Scholarship

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

Avi Garson traces the rise and fall of the classical Sephardic tradition and calls for a renewed return to its fundamental principles.

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

Ezra Zuckerman Sivan explains what it means when the Torah says that Moses's burial site was hidden.

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.

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

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

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