Contemporary

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

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

On Yom Ha'atzmaut, Zach Truboff reflects on Rav Shagar's insistence that the Israeli present must be rooted in the past, and explores the redemptive power of Torah as an answer for modernity.

Merri Ukraincik contemplates G-d's role in our lives.

Seth Farber explores the Rav's 1932 in local Boston historical context.

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

Yakov Z. Mayer reflects on the life of a remarkable Hasidic academic.

Gavriel Lakser offers a new approach to the problem of evil based on the beginning of Genesis.

Tzvi Sinensky responds to Herzl Hefter's Akeida essay.

Our traditional longing for the rebuilding of the Beit Ha-Mikdash elides uncomfortable questions about the dramatic differences between sacrificial worship and our current models of serving God. Meir Kraus argues that the time has come to engage in this difficult conversation, especially in light of the growing religious-political movement to restore Jewish presence on the Temple Mount. Kraus also proposes an “alternative vision” for a future Temple era.