January 6, 2022

Great Books and “The BEST” Books

There’s an interesting debate raging through the imperiled halls of the Ivy League’s humanities departments -- and it has special meaning for Modern Orthodoxy as a religious community that has classically valued the encounter with worldly, humanistic wisdom.  As the relationship of those two realms of wisdom, often framed around the concept of Torah u-Madda, is receiving renewed ideological and institutional reassessment, TRADITION's editor Jeffrey Saks takes note of trends in general higher education and society. This column is the first in a projected series exploring this topic and its importance in the coming months. 
January 3, 2022

Divrei Shalom e-Book

R. Shalom Carmy has been one of the most articulate and insightful voices in our community for decades and his editor’s columns in TRADITION between 2005-2019 provide an accessible window into the thought of a profound thinker. “Divrei Shalom” is now available from TRADITION as a free e-book for download.