Dr. Ruth & Jonathan Mark

Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer teaches at Columbia's Teachers College. She is an Associate Fellow of Calhoun College at Yale University and Fellow of Butler College at Princeton University. Her essay draws on insights in her book Heavenly Sex: Sexuality in the Jewish Tradition with Jonathan Mark (NYU Press, 1995; paperback, Continuum 1996). She is a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and in addition to having her own private practice.