Culture

In these two poems, Maya Bernstein reexamines the ancient praises of the Jewish woman.

Nechama Sternberg contemplates her relationship to her grandfather, and remarks on the person he was in life.

In this collection of poems, Baruch November explores the longing for spiritual connection in a modern society.

In his newest review, former Lehrhaus webmaster Steve Gotlib looks at Hasidim, Suffering and Renewal: The Prewar and Holocaust Legacy of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira and examines scholars’ differing views on whether the Aish Kodesh experienced a crisis of faith due to the Holocaust.

Shlomo Zuckier reviews Rav Aharon Lichtenstein's just-released book on teshuvah

In honor of his tenth yahrtzheit, art historian Jackie Frankel Yaakov explores the art of Jewish Israeli artist Edwin Salomon (1935-2014). She argues that he was able to embrace his own expressionistic, Surrealism-evoking style when these approaches were marginalized in the Israeli art, shedding light on the ways he processed his experiences in the Holocaust and as a new immigrant to Israel.

Shumel Hain discusses how we can bridge the "Tragic Gap" between the world envisioned in the blessing on budding fruit tress and our current reality of pandemic and tragedy

Aryeh Klapper recreating a patriarchal voice.

Shlomo Spivack discusses the anti-spirituality of his teacher, Rav Menachem Froman.

  Rebecca Cypess As the only musical instrument used in modern Jewish liturgy, the shofar possesses a humble form. Halakhah forbids the modification of the shofar’s...