Scholarship

Jeffrey Fox examines whether watching football is problematic from a Torah point of view.

Joshua Stadlan carefully explores the “blemishes” that invalidate a kohein for service in the Mishkan to argue that they were not an original part of God’s plan.

As we begin to read Sefer Shemot, Yosef Lindell explores Koren Publishers' new series, The Tanakh of the Land of Israel, the first volume to use Rabbi Sacks’ Humash translation.

Alex Ozar explores wartime law in the Rambam.

Tzvi Sinensky suggests that we can best understand the Haggadah against the backdrop of Sefer Devarim.

David Bashevkin articulates a religious educator’s perspective on why people become religious

Did the Founding Fathers derive their biblical values from the Hebrew Bible, or just the Old Testament? Yisroel Ben-Porat reviews "Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land."

Jeffrey Saks concludes The Lehrhaus series, mapping out the intellectual biography of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

It is customary to celebrate Tu Bi-Shevat by eating fruits and reciting the She-Hehiyanu blessing on them. This custom, however, has proved challenging in recent years as advances in technology have made it difficult to find new fruit—as defined by halakhah—to say the She-Hehiyanu

Two letters to the editor provide alternative perspectives on the question of what Jewish law wants American abortion law to be.