Creation in a Chaotic Decade: Rabbi Lamm in the 60s
The “Between-the-Lines” Faith of Rabbi Hershel Schachter
Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein’s Novel Position on Women’s Talmud Study
How Can the Modern Orthodox Community Fulfill the Rav’s Vision for Women’s Talmud Study?
Resurrecting Moses Mendelssohn
Forty Years Later: The Rav’s Opening Shiur at the Stern College for Women Beit...
Yeshiva University President Rabbi Ari Berman’s Opening Shiur
YU President Ari Berman's opening address, comparing YU to a Sukkah! Shlomo Zuckier captures this historic moment in his notes.
A Religion Without Visual Art? The Rav and the Myth of Jewish Art
If Kant or Hegel had read Rambam or the Shulhan Arukh, they might have known that Jewish law does not actually proscribe the creation of images. But that was not the way of history. It is important to reclaim visual culture and aesthetics for religious Judaism so that beauty can be allowed to inspire halakhically bound actions, to color worship, and give meaning to our rituals.
“Turn it and Turn it, for all is in It:” Ilana Kurshan and the...
The most enjoyable feature of the book is the brilliant and creative integration of the daily Talmudic folio Kurshan studies with experiences of her life.
Rabbi Moshe Feinstein on What Makes America Great
Rav Moshe Feinstein does not praise the United States for not having fascists and communists, but for having a system of government that is particularly resistant to what came to be known as totalitarianism.