Content by Rebecca Epstein-Levy, PhD

Rebecca J. Epstein-Levy is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is an ethicist who studies sex, sexuality, and disability in rabbinic texts, and  the author of When We Collide: Sex, Social Risk, and Jewish Ethics. Rebecca has also taught at Washington University in St. Louis and Oberlin College. Her PhD in the study of Judaism is from the University of Virginia, where her dissertation was entitled “Safe, Sane, and Attentive: Toward a Jewish Ethic of Sex and Public Health.” Her prolific publications range over topics such as intertextually modified organisms, genetic engineering, Jewish ethics, and rabbinic text and “Community, Authority and Autonomy: Jewish Resources for the Vaccine Wars.”