The Lehrhaus

Suri Kinzbrunner considers the narrative of Tamar and Amnon through the lens of trauma and destruction, and juxtaposes love and lust in Jewish text.

Last year, Rabbis Ethan Tucker and Micha'el Rosenberg released an updated edition of their influential 2017 work, Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law. In this review, Steven Gotlib outlines the book's core halakhic arguments and assesses its reception by contemporary Jewish thinkers. He concludes with a consideration of the relationship between halakhic egalitarian practice and mainstream Orthodox Judaism, including potential paths that this relationship may take in the future.

Antisemitic thought has taken on various forms in different cultural contexts across history. Avraham Russell Shalev proposes that a common ideological thread links multiple of these forms--among them Christian replacement theology, the Islamic concept of tahrif, and the Khazar hypothesis. The Jewish people's renewed commitment to its covenant with God, as exemplified by the establishment of the State of Israel, serves as a powerful counterpoint to these ideologies of supersessionis.