Commentary

What motivated the first Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rav Herzog, to work tirelessly on the seemingly quixotic project of running the modern State of Israel on the basis of Halakhah? Reviewing Alexandar Kaye's new book on the subject, Rabbi Shalom Carmy explains.

Zev Eleff on an endangered species, the so-called Non-Observant Orthodox Jew.

Sharon Galper-Grossman and Shamai Grossman discuss the obligation for minors to get vaccinated.

Yosef Lindell Introduction and History of the RCA Siddur If anyone had asked me a year ago whether the Modern Orthodox community in the United States...

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.

Sarah Zager puts #MeToo in conversation with the Talmudic discussion of the death penalty.

Zev Eleff tells the story of "Orthodox women's issues" in the 1980s and its impact on today's religious scene.

Steven Gotlib reviews Roberta Rosenthal Kwall’s book Remix Judaism, which has an important message about navigating Jewish practice in the modern world for non-Orthodox and Orthodox Jews alike.

Sharona Margolin Halickman responds to Chaim Saiman on women's leadership.

Alan Jotkowitz looks at the current situation in Israel through the lens of modern interpretations of the Akeidah.