Commentary

Politics from the Pulpit Redux: Don Seeman builds on Jason Herman.

Chaim Twerski contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.

Zev Eleff offers a rejoinder and some reflections on "What if Rav Aharon Had Stayed?"

Two letters to the editor provide alternative perspectives on the question of what Jewish law wants American abortion law to be.

Yehuda Fogel comments on the nature of controversy and dispute through the eyes of R. Nahman of Bratslav

Historian Jonathan Sarna places a recent decision by an Orthodox synagogue to modify the "prayer for the government" into sharp historical focus.

Shlomo Zuckier explores competing theological trends underlying rabbinic guidance at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic.

A growing list of dati le’umi leaders and thinkers frame war as a desirable state and even an opportunity for spiritual elevation. Religious Israeli activist Ariel Shwartz traces this trend with alarm and argues that it contradicts deep-rooted Torah values. Translated by Mordechai Blau.

As this election season draws to a close at last, Zev Eleff crunches the numbers on the Modern Orthodox vote—a demographic whose politics are not so easy to pin down.

Yakov Ellenbogen reviews Susan Weingarten's Haroset: A Taste of Jewish History.