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.
Resurrecting Moses Mendelssohn
Tzvi Sinensky
As chronicled in Robert Putnam’s 2000 classic book, Bowling Alone, loneliness is one of the vexing challenges of modern life. The advent of the...
Philanthropy Works; We Just Need More of It
Jay Kelman responds to Hillel David Rapp.
Celebrating Women’s Talmud and Acknowledging its Opponents
Rabbi Leonard Matanky reflects on Rabbi Saul Berman's account of the Rav's
1977 Stern College Talmud shiur and Orthodox Judaism's & slippery slope
complex.
Philanthropy is Great, It’s Where You Give That Matters
Hillel David Rap responds to Jordan Soffer and Jay Kelman.
Schools Need Leadership, Too: The OU and Day School Education
Sara Wolkenfeld contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.
Why Are There Empty Chairs in the Beit Midrash?: Updating the Communal Agenda
Tova Warburg Sinensky
“We are commanded to love God, exalted be He, to meditate upon and closely examine His mitzvot, His commandments, and His works,...
Yeshiva University President Rabbi Ari Berman’s Opening Shiur
YU President Ari Berman's opening address, comparing YU to a Sukkah! Shlomo Zuckier captures this historic moment in his notes.
Killing Off the Rav (So He May Live)
William Kolbrener calls for an end to Rav-polemicizing so that all interested parties might finally take his legacy and teachings at full-depth.
JLIC: The OU Program That Introduced a New Vision of Orthodox Women’s Leadership
Todd Berman contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.
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