Gender Issues and Jewish Law will cover Constructions of Sexes, Genders, and Sexualities in Rabbinic Literature. We shall deal with legal and biological definitions of sex and intersex in classical Jewish writings from Bible through rabbinic literature, legal codes, and modern Jewish approaches, including biomedical ethics on sex assignment. We shall examine texts dealing with the legal definitions of sex acts and their legal repercussions. Constructions of the very different male and female genders and rabbinic attempts to categorize the gender of an intersex will be studied. We shall examine various sexual acts: heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transsexual, intergenerational, and solitary sex in an attempt to discern the relationship of classical Jewish texts to them. Did these relationships constitute constructions of sexualities? The impact of cross-cultural influences on Jewish approaches to sex, gender, and sexuality will also be addressed.