Talmud and Halakhah

Shmuel Klitsner's insider perspectives on making a Hanukkah classic.

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

Howard Apfel reviews Sacred Training: A Halakhic Guidebook for Medical Students and Residents.

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

  Mark Glass I. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away. … Growing up, that’s how the gabba’im of my youth minyan would determine if...

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.

In 1927, Rabbi Boruch Ber Leibowitz wrote a poem, an ode to Rabbi Hayyim Soloveitchik of Brisk. Nati Helfgot provides the background and a translation.

Letter to the Editor I found Rabbi Avi Baumol’s recent review of Rav Eliezer Melamed’s new sefer on giyyur (conversion) comprehensive and enlightening. However, I...

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.

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