Welcome to the archives of the Tradition journal, which houses the over 2,000 (and growing) items we have published since 1958. The listing below shows the complete archives in reverse chronological order, from the most recent issue. Use the search tools to the left for any text search across the Tradition archives. For a specific Issue, Author, or Tag choose from the related drop-down list. Use the “Sort By” tool to sort your results.
We are currently working on organizing and updating the archives. Please contact us if you are having trouble locating a specific item. Click here for a directory of our special themed issues and symposia published over the years. Click here for the index of vols. 1-10 (1958-1969) prepared by Micha Falk Oppenheim in 1970.
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Most Recent
A Narrow Bridge: Rabbi Nahman of Breslov’s Faith in a World of Doubt
Fall 2023 Issue 55.4
Finding Philo: Rabbi David Provençal’s Invention of Rebbe Yedidya
Fall 2023 Issue 55.4
In Praise of Esau: Between Rashi’s Commentaries to the Torah and Nakh
Fall 2023 Issue 55.4
Protestant Rabbi: The Conversion of Judah Monis in Colonial Massachusetts
Fall 2023 Issue 55.4
Horton Hatches the Egg, Who Raises the Chick?: Maternal Identity, Custody, and the Israeli Courts
Fall 2023 Issue 55.4
SOURCES & RESOURCES: Psalm 139: When God’s Presence Both Overwhelms and Eludes
Fall 2023 Issue 55.4
REVIEW ESSAY: Of Making Many Books: New Works on Ecclesiastes
Fall 2023 Issue 55.4
Fall 2023 Issue 55.4
BOOK REVIEW: Adam Mintz, Building Communities: A History of the Eruv in America
Fall 2023 Issue 55.4
FIELD NOTES: Tradition Today Summit: Material Success and Its Challenges
Fall 2023 Issue 55.4
🔓The Yom Kippur War After 50 Years
Summer 2023 Issue 55.3
Symposium: The Sea Change in American Orthodox Judaism
Summer 1998 Issue 32.4
🔓Towards the Meaning of the Yom Kippur War
Summer 2023 Issue 55.3
🔓Faith, Responsibility, and Suffering: Rav Amital’s Response to the Yom Kippur War
Summer 2023 Issue 55.3
🔓God Hidden in Heaven’s Vaults
Summer 2023 Issue 55.3
Point-Blank Prayer: On Haim Sabato’s Adjusting Sights
Summer 2023 Issue 55.3
🔓A Torah of Trauma: Rav Shagar and the Yom Kippur War
Summer 2023 Issue 55.3
🔓Hebrew Poetry, Prayer, and Translation: Naomi Shemer’s Songs of the Yom Kippur War
Summer 2023 Issue 55.3
🔓Rabbi Lamm’s Resilient Response to the Yom Kippur War
Summer 2023 Issue 55.3
🔓The Yom Kippur War and the Religious Zionist Community in Israel
Summer 2023 Issue 55.3