Jewish Thought and History

Yaakov Taubes explores the background to Maimonides’s explanation for how the Mishnah is ordered.

Noam Stadlan offers a heartfelt reinterpretation of Tzidkatkha Tzedek.

After Professor Yaakov Blidstein's passing on Thursday, Marc Herman recalls his teacher's astonishing blend of scholarly creativity and intellectual humility.

A Look at Prof. Louis H. Feldman through the pages of the Yeshiva College student newspaper.

Shlomo Zuckier reviews Rav Aharon Lichtenstein's just-released book on teshuvah

Natan Oliff looks at the various ways Jewish thinkers have found meaning in determinism.

In older times, Christian New Year’s Day celebrations were sometimes marked by antisemitic incidents. Although such days are behind us, Tzvi Sinensky recalls the antisemitic canard that Jewish men menstruated, a pervasive and disturbing myth that demeaned Jews and all women.

Steven Gotlib explores similarities between Rabbis Dov Singer and Arthur Green in their models of prayer and how this model can make prayer meaningful even when experiencing doubts in one’s faith.

In his latest for Lehrhaus, Steven Gotlib considers Neo-Hasidism’s continued inroads into Orthodox thought and practice in his review of Contemporary Uses and Forms of Hasidut, the Orthodox Forum volume edited by Shlomo Zuckier.

Tzvi Sinensky on The Slonimer's contemporary popularity