Commentary

Zev Eleff on a perennially interesting portion of the liturgy.

Gabi Weinberg assesses the utility of a new monograph on Jewish leadership.

Moshe Kurtz explores the different meanings of silence in Halakhah in light of recent political events

Ari Lamm on the Bat Kol in rabbinic literature and its implications for Orthodox discourse

How successful is the new book, Reclaiming Dignity: A Guide to Tzniut for Men and Women, at setting forth a new Torah-based vision for modesty? Laurie Novick offers a careful review, carefully considering both the personal essays and halakhic/hashkafic analyses set forward in this important work.

Menachem Butler responds to Michael Bernstein's article about the propriety of placing flags in shul sanctuaries.

Those of us who feel deeply connected and indebted to Hasidism should ask ourselves a difficult and perhaps painful question: Is Netivot Shalom the sefer that we want to represent us to the rest of Am Yisrael?

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

Yaakov Jaffe analyzes and compares the "Song of the Sea" and the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

Howard Apfel reviews Sacred Training: A Halakhic Guidebook for Medical Students and Residents.