Wise Trader or Deceitful Traitor? Eshet Hayil Reconsidered
Eliav Grossman contextualizes the femininity emerging from some of Proverbs' best known passages
The Troubling Trend of Photoshopping History
Leslie Ginsparg Klein examines a new case of Orthodox censorship, contextualizing it within recent trends and religious culture.
Abraham and the 1960s – Technocracy and the Journey Inward
Sam Glauber examines Abraham's place in his society.
No Ideas But In Things: A Review of “Jerusalem” at the Metropolitan Museum of...
Sarah Rindner with a review of the Met's latest exhibit, "Jerusalem."
In God’s Country: The “Zionism” of Rashi’s First Comment
Elli Fischer reads one of Rashi's most famous comments against the grain.
Jung Earth Creationism: Two New York Rabbis Respond to the Scopes Trial
No two Orthodox rabbis think exactly the same way, particularly on the matter of Darwinism in the wake of the Scopes Trial.
Ron Santo and the Jews
A historical document on the Jewish love for the Cubs all-time great third baseman.
Can a Court Really Ban Kapparot and Why it Matters for the American Jewish...
Michael (Avi) Helfand on a recent court case with implications for American Jews as members of both a religious and a minority community.
Looking for Gedolim in All the Wrong Places?
Ethan Tucker
I am grateful to the editors of Lehrhaus for inviting me into this discussion and to my friend and colleague, Chaim Saiman, for...
Not in the Market for a Gadol
Wendy Amsellem
While I greatly enjoyed reading Chaim Saiman’s thoughtful essay, “The Market for Gedolim: A Tale of Supply and Demand,” nothing about it made...
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