Timely Thoughts

Alan Jotkowitz shares insights into Rambam’s Hilkhot Teshuvah

Moshe Kurtz looks as discomfort as a factor in Halakha

Chana Chava Ford explains what Sukkot might teach us about real religious change.

Dina Brawer explores "certainty" and "doubt" in rabbinic tradition.

Yosef Blau, Senior Mashgiah Ruhani at Yeshiva University, wonders about the direction of Religious Zionism after October 7 and considers the role of Modern Orthodoxy outside of Israel.

Politics from the Pulpit Redux: Don Seeman builds on Jason Herman.

Rachel Sharansky-Danziger limns the deep collective pain of October 7th on Israelis and forges a way forward amidst its intensity.

Benjamin Barer traces the word Hevel through Jewish texts, showing how the use of the same word can teach us both about the wisdom of Kohelet we read this past Shabbat and the character of Hevel who we will read about in this week's Parashah.

Ezra Sivan presents a new analysis of Shabbat and how it throws light on so much more in the Torah.

Elli Fischer Just over a month ago, the Jewish world lost Rabbi Professor David Weiss Halivni, one of its greatest and most creative Talmudic minds...