Celebrating Women’s Talmud and Acknowledging its Opponents
How Can the Modern Orthodox Community Fulfill the Rav’s Vision for Women’s Talmud Study?
Resurrecting Moses Mendelssohn
Forty Years Later: The Rav’s Opening Shiur at the Stern College for Women Beit...
Kohelet as Intertext
Theodicy, faith, and the meaning of life. Who got it right - Kohelet or our Yamim Noraim liturgy? Elana Stein Hain explores!
How Zionism Saved the Etrog in America
Zev Eleff explains what Zionism has to do with Sukkot, at least in America.
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.
Are Modern Orthodox Jews More Comfortable with Mysticism or Anthropomorphism?
A Jewish Story of Two Hurricanes
Rabbi Adam Starr reflects on his community's hurricane relief efforts, and what it taught him about Jewish unity.
A Religion Without Visual Art? The Rav and the Myth of Jewish Art
If Kant or Hegel had read Rambam or the Shulhan Arukh, they might have known that Jewish law does not actually proscribe the creation of images. But that was not the way of history. It is important to reclaim visual culture and aesthetics for religious Judaism so that beauty can be allowed to inspire halakhically bound actions, to color worship, and give meaning to our rituals.
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