Judaism and Human Sexuality

Human Sexuality and Adolescence

1 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel 2 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 3 Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 4 Division of Adolescent Medicine, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, University of Kentucky, ...

Human Sexuality

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Judaism and women's health.

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2009: 35(1) Jewish law Jewish law consists of two sections: written law and oral law. The foundation of the written law and the origin of its authority is the Torah, the first five books of the Bible. The Torah is traditionally believed to have been given in a theophany on Mount Sinai and to contain the literal direct word of God. After the destruction of th...

Behavioral and Phenomenological Judaism

Judaism and reproductive technology.

Reproductive technology offers a bewildering number of options for infertile men and women to have children, including ovary and testis freezing, transplantation, in vitro fertilization (IVF), donor sperm, donor eggs, stem cells, gestational surrogacy, genetic diagnosis of embryos, and, of course, birth control. These technologies cut to the very core of personal and religious belief systems. T...