Contemporary

William Kolbrener offers insight into the intellectual underpinnings of the Rav's 1932 interview recently re-published by The Lehrhaus.

In December 1932, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik had just arrived in Boston and outlined his vision for Orthodox Jewish education in the United States.

Yisrael Kashkin and Jeffrey Saks provide a timeline for the Rav's American arrival.

What was on Nehama Leibowitz's bookshelf? Her authoritative biographer tells all, just in time for Nehama's 20th Yahrtzeit.

Lawrence Kaplan defends his translation of Halakhic Man and calls for more efforts to make Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik's writings accessible to English readers.

Zev Eleff offers a rejoinder and some reflections on "What if Rav Aharon Had Stayed?"

Tovah Lichtenstein responds to and critiques Zev Eleff's counter-history, "What if Rav Aharon Had Stayed?"

In his first and last foray in this field, Zev Eleff tries his hand at some Modern Orthodox counter-history.  

Jewishness, antisemitism, popular culture and Russian television in the postwar era? Historian Maya Balakirsky Katz explains.

Zev Eleff and Ari Lamm cap off the Lehrhaus Symposium on the OU statement.