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Some Jewish thinkers condone homosexuality, despite the condemnation of homosexual sex in Jewish law.

Should Jewishly-committed single women be encouraged to marry supportive non-Jewish men?

While some meaningful life events go by without any ritual to mark them, too often rituals take place without the participants experiencing any significant meaning.

Judaism may need new categories of sexual relationships in order to adjust to the reality of sex outside marriage.

Though traditional sources on the laws of mourning are quite detailed and specific, an acquaintance with this legal literature reveals a number of overarching themes and principles.

These stories are passed on as teachings about how to die.

A contemporary rabbi offers a prayer to be recited throughout the year by parents who have suffered neonatal loss.

About Death and Mourning in the Jewish community.

An overview of autopsy, organ donation, and cremation in Jewish tradition and practice.

Some traditional Jewish authorities condemn homosexuality, while advocating compassion for individual gays and lesbians.

The Torah does not address lesbianism, but later rabbinic commentators frowned upon it.