The Source of Faith is Faith Alone
Rabbi David Wolkenfeld explores the meaning of faith in this review of Rabbi Chaim Jachter's Reason to Believe
A Jewish Theology of Depression
Atara Cohen thinks through what our texts have to say about depression.
Prayer in an Age of Distraction
Zachary Truboff considers the experience of prayer, and what two recent publications on Tefillah emerging from the Religious Zionist community contribute.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s Portrait of Moses
In honor of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’s 70th birthday, Ari Lamm explores his legacy as a biblical commentator.
Christians, the Talmud, and American Politics
Ari Lamm explores a recent instance of talmudic censorship, as well as its implications for thinking about Jewish-Christian relations and American society at large.
Why Do We Deserve God’s Favor?
Ezra Sivan probes the Sabbath and the Torah's call to love God.
The New Jewish Philosophy of Rav Shagar
Continuing the conversation, Dr. Miriam Feldmann-Kaye introduces postmodernism and responds to some critics of Rav Shagar.
On Subjectivity and Pluralism: Sparks of Rav Shagar’s Thought
Udi Dvorkin offers a plea to take Rav Shagar at his full value, which means reading him in the original Hebrew.
Racism Redux
Chaim Trachtman offers some concluding thoughts on Judaism and racisim, and responds to Elli Fischer.
The “Between-the-Lines” Faith of Rabbi Hershel Schachter
Zev Eleff takes us through the theology of one of American Orthodoxy much-discussed but less-analyzed rabbinic leaders, at least from this point of view.