Culture

In this essay, Eileen Watts draws parallels between Daniel Deronda and the book of Exodus

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

What can the Talmud teach us about living through a pandemic? Avi Strausberg argues that it teaches us quite a bit about strengthening acts of kindness and solidarity in our communities.

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.

Eliyahu Freedman compares hospital chaplains to the Kohanim.

Benjamin Marcus was commissioned to create illustrations for an illuminated manuscript of the Book of Ruth. In this one-of-a-kind article, he shares his challenges, his discoveries, and his art.

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.

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.

Tehila Wenger offers a short story on loss, eternity, and olive trees .

Bezalel Naor translates and contextualizes a poem by Pinchas Peli about the home of Rav Kook.