Commentary

Alex Fleksher explores the intersection between Hamilton and the ba'al teshuvah experience. 

Authors mis-citing citations on authors citing authors. What gives? Yiddish.

Tzvi Sinensky contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.

The biblical figure of Esther is often interpreted by traditional and modern commentators as a heroine of active leadership. Naama Sadan offers a novel perspective, according to which Esther confronts national crisis in female-coded ways, triumphing and saving her people through internally-focused activism.

David Berger's eulogy for Revel's late Prof. Arthur Hyman, a leading scholar of Medieval Jewish philosophy.

No two Orthodox rabbis think exactly the same way, particularly on the matter of Darwinism in the wake of the Scopes Trial. 

Shlomo Riskin remembers how Yeshiva University's late Professor Louis Feldman helped him make the greatest decision of his life.

Hillel Broder reviews the latest release from Jeremiah Lockwood.

Jonathan Muskat responds to Jonathan Sarna regarding a proposed change in the text of the Orthodox Jewish prayer for the government.

Dr. Tovah Lichtenstein responds to the details of the previously published Rav timeline.