On Shabbat Noach (the Shabbat when Parshat Noah was read) I marked my 70th birthday by reciting haftarah at the Hendon ...

Welcome back to Mensch Madness! It’s already Game 5!Rabbi Moses Ben Maimo, also known as Maimonides, alias Rambam, is in the ...

This morning I was walking to work from the subway station, nose stuck in a book as usual. We are ...

Yesterday I blogged about our need, as a community, to confront the darker corners of our textual tradition. I worried ...

As I mentioned yesterday, Alvin Rosenfeld begins his essay “Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism” with several harrowing pages ...

Yesterday I posted Rabbi Avi Shafran’s response to Shmuly Yanklowitz’s response to Rabbi Shafran’s op-ed response to Yanklowitz’s organization’s response ...

The story is really incredible.

Rabbi Hayim of Brisk revolutionized Talmud study--and his method remains dominant today.

A short-lived yet influential movement.

The notion that the planets influence human affairs cuts against the core Jewish belief in free will, but many ancient rabbis believed it anyway.