Can One Delegate Holocaust Metaphors?

A Talmudic poem about Holocaust appropriation.

Korach

A poem on parshat Korach by Zohar Atkins
Pharisees

A Game by Any Other Name

Todd Berman warns of antisemitism in strange places.

Summer Chaplaincy as Modern Priesthood; a Theological Reflection

Eliyahu Freedman compares hospital chaplains to the Kohanim.

Goodbye, Philip: A Hesped

Dr. Ari Hoffman eulogizes Philip Roth.

“Filling In” and “The Poet of Auschwitz”

Two new poems by Temima Weissmann address national calamities, both past and present.

Schrodinger’s Hametz

Leah Cypess imagines the what-ifs of Pesach cleaning.

Retiring My Modern Orthodox DeLorean

Zev Eleff offers a rejoinder and some reflections on "What if Rav Aharon Had Stayed?"

A “What If” Review: Hypothetical History, Science, and Halakhah

Yaakov Taubes examines three hypothetical “What if?” books and what they can teach us about history, science, and halakhah.

There Are No Lights in War: We Need a Different Religious Language

A growing list of dati le’umi leaders and thinkers frame war as a desirable state and even an opportunity for spiritual elevation. Religious Israeli activist Ariel Shwartz traces this trend with alarm and argues that it contradicts deep-rooted Torah values. Translated by Mordechai Blau.