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Sex in the Talmud uncovered in different ‘Shades’
Jonathan Kirsch
March 16, 2016
According to a pious tradition, the unmarried men in a yeshivah were asked to leave the study hall whenever the rabbi began to teach one of the passages of the Talmud that frankly address the subject of sex, an act known in talmudic usage as “the mitzvah act.”
Talmudic temptation
Jewish Journal
May 21, 2015
From a glass-enclosed cabinet in her Westchester home office, historical novelist Maggie Anton removed a small clay pot.
Calendar Picks and Clicks: August 3-10, 2012
Ryan Torok
August 1, 2012
The Skirball screens four documentaries that address the richness, complexity and inherent contradictions of the Jewish experience in the modern age.
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