Difficulties with Rabbi Moshe Feinstein’s Reading of the Source for Synagogue Mehitzah
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein and others argue that the “great reform” made on...
“Modern Orthodox Jews care about Israel because they have a strong sense of peoplehood, and they have a strong sense of peoplehood because they care about Israel”
The Pew Portrait of Jewish Americans, the rich national data set utilized by Wertheimer,...
“The uniform of a senior officer, like the robe of a judge, is a symbol that the officer is acting on behalf of the national interest…”
…the more senior a commander, the greater the obligation to conceal his or her...
“…Jews who don’t know how to be Jewish because they lack the guidance of organized religion”
…Jews who don’t know how to be Jewish because they lack the guidance of...
“Perhaps what most strikes the naïve reader of the Book of Revelation is what a close-run thing the battle is…”
Perhaps what most strikes the naïve reader of the Book of Revelation is what...
Considering the Parable of the Traveler
According to the Torah, both the koheyn (priest) and the Levite were prohibited from...
“…the process of Talmud…can have real world value, and that, as full participants in a riven civil society, we should see it as our obligation to realize that value”
I do want to suggest that the process of Talmud, which I understand in...
Bro Comedies’ “refusal of maturity also invites some critical reflection about just what adulthood is supposed to mean”
The Updikean and Rothian heroes of the 1960s and 1970s chafed against the demands...
“Israel today is surrounded on four out of five borders…. No other country faces such a threat”
Israel today is surrounded on four out of five borders — South Lebanon, Gaza,...
“A Guide to the Complex is, therefore, such a helpful model for what Modern Orthodox halakhah can be….”
A Guide to the Complex is, therefore, such a helpful model for what Modern...