The Patron Saint of Rabbis’ Kids
The father heard the voice of God, Elli Fischer explains, but the son ends up with the blade on his neck.
Rebbe Without Walls: The Slonimer Sensation
Tzvi Sinensky on The Slonimer's contemporary popularity
Gedolim Cards and the Commodification of Rabbi-Saints
Zev Eleff on a uniquely American Jewish "righteous commodity" Gedolim Cards
To Rebeccah
Aryeh Klapper recreating a patriarchal voice.
The Troubling Trend of Photoshopping History
Leslie Ginsparg Klein examines a new case of Orthodox censorship, contextualizing it within recent trends and religious culture.
Surrender or Struggle? The Akeidah Reconsidered
Herzl Hefter provides critical perspective on a stream of Akeidah interpretation from Kierkegaard to the Rav
Commanding Knowledge
Elliot Salinger with an erudite and accessible article on Rambam's philosophy of "knowing."
Abraham and the 1960s – Technocracy and the Journey Inward
Sam Glauber examines Abraham's place in his society.
Tanakh, Chapter by Chapter
Susan Jablow on reading Tanakh through the eyes of a ba'alat teshuva
He Sent Out the Raven
Miriam Gedwiser explores the raven's role in parashat Noah