Subjective Experience in Halakhah: Music During Sefirah as a Case Study
Judah Kerbel explores how differing approaches to listening to music during Sefirat ha-Omer balance the appropriate role for subjectivity in halakhic decision-making.
A Letter to Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
A poem addressed to survivors in the Chareidi community about the existential confusion endured by child sexual abuse.
Backyard Prayer (Covid-19)
Akiva Shapiro depicts the experience of outdoor prayers during the pandemic.
Saiman’s Halakhah: Rabbinic Law as Culture
Suzanne Last Stone reviews Chaim Saiman's Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law.
Is Remix Judaism for Everyone?
Steven Gotlib reviews Roberta Rosenthal Kwall’s book Remix Judaism, which has an important message about navigating Jewish practice in the modern world for non-Orthodox and Orthodox Jews alike.
The Haunted Yeshivah: Abaye and the Torah of ADHD
Elli Fischer examines the interplay between Talmudic Halakhah and Aggadah.
A Time for Rain
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
The Living Bibles of the Vatican Library
AJ Berkovitz explores the "life" of Jewish books, from authors to owners to outside the margins.
“Looking for a Havvayah” A Genealogy of “Experience” on the High Holy Days
With the Yamim Noraim approaching, Avinoam Stillman analyzes Ḥavvayah, “experience,” in the thought of A.D. Gordon.
A Tribute to Arthur Hyman z”l: Scholar, Teacher, and Exemplary Human Being
David Berger's eulogy for Revel's late Prof. Arthur Hyman, a leading scholar of Medieval Jewish philosophy.
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