Torah and Technology

Sarah Rudolph responds to Zev Eleff's article on "Digital Democratization".

In honor of yesterday's Daf Yomi Siyum on Masekhet Eiruvin, Yaakov Jaffe describes how online maps and other technological tools have better enabled communities such as Boston/Cambridge to measure their tehum shabbat.

Zev Eleff draws on lessons of nineteenth century print culture to help grapple with the Digital Age.

Shira Hecht-Koller Earlier this year, Apple released the iPhone X. When the first iPhone was released in 2007, I was completing my second year of...

Aaron Segal reviews Staying Human by Harris Bor.

Ari Elias-Bachrach explores the science behind lab-produced meat and cheese and the possibility of a realistic kosher cheeseburger.

Sefaria has recently published a new bilingual digital edition of Talmud Yerushalmi. Taking stock of this development, Zachary Rothblatt offers an erudite synthesis of the history of Yerushalmi.

Yaakov Jaffe explores a common synagogue practice, and why it doesn't seem so halakhic. minyan,

As the Covid-19 pandemic looks like it might be subsiding, Ezra Schwartz, a Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University, incisively examines competing trends toward decentralization of synagogue life and centralization of halakhic decision-making that are reshaping the Modern Orthodox world.

Henry Abramson debates Shaul Magid on the faith of the Aish Kodesh.