Culture

Shayna Goldberg contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.

Jennifer Caplan reviews Esther in America, a timely volume featuring essays by a number of Lehrhaus editors that addresses how the characters and themes of Megillat Esther have been integrated into American thought and culture over time.

Harris Bor meditates on the world of Passover in his new poem for the Lehrhaus.

Read Tikva Hecht's powerful poem to enter the world of Elul.

The Yom Kippur War was a defining moment in the life of poet Leonard Cohen, a moment when his entire spiritual destiny hung in the balance. Bezalel Naor on Cohen's priestly imagination.

Enter the Baltic Coast in the late 1980's, in George Kuchinsky's reflection on a childhood encounter with anti-semitism.

This is Not a Poem and other soon-to-be-published high holiday poems by Yehiel Poupko.

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

Akiva Shapiro depicts the experience of outdoor prayers during the pandemic.

Aryeh Klapper with some new translation-stylings of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's Halakhic Man.