Tradition for Non-Traditional Jews
Steven Gotlib review's Elliot Cosgrove's "For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today," which urges unity among American Jewry.
Six: The Talmudic Histo-Remix
Rabba Wendy Amsellem reviews Gila Fine's new book, "The Madwoman in the Rabbi's Attic."
Book review – The Yemenite Children Affair: Ethnic Tensions, Immigration, and Public Records in...
The Yemenite Children Affair is among the most persistent myths in Israeli society. Ben Rothke reviews a recent book examining the evidence, or lack thereof, for the affair, as well as what its persistence means for community relations in contemporary Israel.
Divinity and History in the World of Chabad
Chesky Kopel reviews Eli Rubin’s new book Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism.
Moving Beyond the Scope: Translating Rambam/Maimonides
Yaakov Taubes review Vol. 2 of Artscroll’s Kisvei HaRambam.
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.
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