Talmud and Halakhah

Gila Bieler-Hoch reviews Hilkhot Nashim, published by JOFA and Maggid Books.

Miriam Gedwiser explores the time Rabban Yohanan ben Zakai's students sought to comfort their teacher.

Alan Jotkowitz disagrees with Sharon Galper Grossman’s and Shamai Grossman’s halakhic argument that wealthy nations should provide booster shots to their own populations before contributing doses to poorer countries.

Elinatan Kupferberg argues that the boundaries between Torah and Madda have blurred and evolved throughout Jewish intellectual history. This erudite analysis upends our assumptions about Torah u-Madda and breathtakingly reimagines its past, present, and future.

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

Kate Rozansky explores the life of Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai through the prism of the women in his life.

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

Yaakov Jaffe explains how Biblical grammar and parables come together in Amos to teach us about women's Talmud Torah.

Shlomo Zuckier surveys and analyzes the debate over Zoom Seders during coronavirus.

Daniel Shlian explores instances of pun usage in Jewish text.