Personal Reflections

Zach Truboff draws on personal experience in considering the place of Yizkor on Yom Tov.

Shmuel Greene describes the lessons he learned from his Rebbe, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz ztz"l

Nathaniel Helfgot reflects on all of the things he needed to know as a rabbi that he didn’t learn in rabbinical school.

Naima Hirsch Gelman provides three powerful poems exploring important themes in halakhic womanhood.

We will all be much more distant from each other this Rosh Hashanah. That’s why, argues Ranana Dine, it’s time to revive the tradition of sending physical greeting cards.

Malka Simkovich with a careful reading of the work of the late Leonard Cohen.

Eric Suben considers various Jewish and non-Jewish representations of angels and their significance in his life.

Ayelet Wenger weaves together the personal, historical and exegetical in advance of reading Sefer Shemot.

Elli Fischer examines the interplay between Talmudic Halakhah and Aggadah.

Can we learn Torah from Star Wars, superheroes, or the hit Netflix show ‘The Crown’? Olivia Friedman, a teacher at Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, says yes, arguing that bringing pop culture into the Judaic studies classroom in a meaningful way not only makes learning more fun, but models the type of integration that Modern Orthodoxy stands for.