“Short apodictic summaries of halakhah are necessarily monolithic”
Short apodictic summaries of halakhah are necessarily monolithic. By contrast, discussions citing and accurately...
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“…it appears that wine was much more expensive in Babylonia than beer in the Talmudic period”
…it appears that wine was much more expensive in Babylonia than beer in the...
“I’m tired of the reduction of Jewish journalism to a celebration of ethnic tics”
The most important subject facing the American Jewish community is the new financial and...
“…the religious leadership of an institution whose motto is “Torah U’Madda” has frozen its conception of religiously permissible Madda at that with which the Rav engaged at the University of Berlin in the 1920s…”
Yeshiva University faces many challenges, some reflective of broader societal trends and some of...
“We need to believe that Torah U’Madda was not a limited-time offer that expired sometime in the last century…”
Today’s Centrist Orthodox world–the world of Yeshiva University, the world that produces the overwhelming...
“Hillel is showing the Jewish world that, if you take care of your own,…they, in turn, will want to serve our people”
Hillel is showing the Jewish world that, if you take care of your own...
“Ancient alcoholic beverages don’t always fit into neat, distinct categories”
Ancient alcoholic beverages don’t always fit into neat, distinct categories. Chemical evidence of ancient...
“Jewish security in America is strong, and is likely to remain so…”
America in 2016 is a country in which we make a distinction between whatever...
“Aish dispels the myth that being Orthodox means you cannot maintain some level of modernity in syntax”
Aish dispels the myth that being Orthodox means you cannot maintain some level of...
“These questions are at the heart of a data-driven, performance-based culture, one that is only beginning to permeate Jewish life”
“How are we doing?” and “How can we do better?” These questions are at...