Culture

In this whimsical story, David Zvi Kalman takes an information theory perspective in tackling what it might have been like for Moses to receive the Law.

Howard Apfel reviews Sacred Training: A Halakhic Guidebook for Medical Students and Residents.

At what point in Jewish thought does artificial intelligence go too far? In this short story, Olga Lempert writes about a world where humanity itself might be replaced by the machines they create

Twelve years after the passing of R. Menachem Froman, his daughter-in-law, the scholar and activist Tchiya Froman, considers R. Froman’s literary critique of the Gush Emunim settlement enterprise and his determination that Judaism requires a feminine revolution.

Ari Lamm on The Boss and The Bible

In this story, Joe Helmreich transports readers to the harsh deserts of the ancient world where two important men meet.

In his Yiddish poem "Hanukkah" (1932), Avrom Liessen poignantly recalled his early experience of the holiday. Dov Greenwood's vivid translation transports us into that wondrous world.

Ezra Olman's short story debut at Lehrhaus

In response to Gil Perl's Postmodern Orthodoxy, Gidon Rothstein asks for another look at Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein and the limits of pluralism and what we consider "truth."

Natan Oliff analyzes the deep philosophical messages in the music of Israeli singer Hanan Ben Ari.