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Psalm 121, recited fervently in online prayer spaces and from the Senate floor alike since March, is subject to a seemingly mind-boggling array of interpretations. Michael Weiner blazes a path through the interpretive chaos.

Batya Hefter uses the case of Isaac to illuminate how hasidic masters read the Bible.

Yosef Lindell explores the true nature of the Aseret ha-Dibrot.

Rabbi Daniel Reifman reviews Christine Hayes' Whats Divine about Divine Law?

Zev Eleff and Menachem Butler explore the reception of Moses Mendelssohn in American Orthodox Judaism, focusing on a curious commotion surrounding the bicentennial of Mendelssohn's death

Dan Jutan, Dov Greenwood, and Meir Kerzner explore the fundamentals of Jewish Education.

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 first and last foray in this field, Zev Eleff tries his hand at some Modern Orthodox counter-history.  

In honor of yesterday's Daf Yomi Siyum on Masekhet Eiruvin, Yaakov Jaffe describes how online maps and other technological tools have better enabled communities such as Boston/Cambridge to measure their tehum shabbat.

Tzvi Sinensky contends that the rabbinic and feminist readings of Vashti are not diametrically opposed.