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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.”

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

Ezra Sivan compares biblical covenants, the all-important circumcision of Abraham and Shabbat

Tzvi Sinensky comments on the pitfalls of being overly dependent on the "Talmudic reid."

Noah Marlowe offers a personal reflection on the experience of simultaneously studying Hilkhot Aveilut and coping with loss from a clinical social work perspective. He explores the similarities and differences between the two lenses and how they could each benefit from being in conversation with each other.

Meir Ekstein contransts Rav Soloveitchik’s and Rav Lichtenstein’s respective approaches to Teshuva.

Tzvi Sinensky suggests that the Megillah itself confronts the question of Purim's legitimacy.

Tzvi Sinensky As chronicled in Robert Putnam’s 2000 classic book, Bowling Alone, loneliness is one of the vexing challenges of modern life. The advent of the...

Jennie Rosenfeld reviews David Bashevkin's "Sin-a-gogue: Sin and Failure in Jewish Thought."

A call for a new Modern Orthodox Humash, and a history of the current ones, by Yosef Lindell.