No Half Love!
Adam Gilad
March 11, 2004
\”Love is a fine thing,\” the Yiddish saying goes, \”but love with noodles is even tastier.\”
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sex
A Roll in the Snow
Tom Tugend
October 2, 2003
Seldom has the boredom, tension and camaraderie of men and women at war been portrayed more realistically and economically than in this film, which has been a surprise hit among Israeli moviegoers, soldiers and civilians.
Child Molester Sent to Treatment Center
Julie Gruenbaum Fax
February 6, 2003
David Schwartz, a counselor for preschool boys at an Orthodox music and arts camp, was sentenced to one year in residential
treatment and five years\’ probation for molesting a 4-year-old boy in his care at summer camp.
Sex Ed for Parents
Wendy Mogel
April 18, 2002
Somewhere in America, a few high school students made a porno video, \”by accident\” they said, starring themselves. Whatever it was, a couple of kids were fooling around, and someone else had a camera. They showed the tape in the locker room and what followed was, of course, a big scandal. Somewhere else in America, there was an eighth-grade party, mom or dad took pictures, and when the photos came back from the lab, you could see two partygoers having oral sex near the shrubbery in the background of one of the shots. What upset the parents most was that the students weren\’t even trying to hide.
In the Biblical Sense
Beverly Gray
February 21, 2002
Experts agree that Jewish schools — and schools in general — need to do more to teach kids about their bodies and about the whole complex subject of human reproduction.
Sex, Drugs and…Lots of Jews?
Jewish Journal
November 9, 2000
In the introduction to his new book, Guy Oseary – the maverick Maverick music exec responsible for signing Alanis Morrissette and Prodigy onto Madonna\’s label (which he now runs) – writes, \”I was born in Israel and moved to the United States when I was 8 years old. I can still remember how excited I was when I learned that some of my favorite musicians were Jewish – it made me feel proud of my Judaic background and where I came from.\”
Foregoing the Test-Drive
Mark Firestone
January 6, 2000
It may come as a surprise that in today\’s post-sexual revolution world there are still men and women who don\’t have sex before their wedding day.
Keiko Ibi’s “Personal” Journey
Curt Schleier
October 28, 1999
\”The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years,\” an 82-year-old man rinses out his dentures in his solitary apartment and longs for love and sex. Another elderly man laments that he has been impotent since receiving radiation therapy for prostate cancer.
Selma, 73, discusses her sexless marriage, her affairs, the elderly man who tried to rape her and the hopelessness of living alone. \”Touching, it\’s what I miss,\” she confides. \”What I\’d really like is not the sex act itself. I just want to be held.\”
Judaism Between the Sheets
Diane Arieff
March 18, 1999
In these scandalous times, is there anything left to say about sex?
TV offers us All-Monica all the time. The globally accessible Internet offers its own virtual red-light district. Surrounded by wall-to-wall visuals and 24-hour media blather, we\’re inundated with sexual information. Ultimately, inevitably, it has become boring, degenerating into vaguely provocative background noise.
Israeli Vice
Eric Silver
March 19, 1998
The young Lithuanian woman in the prison libraryhas the narrow chest, hunched shoulders and wary eyes of someone whohas known poverty and is not sure where the next blow is coming from.
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