Jeremiah Lockwood’s New Cantorial Blues Album, Kol Nidre, is a Yom Kippur Dream
Hillel Broder reviews the latest release from Jeremiah Lockwood.
“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.
Kohelet: Seeking to Uncover and Bury
Shlomo Zuckier seeks and uncovers rabbinic-Biblical intertextuality.
The Species for Change
Chana Chava Ford explains what Sukkot might teach us about real religious change.
Shavat Suru: The First Kinah, Matter and Form
Yaakov Jaffe examines how the form in the Kinnah "Shavat Suru" gives us insight into its broader meaning.
The Meeting
A new poem and introductory essay by Ben Corvo, in memory of his father.
“Like a Fleeting Dream”: U-netaneh Tokef, Dreams, and the Meaning of the High Holy...
Man’s actions—even those that seem fleeting and insignificant—can have an impact, positive or negative. Oren Oppenheim explores themes of u-Netaneh Tokef
Don’t Forget David’s Literary Temple! A Rebuttal to Levi Morrow
Harvard Professor Jon Levenson weighs in on what stops the floodwaters:
rabbinic creativity or the Temple!
The Quest for an Objective Halakhic Standard by which to Judge Artistic Expression: A...
Does halakhah have something to say about the subjectivity of aesthetic experience? Yosie Levine investigates the case of fashioning a replica Temple Menorah as adjudicated in the eighteenth century and what it can tell us about halachic thinking about art and aesthetics.
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