The Modern Orthodox Women’s Agenda, the Eighties, and Bottom-Up Opposition
Zev Eleff tells the story of "Orthodox women's issues" in the 1980s and its impact on today's religious scene.
The Market For Halakhic Authority: Some Reflections on Gadolnomics
Aryeh Klapper
It is my great pleasure to respond to Prof. Chaim Saiman’s characteristically erudite, well-reasoned, and provocative essay about Liberal Orthodoxy and “gedolim.” I agree entirely...
The Balabatish Daf Yomi Revolution
How did daf yomi evolve from a yeshiva-centered program to one focused on the working Jew? Zev Eleff offers a historical overview of the daf yomi revolution.
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.
Building Upon the Rav’s Legacy in Women’s Learning
Ezra Schwartz
The recently published account of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s inaugural shiur at Stern College has rightfully generated much conversation about women and Gemara study. In light of this appropriate benchmark of forty years,...
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...
A Principled Pesak and a Window into Pesak
Shmuel Winiarz contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.
A Spirited Quest
Giti Bendheim reflects on her journey within the world of Orthodox women's learning and philanthropy.
Retiring My Modern Orthodox DeLorean
Zev Eleff offers a rejoinder and some reflections on "What if Rav Aharon Had Stayed?"
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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