Modern Orthodoxy is hard to understand and harder to live. Orthodoxy is a set of views and behaviors that is governed by […]
For far too long, we have overly praised volunteers for bringing outside expertise to our organizations, while underinvesting in the ongoing professional […]
One of the greatest paradoxes of “the American Jewish establishment” is that it is only believed to really exist by those who […]
…while Jewish organizations should be allowed to exercise caution about their overt structural partnerships with those protesting them outside, the quick mapping […]
…a larger political phenomenon in the Jewish community…on the disincentivizing of all forms of “courageous leadership” by relatively small numbers of individuals […]
I think a schism in American Modern Orthodoxy will have grave consequences both practically AND ideologically for both conservative and liberal sides […]
The basic political theory behind organized Jewish communal (read: establishment) politics in America since World War II has been to applaud and […]
A comparison between Avot and Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists underscores striking similarities and differences between the compositions and thereby functions as […]
Many English versions translate משתה generally as either “feast” (e.g., ESV, KJV, NKJV) or “banquet” (e.g., NASB, NIV, NRS, RSV, TNK) and […]
Philologists can sometimes forget that texts are not themselves autonomous subjects that move here and there, or chameleons that change color to […]
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