The Challenge and Joy of Living With Tension
Shayna Goldberg contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.
Bringing Back Torah u-Madda
Yaakov Bieler details several reasons why Torah u-Madda remains important to our role as Torah Jews and some practical ways we can implement this approach.
What role should young children play in the post-COVID synagogue?
Yaakov Jaffe argues that kids would be better served by coming to shul for the beginning of the Shabbat davening rather than the end.
The Function of the Centrist Orthodox Gadol
Lawrence Kaplan
I read Chaim Saiman’s essay, “The Market for Gedolim: A Tale of Supply and Demand,” with growing excitement and admiration. Saiman’s shift of...
Pesah and Shavuot, Or: Emancipation and Freedom
Jerome Marcus explores understandings of freedom within halakhah and how they relate to Pesah and Shavuot
Looking for Gedolim in All the Wrong Places?
Ethan Tucker
I am grateful to the editors of Lehrhaus for inviting me into this discussion and to my friend and colleague, Chaim Saiman, for...
Talking To and About God
Ari Lamm on the Bat Kol in rabbinic literature and its implications for Orthodox discourse
(IN)VISIBILITY: Is it good for Jews to be invisible?
As Juneteenth sparks another round of discussion of blacks and the American experience, Chaim Trachtman compares and contrasts the Jewish and Black experiences in America through the lens of Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book.
Bury Me in the Kingdom of My Grandparents
In this essay, Alter Yisrael Shimon Feuerman reflects on his family history and Hasidic pedigree.
“Endless Light” and Boundless Soul
A review of Yehoshua November’s The Concealment of Endless Light.
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