Talking To and About God
Ari Lamm on the Bat Kol in rabbinic literature and its implications for Orthodox discourse
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.
Serpentine Psychology and Booming Babel
Shalom Carmy argues why Torah u-Madda is more relevant now than it ever was.
Rabbi Norman Lamm’s Theology of Anti-Racism
Shmuel Lamm examines Rabbi Norman Lamm's sermons for insights on a crucial issue.
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.
Malbim’s Paean to (Ben Azzai’s) Kantian Ethics
Francis Nataf explores Malbim’s sophisticated engagement with Kantian ethics.
Sarah Schenirer and Innovative Change: The Myths and Facts
Did elite rabbinic figures jumpstart Bais Yaakov, or was it a grassroots women's movement? Leslie Ginsparg Klein explains.
Mirvis’s Complaint
Risa Miller
The latest addition to the burgeoning subgenre of ‘off-the-derekh’ memoirs is Tova Mirvis’s The Book of Separation. Mirvis’s three published novels, which oftentimes...
Jung Earth Creationism: Two New York Rabbis Respond to the Scopes Trial
No two Orthodox rabbis think exactly the same way, particularly on the matter of Darwinism in the wake of the Scopes Trial.
Rack Up Those Mitzvot!
When we boil matters down to their essence, what is the underlying difference between a yeshivish and centrist Orthodox worldview? Tzvi Goldstein argues that it’s not Torah Umada, Zionism, or women’s roles; these are all symptomatic of a deeper debate about this world and the World to Come.
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