Scholarship

Joshua Yuter considers rabbinic conceptions of justice in the age of #metoo.

Last year at this time, when the pandemic brought tremendous upheaval to Jewish communal institutions the mikveh remained open for use. In this expansive piece, Mijal Bitton and Elana Stein Hain examine the communal response to mikveh during COVID-19, explore the experiences of women who chose to use--or not use--the mikveh during this time, and offer constructive recommendations for the future.

Moshe Kurtz looks as discomfort as a factor in Halakha

Tzvi Sinensky explores the Talmudic version of the Roman myth of Narcissus

Sharon Galper Grossman and Shamai A. Grossman, leading doctors writing from quarantine, explain why even the Noda be-Yehuda, who requires that the sick person be before us, would agree that a public health crisis is subject to the leniencies of pikuah nefesh.

Ariel Evan Mayse considers the neo-Hasidic approaches of Shlomo Carlebach and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.

Moshe Kurtz explores the different meanings of silence in Halakhah in light of recent political events

What was the covenant of peace God gave Pinchas? R. Shlomo Zuckier puts the pieces together to find out

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

Two readers respond to Michael Broyde's recent article on time-bound commandments. Leah Sarna critiques Broyde's omission of female scholarship, and Avi Siegal argues that Broyde's unifying theory skews the data.