July 31, 2025
The revolution in Tanakh study in the Religious Zionist world impacted both quantity and quality as yeshiva schedules started to include more Bible study while employing new methods of interpretation. Herzog College’s journal, Megadim, recently published a festschrift in honor of R. Yoel Bin-Nin, one of the central figures behind these trends. Yitzchak Blau’s Alt+SHIFT surveys the collection.
July 28, 2025
Before October 7, 2023, conventional thinking was that Israel had abandoned its pioneering ethos of self-sacrifice on behalf of the larger community—just another victim of rising affluence and liberal, Western individualism. Moshe Weinstock charts the return of repressed values of collective responsibility, which have lain dormant as part of a national, Jewish “deep consciousness,” now awoken during these many long months of war.
July 27, 2025
Jerusalem is described in Eikha as a lonely city. In advance of Tisha B’Av, Erica Brown examines the theme of loneliness in the book’s first chapter set against the pandemic of loneliness researchers decry today and questions if “the lonely city” metaphor is useful of debilitating in describing Israel’s current alienation.
July 24, 2025
R. Uri Brilliant’s “Torah Hayyim Sheli” adds novelty to Torah commentary through connecting the ideas in the weekly parasha to episodes in the author’s life. Yitzchak Blau’s “Alt+SHIFT” shows how Brilliant’s stories and the Torah insights prove worthwhile. The tales draw on Brilliant’s own life story and episodes from the lives of others; his analysis of each parasha divides between commentary on the text and a deep analysis of the reasons for commandments.
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