A Return to the World of Medieval Ashkenaz
Alan Jotkowitz reviews the latest volume of Dr. Haym Soloveitchik’s collected essays, bringing us back to the world of medieval Ashkenaz.
Women’s Torah Study and Cosmic Evolution
Ilan Fuchs on the Lubavitcher Rebbe's unique view on women's Torah learning.
The Parenthetical Problem of Alenu
Zev Eleff on a perennially interesting portion of the liturgy.
Hasidim and Academics Debate a Rebbe’s Faith during the Holocaust (on Facebook, of all...
Henry Abramson debates Shaul Magid on the faith of the Aish Kodesh.
A Purim Teaching for our Time: Malbim’s Proto-Feminist Commentary on Esther
Purim - Armed with feminist and political theory, Don Seeman probes the depths of Malbim's Esther commentary.
The Brachos Bee and Becoming American Orthodox Jews
The Brachos Bee, Zev Eleff argues, shows how Orthodox Jews Americanize and form their own particular religious subculture.
Cultural Heritage in an Age of Genocide
Matthew Omolesky considers the importance of culture in the face of genocide.
Tzaddik ve-Ra Lo: Revisiting the Problem of Evil in Chaim Grade’s My Quarrel with...
Marina Zilbergerts presents the philosophical questions posed by Chaim Grade's “My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner,” and compares his arguments to those of other major thinkers such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche.
(How) Can we Know Orthodox Judaism is True?
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?
Rabbi Lamm, Aliens, and Imitating God in the Age of AI
Max Hollanders compares the theological issues raised by alien life and AI.
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