Talmud and Halakhah

William Gewirtz discusses the necessity of a Halakhic Dateline.

With a novel reading of Josephus and Gittin, Shana Schwartz proposes that the tragedy of the second hurban and the mystery of subsequent Jewish survival may be understood by reference to the physiological knowledge available in classical antiquity.

Rami Reiner examines how our understanding of a Talmudic passage could change if we allow for the possibility of it being a comedy.

Bezalel Naor explains what is philosophical about the erstwhile halakhic observances of the Shavuot holiday.

Devora Steinmetz explores how modern communication technology should impact the question of when to start shiva.

Jeffrey Fox contributes to the Lehrhaus Symposium on the recent OU statement regarding female clergy.

Aton Holzer explores the inscrutability of the Mitzvah of Shofar.

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Moshe Kurtz examines the Torah’s prohibition on cross-dressing as a lens to view the shifting contemporary gender norms.

Yonah Lavery-Yisraeli offers a novel interpretation of the Talmudic sugya of miun that offers profound insight into how the Rabbis dealt with the problem of child sexual abuse.