Commentary

The father heard the voice of God, Elli Fischer explains, but the son ends up with the blade on his neck.

With lively and accessible prose, Tamar Ross clarifies her theology of the revelation at Sinai in contrast to more traditional formulations such as Yoram Hazony's.

Tamar Ron Marvin reviews a new translation of the Sefer Ha-Pardes

Zach Truboff argues that Purim reminds us of our vulnerability even with the State of Israel.

After Professor Yaakov Blidstein's passing on Thursday, Marc Herman recalls his teacher's astonishing blend of scholarly creativity and intellectual humility.

Jeffrey Fox contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.

Fix the Israeli Rabbinate, says Elli Fischer, but first identify the problem.

Thanks in part to several new publications, portions of the Orthodox world have been engaging with modern biblical scholarship in a more significant way than ever before. Gil Perl provides a four-step framework for how Jewish days schools might profitably teach many aspects of biblical criticism that do not conflict with our mesorah.

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,...

Alan Kadish offers a vision for how Orthodox Jews should think about "chosenness."