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

Yaakov Bieler continues the conversation on Talmud education, introducing "action research" to the discussion.

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.

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.

Chaim Trachtman explores the relationship between moral instincts and rational thinking in Rabbinic Psychology.

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...

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.

Yaakov Jaffe responds to David Stein's earlier call to revamp the standard day school Talmud curriculum.

Yonah Lavery-Yisraeli offers a careful examination of an enigmatic discussion in the Shulhan Arukh’s laws on neighborly relations. She demonstrates how “radical presence” and attention to sensory details is an essential strategy for halakhic decision-making.