Scholarship

Did elite rabbinic figures jumpstart Bais Yaakov, or was it a grassroots women's movement? Leslie Ginsparg Klein explains.

Ezra Sivan challenges our understanding of the fifth commandment and all of Sefer Devarim.

Dan Margulies offers a rundown of the sukkah zip-tie construction, the next great halakhic frontier

Malka Simkovich provides a valuable corrective on the parameters of universalism in Judaism and Christianity.

The new book Reclaiming Dignity is taking the Anglo Jewish world by storm. Why? Emmanuel Bloch, who wrote his dissertation on the subject of tzeniut, argues that the work capitalizes on and extends a new, revolutionary halakhic and conceptual framework for tzeniut that has emerged only in recent years - one that offers a lens to the “soul of contemporary Jewish Orthodoxy.”

David Fried forwards the surprising thesis that Maimonides was a medieval mystic.

Chaim Saiman comments on the nature of Simhat Torah.

Jeffrey Fox examines whether watching football is problematic from a Torah point of view.

Jonathan Ziring comments on the "Jewishness" of religious tolerance.

Tzvi Sinensky explores the Biblical origins of Tu be-Av.