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How can we respond to a Seder during which it is prohibited to host guests? Yitzchak Etshalom and David Block each offer unique tefillot to be recited at our Seder table this year.

Marking the centennial year since the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Melissa Klapper explores Jewish women's participation in the suffrage movement and the response to women's suffrage across sectors of the Jewish community.

Avi Killip explores three Talmudic stories dealing with the feelings of discomfort that can be involved in helping the poor, even when we know it’s the right thing to do.

Tzvi Sinensky on The Slonimer's contemporary popularity

In Part II of his series on trop, William Gewirtz explains the principle of recursion and how it helps us interpret texts.

Lehrhaus Editor Shlomo Zuckier examines two divergent understandings of Jewish law.

Purim - Armed with feminist and political theory, Don Seeman probes the depths of Malbim's Esther commentary.

Howard Apfel reviews Sacred Training: A Halakhic Guidebook for Medical Students and Residents.

Baruch Sterman, founder of the @Ptil Tekhelet Institute, tells the story of Rav Rabinovitch's pivotal role in the discovery of the tekhelet - and an episode of "The Worst Jobs in History," a 2004-2006 BBC series.

Stu Halpern weighs in on the eternal wisdom Torah u-Madda offers the world during the fraught times in which we live.