Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Judaism and Sex (*But Were Afraid to Ask)

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Date: 22 October 2009

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Heavenly Sex

She’s Jewish, she’s 4-foot-7, and she likes to see the Torah as an ancient sex manual.  The one and only Dr. Ruth explains the sanctity of sex - good sex - in Jewish law.

Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex therapist and author of Heavenly Sex: Sexuality in the Jewish Tradition

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The Scalpel and the Soul

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How should surgeons, trained so carefully to rely on hard facts, explain miraculous recoveries, out-of-body experiences and other-worldly visions in the operating room? Our guest, Dr. Allan Hamilton, is a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon with 30 years of experience.  Once a skeptic, he says he now sees these events as signs of a power far greater than ourselves.

Dr. Allan Hamilton, author of The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope