Reviews

Yosef Lindell reviews Rabbi Sacks's Humash translation and commentary, and compares it with other translations used in the scope of Modern Orthodoxy.

Sarah Rindner with a review of the Met's latest exhibit, "Jerusalem."

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

In this review, Chesky Kopel juxtaposes three new poetry books which illustrate today's trials and tribulations: Tikvah Hecht's "Tashlikh," Brian Rohr's "Shaken to my Bones: A Poetic Midrash on the Torah," and Eden Pearlstein's "Nothing is for Everyone."

Wendy Zierler interprets a 2015 poem by the late Haim Gouri, reflecting on the challenges of aging, and on the complex and often mournful relationship between the Jewish people, their history, and their literature.

In a continuing series on great, modern Israeli thinkers, Joe Wolfson explores the powerful themes in a novel by Rav Haim Sabato.

Chesky Kopel reviews Eli Rubin’s new book Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity: An Existential History of Chabad Hasidism.

Ben Rothke reviews Harold Gans's new book The Cosmic Puzzle: A Scientific Investigation into the Existence of God, asking the question: Is the proof of God best left to the scientific method?

Steven Gotlib reviews Eugene Korn’s book on the future of Jewish-Christian relations.

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.