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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: The Tragedy of Heruta: The Madonna who Became a Whore – Gila Fine
Description: A virtual event presentation by Gila FineEVENT CO-SPONSORED BY:BMH-BJABOUT THE EVENT:Why are women divided into saintly and seductive? How does a married couple go for years without intimacy? And why must the wife dress up as a prostitute to show her husband who she really is? The domestic drama of R. Hiyya and his wife, read through Demosthenes and Nahmanides, Sigmund Freud and Oscar Wilde, Immanuel Kant and Martin Buber, Ruth Calderon and Mad Men.ABOUT THE SPEAKER:Gila Fine is editor in chief of Maggid...