A Year in Review – 2022
As 2022 comes to a close, the Lehrhaus team is proud to feature some highlights from our contributions this past year. Yet again, we have published at least one hundred original pieces across a wide variety of genres.
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 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.
Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are
Rivka Press Schwartz contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.
Lay-Rabbinic Relations: The Present Moment and the Path Ahead
Tzvi Sinensky contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.
Rabbi Lamm, Sukkot, and the Spiritual Perils of Materialism
Can we solve the growing problem of materialism in the Orthodox community? Tzvi Sinensky explains how Rabbi Norman Lamm’s Sukkot sermons shine some light on the matter
One Life to Live: Torah u-Madda Today
Sarah Rindner contemplates whether Torah u-Madda as it’s sometimes interpreted can engender unreflective allegiance to trends in contemporary society that might harm our religious communities.
What if Rav Aharon had Stayed? A Counter-History of Postwar Orthodox Judaism in the...
In his first and last foray in this field, Zev Eleff tries his hand at some Modern Orthodox counter-history.
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.
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...
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