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.
Shabbat Morning Youth Groups: Implementing Rav Moshe Feinstein’s Inclusion Imperative
Zevi Fischer offers suggestions on how to implement Rabbi Moshe Feinstein's inclusion imperative.
Rabbi Warns Jews on Education: Advises Blend of Secular Study
In December 1932, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik had just arrived in Boston and outlined his vision for Orthodox Jewish education in the United States.
Yeshivish Women Clergy: The Secular State and Changing Roles for Women in Ultra-Orthodoxy
Laura Shaw Frank contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.
A Game by Any Other Name
Todd Berman warns of antisemitism in strange places.
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...
Big-Tent Orthodoxy and the Return of the NOOJ
Elli Fischer argues that news of the non-observant Orthodox Jews' demise has been premature.
Rupture and Revelation
Ayelet Wenger weaves together the personal, historical and exegetical in advance of reading Sefer Shemot.
Are Modern Orthodox Jews More Comfortable with Mysticism or Anthropomorphism?
This siddur, Yaakov Jaffe argues, is where to look to find out what Orthodox Jews believe.
On Gizzards and the Making of Rabbis
Ezra Schwartz uses artificial intelligence and a famous story about gizzards as a prism to discuss the role of the rabbi in the modern age.
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