Listening to the Jews of Silence in Soviet Popular Culture
Jewishness, antisemitism, popular culture and Russian television in the postwar era? Historian Maya Balakirsky Katz explains.
A Journey to the Land of Prayer
An exclusive look into Rav Dov Singer's new English work on prayer, Prepare My Prayer.
Song of the Sea: Making a Space for Joy and Sorrow
Zach Truboff draws on personal experience in considering the place of Yizkor on Yom Tov.
Notes on the Conversation surrounding Faith Shattered and Restored / Post-Modern Orthodoxy.
Marc Dworkin re-examines the impact of Rav Shagar's thought on the English-speaking audience.
A New Coffee-Table Humash is a Gateway to Academic Biblical Scholarship
As we begin to read Sefer Shemot, Yosef Lindell explores Koren Publishers' new series, The Tanakh of the Land of Israel, the first volume to use Rabbi Sacks’ Humash translation.
Rekindling the Holy Fire: Fighting over Faith in the Aish Kodesh
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.
Ahron Marcus: The Leading Hasidic, Zionist, Scholar of Ancient Judaism You Never Heard of
Who's the Pioneer of Hasidic Literature, Most Important Zionist, and Defender of the Masorah? Shlomo Zuckier explores Ahron Marcus' legacy.
My Last Conversation with Rav Amital
With the 10th yarhtzeit of Rav Yehuda Amital, founding Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, upcoming this Sunday, we are honored to publish some poignant remembrances from his students. First up is Yehuda Mirsky of Brandeis University, who recalls his last conversation with Rav Amital.
The Autism Question and Beyond: Rereading the Joseph Saga
R. Yitzchak Blau analyzes the 2018 book, Was Yosef on the Spectrum?
There Are Jews Everywhere: Divine Revelation through the Other in Malamud’s “Angel Levine”
Eileen Watts puts the writings of Bernard Malamud in conversation with today's immigrant debate.
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