Rethinking the Jewish Womb in Israel.

IF 1.2 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2025.2535996

Elly Teman, Orit Chorowicz Bar-Am

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Abstract

This article revisits questions about the womb's role in conferring Jewish identity in Israel. Judaism is transmitted matrilineally, yet orthodox rabbis increasingly view babies from non-Jewish eggs as requiring conversion. Through interviews with 25 orthodox Jewish-Israeli gestational surrogates who see surrogacy as an act of "loving-kindness" (chesed), we explore how they navigate halakhic uncertainty surrounding the Jewish status of babies they carry when non-Jewish donor eggs are used. Though the State recognizes their "Jewish womb" as determining the baby's religious status, these surrogates resist acknowledging this power because they conceptualize themselves as merely "hosting" a child that belongs to others.

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重新思考以色列的犹太人子宫。

这篇文章重新探讨了子宫在赋予以色列犹太人身份的过程中所扮演的角色。犹太教是母系传宗接代的，然而正统的拉比们越来越多地认为非犹太卵子的婴儿需要皈依犹太教。我们采访了25位正统的犹太-以色列代孕母亲，她们将代孕视为一种“慈爱”（chesed）的行为。通过采访，我们探讨了当使用非犹太捐赠的卵子时，她们是如何应对围绕她们所怀婴儿的犹太身份的不确定性的。虽然国家承认她们的“犹太子宫”决定了婴儿的宗教地位，但这些代孕母亲拒绝承认这种权力，因为她们将自己的概念定义为仅仅是“接待”一个属于别人的孩子。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

CiteScore

4.10

自引率

4.30%

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期刊介绍： Medical Anthropology provides a global forum for scholarly articles on the social patterns of ill-health and disease transmission, and experiences of and knowledge about health, illness and wellbeing. These include the nature, organization and movement of peoples, technologies and treatments, and how inequalities pattern access to these. Articles published in the journal showcase the theoretical sophistication, methodological soundness and ethnographic richness of contemporary medical anthropology. Through the publication of empirical articles and editorials, we encourage our authors and readers to engage critically with the key debates of our time. Medical Anthropology invites manuscripts on a wide range of topics, reflecting the diversity and the expanding interests and concerns of researchers in the field.