The Making of “Lights”
Shmuel Klitsner's insider perspectives on making a Hanukkah classic.
Two Paradigms of Teshuvah?
Yehoshua Pfeffer on self-abnegating vs. life-affirming teshuva.
How to Feel “Sight Damage”: A Case Study on Sensory Imagination and Halakhic Understanding
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.
Wanted: Precision, Nuance, and Avodat Hashem
Jeffrey Woolf contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.
A Year in Review – 2022
As 2022 comes to a close, the Lehrhaus team is proud to feature some highlights from our contributions this past year. Yet again, we have published at least one hundred original pieces across a wide variety of genres.
“A Nation for all its Citizens”: A Halakhic Analysis
Aryeh Dienstag
Since October 7 and the war that followed, public debate has intensified around the legal status of non-Jews living in the State of...
Can a Court Really Ban Kapparot and Why it Matters for the American Jewish...
Michael (Avi) Helfand on a recent court case with implications for American Jews as members of both a religious and a minority community.
Letter to the Editor: On Rav Melamed’s Approach to Conversion
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...
Faithful Quotations: Of Saying, Bringing, and Citing
Authors mis-citing citations on authors citing authors. What gives? Yiddish.
The Utility of Ambiguity
Dina Brawer explores "certainty" and "doubt" in rabbinic tradition.
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