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.
Not Your Parents’ “Nonobservance:” A Rejoinder
Zev Eleff offers a rejoinder to his critics regarding the Non-Observant Orthodox Jew.
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.
The Realities of Religious Accommodation in the Workplace: A Recent Case and a Cause...
Michael (Avi) Helfand offers an analysis of the legal battle between Susan Abeles’s and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA).
The OU Paper: Three Lenses
Elli Fischer contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.
The Grand Conversation: Bringing Jewish Ideas to the Literature Classroom
In this essay, Edelman and Steinberg argue for a literature curriculum that integrates Jewish thought.
Wanted: Precision, Nuance, and Avodat Hashem
Jeffrey Woolf contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.
Torah u-Madda or Torah u-Movies?
Moshe Kurtz regales us with his love of science fiction & fantasy, suggesting that the genre’s literature, movies, and games can teach Torah lessons in ethics and morality, but cautioning that Torah u-Madda ought not to become Torah u-Movies.
The Baptized Jew Who Had a Lot to Teach Us about Orthodox Judaism
Peter Berger, Daniel Korobkin argues, offers an important lens to understand Orthodox Judaism, its religious features and institutions.
Forty Years Later: The Rav’s Opening Shiur at the Stern College for Women Beit...
Forty years ago, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik changed women's Torah education forever. Rabbi Saul Berman tells us how that happened.
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