Character And Covenant
Ben Frogel reviews a new volume that introduces thirty-five different Jewish approaches to virtue ethics and attempts to link them into one continuous tradition.
Rav Aharon Lichtenstein’s Enduring Values
Alan Jotkowitz reviews Rav Lichtenstein’s Values in Halakha.
Alexander Hamilton: The “Jewish” Founding Father
What was Alexander Hamilton's relationship to Judaism? In his review of a new book about Hamilton's Jewish world, Lehrhaus editor Yisroel Ben-Porat explores the arguments to be made for a "Jewish" founding father.
Yes, We Needed Another Modern Orthodox Prayer Book: A Review of the RCA Siddur
Yosef Lindell
Introduction and History of the RCA Siddur
If anyone had asked me a year ago whether the Modern Orthodox community in the United States...
Hamilton and the Orthodox Underdog
Alex Fleksher explores the intersection between Hamilton and the ba'al teshuvah experience.
Tablets Shattered (And Restored?): Jewish Identity Here and Now
Joshua Leifer’s new book illustrates the collapse of several paradigms that long sustained American Jewish life. In his review, Steven Gotlib notes that Leifer’s search for a viable, non-separatist, traditional Judaism overlooks several existing models of Jewish life and practice.
Traditional Revolutionaries
Ilan Fuchs reviews Naomi Seidman’s book Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement.
Judaism and Christianity: A Star-Crossed Affair?
Steven Gotlib reviews Eugene Korn’s book on the future of Jewish-Christian relations.
Philosophy and Exegesis: Which Leads? A Review of Aaron Koller’s Unbinding Isaac
Zvi Grumet reviews Aaron Koller’s new book on the Akedah and evaluates his surprisingly novel approach to this formative biblical story.
Ought Judaism Be Tinkered With?
Steven Gotlib review Miri Freud-Kandel’s new book on the relevance of Louis Jacobs to contemporary Orthodox theology.
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