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Inspired
Inspired is the nation's leading public radio show about faith, ethics and spirituality. Each week we offer you analyses of the big headlines alongside lesser-told stories – those of Orthodox Jewish artists and African-American atheists, Muslim feminists and spiritual seekers. Through these stories, a rough sketch of our country’s religious landscape begins to emerge. It’s a marketplace of beliefs and ideas too complex for sound bites, and too important to ignore.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex and Judaism*
(*But Were Afraid to Ask)
She’s Jewish, she’s 4-foot-7, and she likes to see the Torah as an ancient sex manual. Dr. Ruth Westheimer is a sex therapist and author of “Heavenly Sex: Sexuality in the Jewish Tradition.“ The one and only Dr. Ruth explains the sanctity of sex – good sex – in Jewish law.
Saying “I Do” In an Interfaith Relationship
Christmas tree or Menorah? Honey baked ham or brisket? CCD or Hebrew School? For the nearly 40 percent of Americans in mixed-religion marriages, (many of which are Catholic-Jewish,) what to do about holidays and religious school are just a few of the worries that often come up. Interfaith marriage counselor Mary Helen Rosenbaum says, fear not: there are practical ways to make it work over the long haul. We’re also joined by two interfaith couples who share their own experience. Mary Helene Rosenbaum is co-author of “Celebrating Our Differences: Living Two Faiths in One Marriage.”
Special thanks to Interfaith Families Project of Greater Washington and Jewish-Catholic Family Network.
