Holidays

Shlomo Zuckier seeks and uncovers rabbinic-Biblical intertextuality.

Yosef Lindell offers a brief history of Pesah guides.

Jerome Marcus comments on the connection between davening with sinners and playing politics.

Aton Holzer offers an existential perspective on the transition from Yom Kippur to Sukkot and applies some Heideggerian concepts to the festival of gathering.

Harvard Professor Jon Levenson weighs in on what stops the floodwaters: rabbinic creativity or the Temple!

David Zvi Kalman reviews Koren Publishers’ new graphic novel version of Megillat Esther.

Levi Morrow provides an all-new translation of Rav Elhanan Nir’s “Kavvanot for Rosh Hashanah,” and analyzes how these theological poems speak about our relationship with God and prayer on Rosh Hashanah.

As we commemorate Yom HaShoah, Shay Pilnik urges us to add a Modern Orthodox voice to a discourse increasingly dominated by secular perspectives.

With a novel reading of Josephus and Gittin, Shana Schwartz proposes that the tragedy of the second hurban and the mystery of subsequent Jewish survival may be understood by reference to the physiological knowledge available in classical antiquity.

Eli Rubin presents a stirring passage from the Zohar, with the Lubavitcher Rebbe's commentary.