The Body Issue

From the Editors

Featured Artist
Rachel Rafael Neis
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From the President

From the Executive Director

Me, Myself, and I (and Marginal Bodies of Ottoman Jews)
Canan Bolel

Muscular Judaism Alla Turca?
Murat C. Yıldız

The Golem: Old Monster, New Horrors
Olga Gershenson

Breaking Taboos: Jewish Women Performing the Vamp on the Indian Screen
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg

Embodying Herself: A Jewish Feminist Approach to Body Liberation
Amy K. Milligan

Orthodox Female Clergy Embodying Religious Authority
Michal Raucher

Must Jewish Medical Ethics regarding Infertility Be Viewed Solely through a Gendered (Halakhic) Lens?
Ira Bedzow and Lila Kagedan

The Body of the Shekhinah at the Threshold of Domestic Violence
Jeremy P. Brown

Charlotte Delbo’s Drama of Elimination
Holli Levitsky

The Yoga Journey of Elisabeth G., Nazi Prisoner #67123
(an essay between two photographs)
Cathryn Keller

Mixed-Sex Dancing and Jewish Modernity
Sonia Gollance

Dancing on the Edge of a Rainbow: Margot Mink Colbert’s ballet, TRANSIT(ION): Emigration Transformation
Roberta Sabbath

Embodying Palestine Solidarity: A Jewish Dance Artist Grapples with Identity and Accountability
Nicole Bindler

Choreographer Daniel Nagrin’s "Man of Action": A Photo Essay
Diane Wawrejko

Fully Embodied Jewish Existence
Leon Wiener Dow

The Shluva Project— My Grandmother’s Grandmother: The Embodiment of a New Work of Choreographic Research 
Miriam Phillips

Bound: Isaac, Immortality, and Ageism in the Academy
David N. Gottlieb

Who May Come to America? Integrating Disability into Jewish Studies
Hannah Greene

Just Like Everyone Else: Jewish College Sororities and Acculturation in Mid-Twentieth-Century America
Shira Kohn

The Spanish Docks in 1492
Patricio Boyer

Whipping the Words of Ezekiel into His Own Back: A Conversation on Portraying Biblical Violence
T. M. Lemos

Active Sitting in the Round: How the Body Can Learn Sacred Texts through Circus Arts
Ora Horn Prouser and Ayal C. Prouser