Commentary

Recent years have seen dramatic changes in the packaging of Taharat ha-Mishpahah education on Instagram, from video reels to influencers to new, diverse online communities. Lindsey Bodner offers an astute, well-researched review of this new paradigm shift in Taharat ha-Mishpahah education today.

Michael (Avi) Helfand on a recent court case with implications for American Jews as members of both a religious and a minority community.

Leslie Ginsparg Klein examines a new case of Orthodox censorship, contextualizing it within recent trends and religious culture.

In this thought-provoking piece, Aharon Frazer traces the approach to power and privilege in the Torah from Genesis through Deuteronomy, and offers a framework for the ethical use of power in our own times.

Shlomo Spivack discusses the anti-spirituality of his teacher, Rav Menachem Froman.

In response to recent articles by Ezra Schwartz and Nathaniel Helfgot on the issue of centralization, Jeffrey Fox offers a vision of collaborative, personalized pesak in the post-Covid era.

Chaim Trachtman squares biology with Spinoza and Maimonides.

Zev Eleff and Ari Lamm cap off the Lehrhaus Symposium on the OU statement.

David Bashevkin articulates a religious educator’s perspective on why people become religious

Ari Lamm explores a recent instance of talmudic censorship, as well as its implications for thinking about Jewish-Christian relations and American society at large.