Abstract
One of the most compelling Jewish voices speaking to the great moral challenges of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is Rabbi Irving Greenberg—“Yitz” Greenberg as he is almost universally known. Rabbi Greenberg’s thoughts on issues such as theology, war and peace, and Orthodox responsibilities to human history have influenced every stream of Judaism, as well as secular Jews and non-Jews. Less well-known to many, Yitz Greenberg’s prescient views on sexuality played an important role that is sometimes overlooked today. Half a century ago, in the 1960s, concepts of gender role construction and attitudes toward sexual values and behaviors underwent
