Scholarship

The dynamic conversation continues with three letters to the editor widening our perspective on Torah u-Madda. Steve Gotlib grapples with the challenges of living Torah u-Madda in the real world; Ezequiel Antebi Sacca adds a Sephardic view from Argentina; and Eugene Korn adds insight to the Jewish view on Christianity.

Shlomo Zuckier offers a close literary reading of the fascinating Ketia bar Shalom narrative on Avodah Zarah 10b!

Lazarre Simckes analyses Joseph’s dreams through the lens of trauma psychology.

Stephen Denker reconstructs Bert Katz's experience of Kristallnacht in Nentershausen.

Shimon Lerner uncovers a surprising but profound message that goes to the very heart of the Purim story.

Those of us who feel deeply connected and indebted to Hasidism should ask ourselves a difficult and perhaps painful question: Is Netivot Shalom the sefer that we want to represent us to the rest of Am Yisrael?

How do Moses Mendelssohn and Revelation jibe? Judah Kerbel offers some perspective.

Reading R. Eliezer b. Hyrcanus and Shammai through an autistic lens, Liz Shayne explores how uncompromising, righteous anger can find a place in the beit midrash.

Through analyses of Rashi's commentaries on Song of Songs, Lamentations, and Hosea, Devorah Schoenfeld explores narratives of the Jewish nation's relationship to God.

Chaim Trachtman squares biology with Spinoza and Maimonides.