The Soul of Man Under Postmodernism: Further comments on Rav Shagar’s contribution
Shalom Carmy
The last couple of weeks have brought two worthwhile assessments of Rav Shagar’s Faith Shattered and Restored: Judaism in the Postmodern Age, Matt Lubin’s...
Loyal As A Dog: How to Read “Jewish Art”
Marc Michael Epstein explores the nature of animal motifs in medieval Jewish manuscripts.
The Tension that is Tanakh
Yaakov Beasley looks at Hayyim Angel's scholarship and evaluates it as an exemplar of Modern Orthodox Bible study.
The Day I Met Shimon Peres
Leslie Ginsparg Klein's reflections on Shimon Peres, Zionism, and the importance of nuance.
Poems for a World Built, Destroyed, and Rebuilt
Six new poems by Elhanan Nir—published here with English translation and annotation—capture the grief and discontinuity of this moment.
The Shepherd’s Veil
This short story by Benjamin Guggenheim reimagines Moses after the sin of the Golden Calf: powerful yet powerless, dutiful yet embittered, so close to God yet so distant from His people.
Shadal, García Márquez, and the Stain of Honor
Daniel Klein on how violence in the Bible plays out in the writings of Shadal and Gabriel Gárcia Márquez
Hokhmat Nashim
Ayelet Wenger on women and Torah and Talmud and some things (that get) in between.
Modern Orthodox Jews Should Be Trailblazers in Holocaust Education
As we commemorate Yom HaShoah, Shay Pilnik urges us to add a Modern Orthodox voice to a discourse increasingly dominated by secular perspectives.
From Har Ke-gigit to Kiyemu Ve-kibelu: a Journey of Homo Religiosus
In a moving personal essay, Joshua Stadlan explores a famous Purim midrash with the commentary of Rav Soloveitchik to reflect on his life, religious journey, and relationship with God.
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