Men & Women

Each man stands between two females: the corporeal woman below to whom he must provide sustenance and affection; and the Shechinah which stands over him to bless him with these so that he may turn around and provide them to the woman of his covenant

Popular gender stereotypes are not merely incorrect, they're outright harmful

The year is the same, the days are the same, but the months are different. It is a time quite individual -- created by G-d, especially for me...

The confluence of solar and lunar time in the 19-year Jewish calendar cycle

Is the mystique and the romance, the music and the moonlight, just nature's way of hoodwinking men and women to reproduce?

Everyone can become a “mother.” What comes naturally to the female half of creation can be learned and assimilated by all, and not only in giving birth to children but in every one of life’s endeavors.

Is it true that G-d in Jewish teachings is patriarchal--that is, thoroughly imbued with male characteristics and values?

The text of the traditional engagement contract alludes to the cosmic energies which are unleashed by a Jewish marriage, a throwback to the supernal mechanisms which led to the creation of the worlds.

What does it mean to be a man? a woman? Neither Freud nor Friedan has made the slightest difference. They have simply unleashed new misconceptions, novel frustrations and social woes as men and women persist in misunderstanding themselves and each ...

The classical interpretation is that Leah and Dinah’s behavior is being condemned as unbecoming the Jewish woman’s virtue of “innerness.” But a careful analysis of the source texts shows the very opposite to be the case . . .