Hearing the Shepherd from Tekoa

Ethan Schwartz reviews Yitchak Etshalom’s new volume on the prophet Amos, considering ways in which the author succeeds and fails to recreate the divine roar of Amos’ message.

A Halakhic Guide to Dealing with Mental Illness  

Meir Ekstein review Yonatan Rosensweig’s recently translated book on mental Health and Halakhah.

You Asked, Rabbi Ulman Answered

Written in dense rabbinic Hebrew, MiLishkat HaDarom, the responsa of Australian Rabbi Yehoram Ulman, has not yet received the attention it deserves for it nuanced presentation of family case law.

Discourses on Destruction and Rebirth: The Rav on the Shoah, Zionism and the American...

Alan Jotkowitz reviews a newly-published volume of the Rav's writings on Zionism, and unpacks what they can mean for the Jewish State and Diaspora communities today.

A Word Search Adventure

Mollie Fish reviews Mitchell First’s new book, From Eden to Exodus: A Journey into Hebrew Words in Bereshit and Shemot.

Bringing the Bible’s Commentators to Life

Yosef Lindell reviews Avigail Rock's recent book about the classical Biblical commentators.

Is Modern Orthodoxy Ready to Accept Rabbi Yitz Greenberg?

Steven Gotlib reviews the magnum opus of legendary Jewish thinker Yitz Greenberg, considering ways in which Greenberg’s newest synthesis of his ideas bring him back into conversation with the Modern Orthodox community.

“Endless Light” and Boundless Soul

A review of Yehoshua November’s The Concealment of Endless Light.

Letters to the Editor: Raphael Jospe and Zach Truboff

Raphael Jospe and Zach Truboff write regarding recent articles that have driven conversation.

Coherence, Contradiction, and the Philosophy of Chabad

Ariel Evan Mayse reviews Yosef Bronstein’s new book on the philosophy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.