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.
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.
An Old Jew and His Grandchildren
In the 1950s, Eliezer Berkovits reflects on Judaism, tradition and how generations connect with one another.
Modeling Modernity: Revisiting the Rabbi Soloveitchik Paradigm
Chaim Trachtman 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.
Our Backs Will Touch: Similarities between Hasidim and German Jewish Hirschians
Yisrael Kashkin explores similarities between Yekkes and Hasidim.
Shared Leadership: A Response to Ezra Schwartz and Nathaniel Helfgot
In response to recent articles by Ezra Schwartz and Nathaniel Helfgot on the issue of centralization, Jeffrey Fox offers a vision of collaborative, personalized pesak in the post-Covid era.
The Making of a President for Yeshiva University
In a never-before-published memoir, Rabbi Joseph H. Lookstein recalls the politics that surrounded Yeshiva University upon the death of President Bernard Revel and the search for his successor.
The “Between-the-Lines” Faith of Rabbi Hershel Schachter
Zev Eleff takes us through the theology of one of American Orthodoxy much-discussed but less-analyzed rabbinic leaders, at least from this point of view.
Facts are Like Fish: A Response to The Arrival of Rabbi Soloveitchik in America:...
Dr. Tovah Lichtenstein responds to the details of the previously published Rav timeline.
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