Holidays

What is it like to make aliyah from New Jersey precisely at a time when North American Jewry is suffering more heavily than Israel? Ahead of Yom Yerushalayim, Sarah Rindner, drawing on Yehuda ha-Levi and Yehudah Amichai, reflects.

Alex Ozar drills down on the point of the Akeidah, responding to Herzl Hefter and Tzvi Sinensky.

Matt Lubin reflects on the holiday of Shavuot.

Why did the women bring musical instruments out of Egypt? In her first Lehrhaus article, musicologist Rebecca Cypess draws a fascinating historical analogy between biblical and African-American slavery to shed light on the Exodus in Jewish tradition.

It is customary to celebrate Tu Bi-Shevat by eating fruits and reciting the She-Hehiyanu blessing on them. This custom, however, has proved challenging in recent years as advances in technology have made it difficult to find new fruit—as defined by halakhah—to say the She-Hehiyanu

Abe Mezrich presents a poem on the Book of Ruth.

Dr. Devora Steinmetz offers a meditation on the significance of Hanukkah and darkness.

Ezra Sivan asks: Where is the justice in the tenth plague?

Zach Truboff argues that Purim reminds us of our vulnerability even with the State of Israel.

In an investigation of the question of saying Hallel on Yom Ha'atzmaut, Shimshon HaKohen Nadel draws on analyses of Shirat Hayam and the splitting of the sea.