By Carly Stern For Dailymail. The New York Post reports that boudoir shoots - a trend that sees women taking sexy, revealing photos, often in nighties and lingerie - are becoming increasingly popular among Orthodox Jews, with even some bubbes - or grandmothers - taking part. Lea, 30, a New York City-based photographer who is also an Orthodox Jew, said that these types of shoots done for members of Flatbush, Brooklyn's Hasidic community now make up about 35 per cent of her business. Makin' them schvitz: Lea not pictured is an Orthodox Jewish photographer from New York who said that boudoir shoots among the Hasidic community now make up about 35 per cent of her business.

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Rabbi Dr Bradley Shavit Artson www. He wrote a book on Jewish teachings on war, peace and nuclear annihilation in the late 80s, became a leading voice advocating for GLBT marriage and ordination in the 90s, and has published and spoken widely on environmental ethics, special needs inclusion, racial and economic justice, cultural and religious dialogue and cooperation, and working for a just and secure peace for Israel and the Middle East. He is particularly interested in theology, ethics, and the integration of science and religion. A frequent contributor for the Huffington Post and for the Times of Israel, and a public figure Facebook page with over 60, likes, he is the author of 12 books and over articles, most recently Renewing the Process of Creation: A Jewish Integration of Science and Spirit.

On Tuesday, Playboy announced that starting in March its magazine will no longer feature nude models. But for the publication that changed the way sexuality was viewed in America, it is certainly the end of an era. The magazine, founded by Hugh Hefner in , has seen its circulation drop from around 5. But this is impossible to fully confirm since Playboy never tracked the religion of its models. Bernard said she was not quite 18 years old when she posed naked in front of a Christmas tree in something she talked about in an interview 30 years later.