Meta-Reflections

Shira Hecht-Koller Earlier this year, Apple released the iPhone X. When the first iPhone was released in 2007, I was completing my second year of...

Dan Jutan, Dov Greenwood, and Meir Kerzner explore the fundamentals of Jewish Education.

Rabbi Daniel Reifman reviews Christine Hayes' Whats Divine about Divine Law?

In commemoration of the upcoming Sheloshim of Rav Moshe Kahn, Mindy Schwartz Zolty shares a Hesped of her teacher in which she discusses his derekh ha-limmud and his derekh as a melamed.

Tzvi Sinensky comments on the pitfalls of being overly dependent on the "Talmudic reid."

Moshe Koppel Reviews Chaim Saiman's Halakhah: The Rabbinic Idea of Law.

The new book Reclaiming Dignity is taking the Anglo Jewish world by storm. Why? Emmanuel Bloch, who wrote his dissertation on the subject of tzeniut, argues that the work capitalizes on and extends a new, revolutionary halakhic and conceptual framework for tzeniut that has emerged only in recent years - one that offers a lens to the “soul of contemporary Jewish Orthodoxy.”

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

Yaakov Taubes explores the background to Maimonides’s explanation for how the Mishnah is ordered.

R. Shimshon Nadel explores the connection between the Hasmonean dynasty and the modern-day State of Israel.