In TRADITION’s winter issue we published Barry Kislowicz’s “From Intuition to Evidence” about implementing “faith development” theory in Jewish schooling. Read the author’s exchange with a reader who asks about the role of homes and families in this challenging work.

Geula Twersky’s “Torah Song” (Kodesh Press) offers a remarkable analysis of the major poems of the Torah, and is a creative attempt to underline how the entire Torah—and particularly its poetic passages—forms an intricate network of ideas that unite the ideology of the Torah. Hayyim Angel reviews Twersky’s book, suggesting it will prompt readers to exert extra effort to fathom the divine treasures underlying biblical poetry, and to become religiously inspired through these efforts. 

The overall aim of Menachem Kellner’s “We Are Not Alone” is to articulate a universalistic interpretation of Orthodoxy which emphasizes the Torah’s explicit teaching that all human beings are created in the image of God. He finds an appreciative reader in Michael Harris who writes: “Rootedness in the particular texts and traditions of Judaism together with compassionate universalism remains an all-too-rare combination in today’s Orthodox world. This book provides strength and support for those convinced that the most noble stance for Orthodoxy is one which reaches out from a non-negotiable matrix of halakhic fidelity and proud particularity to embrace all those created in the image of God.”