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 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...

Yom Yerushalayim: On Not Yet, Always Already, and the [Im]possibility of Crossing Over

Aton Holzer reflects on Jerusalem and Zionism.

Teaching Israel and Jewish History Post-October 7: A Values Proposition

Ethan Zadoff discusses what Israel education should look like post-October 7.

A Torah Theodicy: The Very Goodness of Evil

Gavriel Lakser offers a new approach to the problem of evil based on the beginning of Genesis.

Considering The Changing Landscape in Modern Orthodox Israel Education

Hillel Rapp explores how Israel education has changed in a post-Oct. 7 world.