Symposium

In this next installment in our Israel symposium, Erica Brown argues that for Jewish students after October 7, choosing secular college is just not the choice it used to be.

Historian Malka Simkovich explores ancient diasporic responses to collective trauma and what they can tell us about our responses to the aftermath of October 7th.

Historian Henry Abramson, who is currently releasing a series of video lectures contextualizing Israeli history and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, asks hard questions about how to understand the post-October 7th world.

Last year, Rabbis Ethan Tucker and Micha'el Rosenberg released an updated edition of their influential 2017 work, Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law. In this review, Steven Gotlib outlines the book's core halakhic arguments and assesses its reception by contemporary Jewish thinkers. He concludes with a consideration of the relationship between halakhic egalitarian practice and mainstream Orthodox Judaism, including potential paths that this relationship may take in the future.

How is the U.K. community dealing with the meteoric rise in antisemitic acts since the outbreak of war? Michael Harris, a community rabbi, professor, and father of an Israeli soldier, shares his unique perspective.

Rachel Sharansky-Danziger limns the deep collective pain of October 7th on Israelis and forges a way forward amidst its intensity.