Scholarship

What do Adam, Enkidu, and Reish Lakish all have in common? Eli Putterman explores.

Does the Torah support a universalist or ethnonationalist political orientation? In this timely essay, Ezra Zuckerman Sivan explores the meaning behind key stories in Genesis through the framework of the Aleinu prayer.

Chesky Kopel analyzes an early Zionist text to give insight into Jewish reactions to the Armenian genocide.

Yaakov Jaffe explores a common synagogue practice, and why it doesn't seem so halakhic. minyan,

The Hasidic work, Aish Kodesh, under the scholarly microscope, by Henry Abramson.

Contemporary physicians have been heroic in the battle against COVID-19, but what was it like to be one of a handful of Jewish doctors confronting the Bubonic Plague during the 17th-century in Italy? Prolific medical halakhist and historian Eddie Reichman takes a close look at the four Jewish graduates of the Padua medical school class of 1623.

What sort of Jewish unity was there at Mount Sinai?

David Stein with a fresh look at the methods and priorities of teaching Talmud in Modern Orthodox day schools.

Sarah Zager puts #MeToo in conversation with the Talmudic discussion of the death penalty.

Leah Sarna addresses the perceived disconnect between the ideal Torah U-Madda lifestyle and the gendered reality of advanced Torah study for women.