Gilgamesh and the Rabbis: Knowledge and its Price from Uruk to the Beit Midrash
What do Adam, Enkidu, and Reish Lakish all have in common? Eli Putterman explores.
The Modern Orthodox Vote and the Episcopalian Turn
Why do Orthodox Jews vote the way they do? Zev Eleff builds a case, using some unconventional data.
What are the Essential Questions and Structures of Talmud Study?
Aesopian Language in the Holocaust Writings of the Aish Kodesh of Piaseczno
Rupture and Revelation
Ayelet Wenger weaves together the personal, historical and exegetical in advance of reading Sefer Shemot.
Moses Mendelssohn and the Orthodox Mind
On the Freedom to Pray: A Response to Professor Jonathan Sarna
Jonathan Muskat responds to Jonathan Sarna regarding a proposed change in the text of the Orthodox Jewish prayer for the government.
Praying for Governments We Dislike?
Historian Jonathan Sarna places a recent decision by an Orthodox synagogue to modify the "prayer for the government" into sharp historical focus.
Who Will Defend Maimonides? Rav Soloveitchik on the Mishneh Torah and the Guide
With the aid of some new primary sources, David Curwin offers a fresh view of the Rav's embrace of Rambam and his most important writings.
Searching for the Vatican’s Menorah
Tzvi Sinensky on the lost Menorah, the Vatican theory, and the ideology of the search and mythology.
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