Rabbi Cosgrove: Gender, Intermarriage, and Jewish Identity (November 20, 2021)
Shabbat • 20m
Why are we more confident that a child born to an intermarried Jewish woman will identify Jewishly more readily than the child of an intermarried Jewish man? Drawing on the Biblical story of Dinah, Rabbi Cosgrove opens a conversation on the dynamics of gender, intermarriage, and Jewish identity.
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