Scholarship

Alex Ozar explores wartime law in the Rambam.

Alex Ozar catalogues types of truthfulness in rabbinic literature.

Sharon Galper Grossman and Shamai Grossman examine the halakhic permissibility of vaccine mandates by governments and employers.

Can we learn Torah from Star Wars, superheroes, or the hit Netflix show ‘The Crown’? Olivia Friedman, a teacher at Ida Crown Jewish Academy in Chicago, says yes, arguing that bringing pop culture into the Judaic studies classroom in a meaningful way not only makes learning more fun, but models the type of integration that Modern Orthodoxy stands for.

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

Alex Ozar analyzes the writings of R. Soloveitchik and several other contemporary Jewish thinkers to argue for the existence of a Mitzvah of become a prophet.

Elliot Salinger with an erudite and accessible article on Rambam's philosophy of "knowing."

AJ Berkovitz offers a charitable perspective on American politicians' apparent errors in citing the Bible.

Daniel Goldberg examines how four versions of a Midrash about Shemini Atzeret reflect different aspects of the Jewish people's relationship with God.

Herzl Hefter provides critical perspective on a stream of Akeidah interpretation from Kierkegaard to the Rav