Meta-Reflections

Shlomo Zuckier explores some surprising connections between the Talmud and the field of behavioral economics.

Nathaniel Helfgot outlines decision making in matters of halakhic policy and meta-halakhah.

Lawrence Kaplan responds to Eli Putterman's essay on Reish Laqish and sexuality.

What sort of powers did Hazal have in the first century? Ari Lamm wonders.

A growing list of dati le’umi leaders and thinkers frame war as a desirable state and even an opportunity for spiritual elevation. Religious Israeli activist Ariel Shwartz traces this trend with alarm and argues that it contradicts deep-rooted Torah values. Translated by Mordechai Blau.

Does the Rambam means what he says about gender relations? Yosef Bronstein surveys the intellectual landscape.

Steven Gotlib reviews Eugene Korn’s To Be a Holy People: Jewish Tradition and Ethical Values, a book which asks hard questions about whether Halakhah can integrate with the demands of contemporary ethics.

Ari Lamm explores a recent instance of talmudic censorship, as well as its implications for thinking about Jewish-Christian relations and American society at large.

Yisroel Ben-Porat offers historical, hashkafic, and personal reflections on what’s often called the “Judeo-Christian” tradition and whether a Torah u-Madda outlook can embrace the study of Christianity.

Sarah Rudolph responds to Zev Eleff's article on "Digital Democratization".