Danger for the community and distress for the individual ensue from today’s tension in relationships between men and women. In America more than one third of Jewish women and one half of Jewish men between the ages of 25 and 34 are not married. In Gender Relationships: In Marriage and Out scholars consider this phenomenon from many vantage points: Rav Aharon Lichtenstein discusses the purpose of marriage; Prof. Adiel Schremer studies the Talmudic approach to marriage; Prof. Shaul Stampfer reports on male/female roles in 19th and early 20th century eastern Europe. A sociologist and a rabbi suggest how unmarried adults should be integrated in the Orthodox community, while a psychologist and two singles present vignettes of the struggles Orthodox Jewish singles face. Instructors in the laws of Jewish marriage show what they have learned from teaching, and a rabbi who answers questions in Jewish law that are posed on the Internet reports on the upheaval that this new way of asking generates. A curriculum for “Life Values and Intimacy Education” for day school students from 6th through 12th grades offers a way to better prepare our youngsters for adulthood.

. The editor, Dr. Rivkah Blau, is the author of Learn Torah, Love Torah, Live Torah: Harav Mordechai PinchasTeitz, the Quintessential Rabbi, and the principal of Shalhevet, a new high school for young women in Cedarhurst, New York.