Meta-Reflections

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

Tzvi Sinensky makes a case to consider Rabbi Norman Lamm as pathbreaking Talmud innovator.

Zev Eleff draws on lessons of nineteenth century print culture to help grapple with the Digital Age.

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.

Judah Kerbel explores how differing approaches to listening to music during Sefirat ha-Omer balance the appropriate role for subjectivity in halakhic decision-making.

What do Adam, Enkidu, and Reish Lakish all have in common? Eli Putterman explores.

David Stein with a fresh look at the methods and priorities of teaching Talmud in Modern Orthodox day schools.

Shmuel Hain Reviews Chaim Saiman's Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law.

Bezalel Naor explains what is philosophical about the erstwhile halakhic observances of the Shavuot holiday.

Many synagogue goers found the abbreviated High Holiday services we recently concluded quite appealing. Need we eventually go back to the way it was before coronavirus? Not really, argues Moshe Kurtz, surveying the substantial halakhic support for shortening the services every year.