, and sexuality. Each volume in this series presents hypothetical cases on specific topics, followed by traditional and contemporary sources. Supplementing these are brief essays, written by contributors of various ages, backgrounds, and viewpoints to provoke lively thought and discussion. These voices from Jewish tradition and today’s Jewish community present us with new questions and perspectives, encouraging us to consider our own moral choices in a new light.

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Notable Jewish names in sexuality, religion, and medicine tackle, with remarkable frankness but without novelty, questions of morality and propriety surrounding dating, sexual behavior, and pornography in this academic volume. Four case studies present couples struggling with sexual issues of ambiguous morality. The relevant biblical, rabbinic, and contemporary sources follow, including conservative and reform outlooks and the opinions of such pop culture Jewish figures as Shmuley Boteach and Ruth K. Westheimer. Offering the full gamut of perspectives, from adult entertainment mogul Ron Jeremy to orthodox rabbi Mark Dratch - and covering a broad spectrum of subjects (sex work, ménage à trois, etc.) - the compilation provides many useful recommendations. But some of them seem self-evident: AIDS doctor Jeffrey Burack pleads for full and early disclosure of STDs to prospective partners, and Hanne Blank cautions against prostitution. Despite the fascination often associated with sex, this volume is somewhat dry and predictable. Nevertheless, the contributors do offer meaningful suggestions for honesty and emotional involvement on a subject matter that they believe contemporary society regards as taboo and impersonal.
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Each volume in this series presents hypothetical cases on specific topics, followed by traditional and contemporary sources. Supplementing these are brief essays, written by contributors of various ages, backgrounds, and viewpoints to provoke lively thought and discussion. These voices from Jewish tradition and today's Jewish community present us with new questions and perspectives, encouraging us to consider our own moral choices in a new light.

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Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices
Sex and Intimacy

Modern Jews explore critical issues in today's open sexual environment.

In the fourth volume of this acclaimed Jewish Voices, Jewish Choices series, Jews of various ages and backgrounds examine sensitive issues such as monogamy, honesty, and communication in dating and marriage; testing for and disclosure of STDs; abortion, sex education, sex work, and sexuality. The opinions are as diverse as the contributors: from adult movie actor Ron Jeremy, to renowned feminist scholar Martha Ackelsberg, to noted writer and blogger Esther Kustanowitz, as well as rabbis, doctors, social workers and activists. Hypothetical case studies and Jewish source texts provide additional insights into personal, yet thought-provoking topics as they are considered in a whole new light.

Elliot N. Dorff is the co-editor of the first three volumes of Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices and author of three other JPS books on Jewish ethics: To Do the Right and the Good, Love Your Neighbor and Yourself, and Matters of Life and Death. Dorff is the chairman of the Committee of Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly and is currently rector and Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the American Jewish University of Los Angeles.

Danya Ruttenberg is the author of Surprised by God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion and editor of The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism and Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism. She is a contributing editor to Lilith and the academic journal Women and Judaism, and is on the editorial board of (and blogs at) Jewschool.com. Ruttenberg serves as senior Jewish educator at Tufts University.

Please note: Some of the covered subject matter is explicit in nature and may not be appropriate for all audiences.

Other titles in the series include:
Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Body
Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Money
Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Power

About the Author

Elliot N. Dorff, is rector and Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the American Jewish University. Among the 12 books he has written are three award-winning Jewish Publication Society titles on Jewish ethics. Since 1984, Dorff has served on the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, currently as its chair.

Danya Ruttenberg, co-editor with Elliot Dorff on the Sex and Intimacy volume, is the author and editor of various books as well as a contributing editor to Lilith and the academic journal Women and Judaism. She received her rabbinic ordination from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University. Ruttenberg is the Senior Jewish Educator at Tufts University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY; 1st edition (May 3, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0827609051
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0827609051
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg is the author of the National Jewish Book Award-winning On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unrepentant World (Beacon), also an American Library Association Sophie Brody Honor Medal winner. She is also the author of Nurture the Wow: Finding Spirituality in the Frustration, Boredom, Tears, Poop, Desperation, Wonder, and Radical Amazement of Parenting (Flatiron), a National Jewish Book Award finalist, and Surprised By God: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Religion (Beacon), which was nominated for the Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature.

She writes full-time at LifeIsASacredText dot com. You can find her work on spirituality, justice, and the messy business of being a person there.

She was named by Newsweek as one of 10 “rabbis to watch,” as one of 21 “faith leaders to watch” by the Center for American Progress, has been a Washington Post Sunday crossword clue (83 Down) and has been honored with the "Lives of Commitment" award by Auburn Seminary and the "Rabbinic Human Rights Hero Award" by the human rights org T'ruah. She is also editor of The Passionate Torah: Sex and Judaism (NYU Press) and Yentl's Revenge: The Next Wave of Jewish Feminism (Seal Press).

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