Divinity and History in the World of Chabad
Chesky Kopel reviews Eli Rubin’s new book Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism.
Moving Beyond the Scope: Translating Rambam/Maimonides
Yaakov Taubes review Vol. 2 of Artscroll’s Kisvei HaRambam.
Teaching Israel and Jewish History Post-October 7: A Values Proposition
Ethan Zadoff discusses what Israel education should look like post-October 7.
Hearing the Shepherd from Tekoa
Ethan Schwartz reviews Yitchak Etshalom’s new volume on the prophet Amos, considering ways in which the author succeeds and fails to recreate the divine roar of Amos’ message.
A Halakhic Guide to Dealing with Mental Illness
Meir Ekstein review Yonatan Rosensweig’s recently translated book on mental Health and Halakhah.
The Body of Israel
Drawing upon Jewish history and human anatomy, Shmuel Chaim Naiman demonstrates how the Land of Israel serves as a collective body for the collective Jewish soul.
The Shekhinah as a Tool for Political Critique: The Mystico-Political Thought of Rabbi Menachem...
Twelve years after the passing of R. Menachem Froman, his daughter-in-law, the scholar and activist Tchiya Froman, considers R. Froman’s literary critique of the Gush Emunim settlement enterprise and his determination that Judaism requires a feminine revolution.
Leadership Through Retreat: A New Perspective on the Book of Esther
The biblical figure of Esther is often interpreted by traditional and modern commentators as a heroine of active leadership. Naama Sadan offers a novel perspective, according to which Esther confronts national crisis in female-coded ways, triumphing and saving her people through internally-focused activism.
You Asked, Rabbi Ulman Answered
Written in dense rabbinic Hebrew, MiLishkat HaDarom, the responsa of Australian Rabbi Yehoram Ulman, has not yet received the attention it deserves for it nuanced presentation of family case law.
Discourses on Destruction and Rebirth: The Rav on the Shoah, Zionism and the American...
Alan Jotkowitz reviews a newly-published volume of the Rav's writings on Zionism, and unpacks what they can mean for the Jewish State and Diaspora communities today.