By Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
Through moving recognition from identical to Jews as a textual group to the methods Jews comprehend and deal with their our bodies for instance, to their matters with copy and sexuality, menstruation and childbirth this quantity contributes to a revisioning of what Jews and Judaism are and feature been. The venture of re-membering the Jewish physique has either old and optimistic motivations. As a positive undertaking, this booklet describes, renews, and participates within the complicated and ongoing glossy dialogue in regards to the nature of Jewish our bodies and where of our bodies in Judaism."
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