Modern

With newly found material, Bezalel Naor places Rav Kook's Hasidut into historical and literary context.

Did elite rabbinic figures jumpstart Bais Yaakov, or was it a grassroots women's movement? Leslie Ginsparg Klein explains.

Avi Garson traces the rise and fall of the classical Sephardic tradition and calls for a renewed return to its fundamental principles.

Jonathan Ziring comments on the "Jewishness" of religious tolerance.

David Fried offers a novel reading of the Akeidah.

Yosef Bronstein explores the thought of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe.

In his latest for the Lehrhaus, Steven Gotlib reviews the recently published collection of essays, Strauss, Spinoza, and Sinai: Orthodox Judaism and Modern Questions of Faith, which tries to answer: is there a philosophical defense of Orthodoxy in the modern world?

Zev Eleff on a uniquely American Jewish "righteous commodity" Gedolim Cards

As Daf Yomi learners begin studying Shekalim, Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg offers an erudite answer to the question: What is Yerushalmi Shekalim doing in the Babylonian Talmud?

Shlomo Abramovich explores the relationship and tensions between KBY and its founding rosh yeshiva.