Reviews

Yakov Ellenbogen reviews Susan Weingarten's Haroset: A Taste of Jewish History.

Steven Bayme reviews Joseph Kaplan’s diverse collection of essays on the history and future directions of Modern Orthodoxy in America.

Esther Lindell reviews “The Haggadah about Nothing,” Rabbi Sam Reinstein’s not-too-serious exploration of how the Haggadah relates to Seinfeld, the ever-popular 90s sitcom.

Yaakov Taubes review Vol. 2 of Artscroll’s Kisvei HaRambam.

Judah Kerbel Reviews Deborah E. Lipstadt's Antisemitism: Here and Now.

Menachem Kellner reviews Judaism’s Challenge: Election, Divine Love, and Human Enmity.

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

In his review of Jessica Roda's For Women and Girls Only: Reshaping Jewish Orthodoxy through the Arts in the Digital Age, Ben Rothke considers the ways Orthodox women have dealt with halachic obstacles a claim a space for themselves as performers using new and social media.

Marina Zilbergerts presents the philosophical questions posed by Chaim Grade's “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner,” and compares his arguments to those of other major thinkers such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche.

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