Scholarship

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Shlomo Zuckier surveys and analyzes the debate over Zoom Seders during coronavirus.

Yehoshua Pfeffer on self-abnegating vs. life-affirming teshuva.

In our saturated environment, can any contemporary work on hilkhot Shabbat break new ground? Ezra Schwartz explains that Rav Rimon's newest work does precisely this.

Just in advance of the shloshim for David Ellenson, the former president of Hebrew Union College, Jonathan D. Sarna pays tribute to a man whose life, work, and friendships spanned the Jewish denominational divide.

Tzvi Sinensky reimagines the utilitarian case for Torah u-Madda. Far from seeing the study of Madda as a concession to the need to earn a livelihood, the new utilitarianism uses cutting-edge scholarship to solve some of the most pressing problems in our schools and communities.

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

We will all be much more distant from each other this Rosh Hashanah. That’s why, argues Ranana Dine, it’s time to revive the tradition of sending physical greeting cards.

Aaron Segal reviews Staying Human by Harris Bor.

On this flag day, Moshe Kurtz surveys the arguments for and against displaying national flags in synagogues.