“Should the menstrual prohibition be kept literally by Christians?”
Should the menstrual prohibition be kept literally by Christians? Medieval Christian authors often argued...
“In reproducing itself, Orthodoxy evolved many cells, defined by varying behaviors and ideologies”
In reproducing itself, Orthodoxy evolved many cells, defined by varying behaviors and ideologies. Wertheimer...
“…when you have made up your mind to believe that your rabbi is God, neither death nor disappearance will discourage you”
Apparently, when you have made up your mind to believe that your rabbi is...
Artscroll and Reuben laying with Bilhah
Genesis 35:22 states that “Reuben lay with Bilhah.” The Artscroll multi-volume commentary on Bereshit...
“The Gaza war presents Jewish schools with a teachable moment, a time to explore with their students…the asymmetrical struggle in which Israel is engaged and the surge in hatred confronting Jews…in many parts of the world”
As they formulate a school response to the war, educators might consider three important...
“Courtesy is dead. The plane is its graveyard…”
There’s little sense of a common good, no rules that everybody follows so that...
“The catalyst for pro football’s breakthrough in the latter half of the 1950s and 1960s was the new medium of television”
The catalyst for pro football’s breakthrough in the latter half of the 1950s and...
“Thanksgiving is a much needed model for an increasingly secular American Jewry”
Thanksgiving is a much needed model for an increasingly secular American Jewry. Where “cultural...
“One way or another, the Frankfurt School mode of criticism—its skeptical ardor, its relentless scouring of mundane surfaces—has spread far…”
“. When online recappers expend thousands of words debating the depiction of rape on...
“Modern Orthodoxy needs intellectual vibrancy in order to flourish…”
Who in the Orthodox community is engaging in original Jewish thought? While Christians have...