How Should a Diverse Urban Congregation Select a Siddur?
David Wolkenfeld ponders his synagogue's next choice in siddur.
Peer Press-ure: Cultural and Market Forces and the Orthodox Press
Yoel Finkelman explains why the Orthodox still have good use for newspapers, while many other groups don't.
There Are Jews Everywhere: Divine Revelation through the Other in Malamud’s “Angel Levine”
Eileen Watts puts the writings of Bernard Malamud in conversation with today's immigrant debate.
A Game by Any Other Name
Todd Berman warns of antisemitism in strange places.
The Earth-Shattering Faith of Rav Shagar
Zach Truboff on Rav Shagar, Israeli Post-Modernism and American Modern Orthodox Judaism.
Exhuming the Rav from his Procrustean Sarcophagus: The “Mesorah Speech” Reconsidered
Moshe Simon-Shoshan sheds new light on the Rav's approach to pluralism and academic Jewish studies.
A Year in Review – 2021
As 2021 comes to a close, the Lehrhaus team is delighted to highlight many of the thought-provoking essays we’ve published this year, with a diverse array of incredible thinkers and writers.
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.
How Mendelssohn’s Torah and Philosophy Converge: A Study of “Anokhi”
How do Moses Mendelssohn and Revelation jibe? Judah Kerbel offers some perspective.
Wise Trader or Deceitful Traitor? Eshet Hayil Reconsidered
Eliav Grossman contextualizes the femininity emerging from some of Proverbs' best known passages
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