Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Sex and Intimacy - Softcover

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