Modeling Modernity: Revisiting the Rabbi Soloveitchik Paradigm
Chaim Trachtman contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.
The Modern Orthodox Vote and the Episcopalian Turn
Why do Orthodox Jews vote the way they do? Zev Eleff builds a case, using some unconventional data.
Decentralization and Centralization: A COVID Tale of the Modern Orthodox Community
As the Covid-19 pandemic looks like it might be subsiding, Ezra Schwartz, a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, incisively examines competing trends toward decentralization of synagogue life and centralization of halakhic decision-making that are reshaping the Modern Orthodox world.
American Football: A Case Study in the Limits of Halakhah and the Claim of...
Jeffrey Fox examines whether watching football is problematic from a Torah point of view.
On Racism and the Torah
Is the Mishnah racist? To answer the question, begs Elli Fischer, is to get a better understanding of both Judaism and Race
The Vital Principles of Judaism in Our beloved Country: An Early Twentieth Century...
Lehrhaus is proud to present Rabbi Henry Schneeberger's 1911 sermon in honor of Thanksgiving.
Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are
Rivka Press Schwartz contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.
How Can the Modern Orthodox Community Fulfill the Rav’s Vision for Women’s Talmud Study?
Rivka Kahan weighs in on the impact of the Rav's 1977 Stern College Talmud
lecture and how the Modern Orthodox community can move forward.
The Rabbi-Kid Dilemma: Another Angle
Zev Eleff responds to Elli Fischer's provocative commentary from yesterday, offering another side on the issue of rabbis' (and everyone else's) children.
Torah u-Madda’s Moment
Stu Halpern weighs in on the eternal wisdom Torah u-Madda offers the world during the fraught times in which we live.
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