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By Steve Israel

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CHAPTER FIVE:Those Who don’t Fit the Model: Family Situations and Status in Judaism and the Jewish World

A: Background

1. Introduction
2. Re-establishing the Basis. Why the Family?
3. A. Challenge Number One: The Single Person
   B. The Threat of the Single Jew
   C. Woman Stands Alone: The Situation of the Single Woman
4. A. Challenge Number Two: Widows and Widowers
   B. Marrying the Brother-in-Law: A Strange Obligation
   C. Socially Speaking…
5. A. Challenge Number Three: The Divorced
   B. The Rabbis Act: Protecting the Woman
   C. The Agunah – The Woman Unable to Remarry
   D. Getting a Get – A Precise Procedure
   E. The Contemporary Crisis – Increasing Divorce
6. A. Challenge Number Four: The Intermarried
   B. Intermarriage in the Monotheistic World
   C. The Modern Intermarriage or Outmarriage Question
7. A. Challenge Number Five: Gay Jews
   B. Gay and Jewish? The Contemporary Situation
8. Summing up the Situation: The View From Now

B: Primary Texts

9. The Basis of Marriage
10. Single Temptations
11. The Misfortune of Widows
12. Marrying the Brother-in-Law
13. Divorce
14. Protecting the Women
15. The Text of the Get
16. Intermarriage
17. Gay Jews

C: Educational Activities

18. Notes to the Educator
19. Thinking Jewish Families
20. Single-Minded
21. Merry Widows
22. Difficult Divorces and Agonised Agunot
23. Marrying In and Out – Part One
24. Marrying In and Out – Part Two
25. On Gay Jews
26. Evaluating the Equation

D: Bibliography