What Is Your Favorite Jewish Joke—And Why?

Judaism is generally very positive about sex, regarding it as a divine gift and a holy obligation — both for the purposes of procreation and for pleasure and intimacy. The Talmud specifies not merely that a husband is required to be intimate with his wife, but sources also indicate that he is obliged to sexually satisfy her. Instead, sexual activity is highly circumscribed in Jewish tradition, as the rabbis of the Talmud sought to use the human libido as a tool for increasing the population and strengthening marriage. Traditional Jewish law not only prohibits many types of sexual relationships, but it also dictates specific parameters even for permitted ones. And while Judaism is broadly permissive when it comes to sex between married adults, the same is not true for sexual activity outside of a committed relationship. Adultery — traditionally defined as sexual intercourse between a married woman and a man who is not her husband — is forbidden in the seventh of the Ten Commandments and is among the most serious infractions in Judaism. Indeed several of the key figures in the Bible engaged in sexual relationships and fathered children with women who were not their wives, including the patriarchs Abraham and Jacob. The Torah and later rabbinic writings also recognize the category of concubine pilegesh in Hebrew.

Account from Jewish American Heritage Month. Lauren Le Vine. Why is May altered from all other months? Because visibility is more important than ever ahead of, Refinery29 brings you our celebration of Jewish American culture. There is denial template for a Jewish woman. Again: There is no template. A Fran Fine-esque nasally voice does not appear from all of our mouths.

Are you hungry? Did you want two bagels stacked with spreads on spreads on spreads, my mom will ask you when you visit. And twenty minutes after you've walked in. After that again an hour later. The acceptable answer is always yes and the correct follow-up question is This be obliged to be your mother's recipe, right? You call that thing from the hypermarket a bagel? More like a nay -gel. Not sorry.

Concern of Jewish women's lives and experiences during the Holocaust became a main concern only late in the 20th century. Scholars focused on women's roles at the same time as homemakers, wives, breadwinners, supporters and resistors, with little, if any, attention compensate to their reproductive or sexual lives. Many considered that the Rassenschande laws shielded Jewish women from the most awful horrors of rape and sexual batter leading to little investigation of this issue. Women were reluctant to address of such intimate events, and researchers were hesitant to ask about them for fear of causing further ache. Concern for the sensationalizing of women's experiences also inhibited investigation of this aspect of women's lives. Significant acts of emotional, sexual and physical batter of women, were, however, perpetrated as a result of the Nazis and others against men and women, Jews and non-Jews, as well as humiliating nudity, rape and physical batter.