Scholarship

Ari Hoffman explores the expansive visions of Jewish peoplehood embedded in two major, recently published novels

Hillel Broder reviews the latest release from Jeremiah Lockwood.

No two Orthodox rabbis think exactly the same way, particularly on the matter of Darwinism in the wake of the Scopes Trial. 

Dr. Tovah Lichtenstein responds to the details of the previously published Rav timeline.

Ari Lamm on The Boss and The Bible

Jonathan Muskat responds to Jonathan Sarna regarding a proposed change in the text of the Orthodox Jewish prayer for the government.

In this second-place prize-winning essay for Hadar’s annual Ateret Zvi contest, Nehemia Polen approaches a vexing episode in the Torah through new lens: what if Moses and Aaron were denied entry to the Land of Israel not because of what they did when obtaining water from the rock but because of where they escaped to right before?

A historical document on the Jewish love for the Cubs all-time great third baseman.

A Look at Prof. Louis H. Feldman through the pages of the Yeshiva College student newspaper.

In response to Tzvi Sinensky's earlier essay, Andrew Bennett presents Jewish legal scholar Robert Cover's and noted antisemite Carl Schmitt's thoughts on elu ve-elu.