As for the broader challenges confronting Modern Orthodoxy, its religious and lay leadership, if it intends to be relevant, will have to […]
Orthodox Jewry of our days needs new constructs. Tradition, once again needs to be reshaped. As opposed to the reformers of the […]
…the British have always been in touch with their pagan folklore, says Maria Tatar, a Harvard professor of children’s literature and folklore. […]
The basic requirement to respect the existing legal framework of a territory has long been under pressure, for a variety of reasons. […]
…consistent with my impressions of much of Los Angeles Jewish life — creative, casual, relaxed — particularly compared to New York. “New […]
Who were the Prohibitionists? Many of the leaders were, as McGirr acknowledges, Progressives, engaged in a broad and idealistic project of reform. […]
Rabbinic writing about Jesus was very popular in the mid 19th century, especially by liberal and Reform rabbis arguing for Jewish emancipation. […]
In the wake of America’s national Prohibition, public consumption of alcohol declined to a marked degree for a number of reasons, but […]
Rabbi Gordimer is not obliged to endorse or even respect Open Orthodoxy’s agenda or its approach to Orthodox Judaism. But he has […]
R. Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik, the traditional rabbi from Lithuania…is actually more sympathetic to Christian doctrine, even the doctrine of the Trinity, and […]
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