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.
The State of the Conversation
Zev Eleff and Ari Lamm cap off the Lehrhaus Symposium on the OU statement.
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.
The OU Paper: Three Lenses
Elli Fischer contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.
An Alternative History of American Modern Orthodoxy
There’s No Need to Sacrifice Sacrifice: A Response to Rabbi Herzl Hefter
Tzvi Sinensky responds to Herzl Hefter's Akeida essay.
Talking To and About God
Ari Lamm on the Bat Kol in rabbinic literature and its implications for Orthodox discourse
Rebbe Without Walls: The Slonimer Sensation
Tzvi Sinensky on The Slonimer's contemporary popularity
The Troubling Trend of Photoshopping History
Leslie Ginsparg Klein examines a new case of Orthodox censorship, contextualizing it within recent trends and religious culture.
Surrender or Struggle? The Akeidah Reconsidered
Herzl Hefter provides critical perspective on a stream of Akeidah interpretation from Kierkegaard to the Rav