Modern Men of Faith: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’s Critique of Rabbi Dr. Joseph B....
In honor of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s fifth yahrtzeit, we present Steven Gotlib's study of Rabbi Sacks's longstanding criticism of the religious worldview of Rabbi Dr. Joseph B. Soloveitchik.
The Chief Rabbi and the Rebbe: Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s Engagement with Habad Hasidism
Aryeh Solomon explores that lifelong influence of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.
Humanitarian Aid for Gaza: A Halakhic Argument
David Polsky explores a passage in the Sifrei that is key to articulating a Halakahic position on withholding food as a military tactic.
Lifnei Hashem Tit’haru — The Hinge of Leviticus and the Heart of Yom Kippur
Chaim Saiman explores the grammatical structures of Yom Kippur mussaf, particularly in comparison to Torah reading.
Running and Returning: A Personal Reflection on Prayer, Contemporary Poetry, and Yom Kippur’s Neilah...
In this essay, Yehoshua November presents a model for preparing for the High Holidays
The Miracles of the Rabbis
In a lyrical meditation on his wife's suffering, Mel Waldman reflects on the compassion of the rabbis who brought divinity into their lives
Tradition for Non-Traditional Jews
Steven Gotlib review's Elliot Cosgrove's "For Such a Time as This: On Being Jewish Today," which urges unity among American Jewry.
Wine Not? The missing holiday whose time has come
Aton M. Holzer
The fifteenth of Av – among the most minor of minor festivals on the Jewish calendar – is marked in the diaspora...
Manna, Mitzvot, and Meaning
Ned Krasnopolsky explores the roles of meaning and obedience in matan Torah.
A Mathematical Reevaluation of the Prohibition on Counting Jews
Mark Glass
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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...
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