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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.

David Fried clarifies the concept of imitating God through Rashi's oft-neglected reading of “It is not good for man to be alone”

What sort of Jewish unity was there at Mount Sinai?

Concluding our series on the recent Siyum ha-Shas, Channa Lockshin Bob wonders: What do we want the next Women's Siyum ha-Shas to look like?

Moshe Kurtz regales us with his love of science fiction & fantasy, suggesting that the genre’s literature, movies, and games can teach Torah lessons in ethics and morality, but cautioning that Torah u-Madda ought not to become Torah u-Movies.

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

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

  Warren Zev Harvey Review of Shai Held, Judaism is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024). Originally...

Judy Taubes Sterman examines Judges Chapter 3.

Ranana Dine compares Christian and Jewish views on the value of having a beautiful Temple.