Monday, December 14, 2009

Rabbi Lookstein :Sexual ethics course at Ramaz


NYTimes

Nearing his ninth decade, formal in vested suit and cufflinks, Rabbi Haskel Lookstein strode purposefully into a classroom of Ramaz High School on Manhattan's Upper East Side one recent Monday afternoon. He checked the presence and location of his 18 students against a seating chart. He chided one for arriving moments late.

Then he led off the discussion of the homework assignment. It consisted of an article from the national Jewish newspaper, The Forward, about a married couple who participate avidly in both synagogue and swinging. "Aren't these people just being honest?" Rabbi Lookstein asked. Five or six hands immediately shot up.

So began another day in Jewish Sexual Ethics, the course better known around Ramaz, even to its teacher, as "Sex With the Rabbi." For the last 23 years, since Rabbi Lookstein devised the class, he has taught it to every 10th grader to pass through Ramaz, a Modern Orthodox institution combining rigorous secular and religious curriculums.[...]

2 comments:

  1. Recipients and PublicityDecember 16, 2009 at 7:06 AM

    Come to think of, this may have been the perfect course for Tropper to have taken, he may have learned at least a drop of human decency from his hated Modern Orthodox rivals.

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  2. nice post. thanks.

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