Word: mitzvah
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Indeed, this is a prominent stream of thought in traditional Jewish philosophy. As Rabbi Eliezer Berkovits argues in his essay “A Jewish Sexual Ethics,” while many Christian denominations advocate a repression of sensual desire, Judaism humanizes sexuality by framing its pleasure as a mitzvah if it is experienced in the proper context. Although procreation is paramount and pre-marital sex is strictly forbidden in Orthodox Judaism, physical gratification itself is viewed as anything but corrosive. On the contrary, the Talmud records that it was common practice for Torah scholars to have sex their wives...
When do girls finally become women and boys finally become men? As a child, I used to think of the teenage years as being the magic bridge to the land of “grown-ups.” Cultural coming-of-age rites, such Bar and Bat Mitzvah and quinceñera celebrations, occur at ages 13 and 15 respectively, and all the Disney princesses appear to get picked up by charming princes and whisked off to a castle by the time they...
...Bram A. Strochlic is the incoming Movies Editor. His Bar Mitzvah was movie-themed...
...weeks leading up to his son's bar mitzvah, Larry is subject to a catalog of social crimes, small and large. His wife Judy (Sari Lennick) has become close with family friend Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed); she wants Sy to move in and Larry to stay at the Jolly Roger. Larry and Judith's son (Aaron Wolff) is slumming through Hebrew school and harangues Dad to adjust the rooftop TV aerial so F Troop can come in clearly. Their daughter (Jessica McManus) thinks only getting a nose job and washing her hair, which she can't do nearly enough...
...also cited a recent scandal involving taxpayer money and a lavish bar mitzvah staged by a convict in a Manhattan lockdown known as the Tombs. Yeah, that was a situation where a prison was being used as a party palace. Some of the inmates there were pretty wealthy, and officials were bringing special food in for special parties. I think that attitude adds insult to injury as far as how the taxpayers feel about the high cost of incarceration...