Simcha Fishbane’s new book sets out to understand how Hayei Adam went from being a widely popular halakhic work among laymen, although largely ignored by the rabbinic establishment of its day, to a paradoxical mirror status in our own. Gidon Rothstein reviews…

Surveying the mid-twentieth century American Jewish community from his pulpit, R. Norman Lamm mined the Passover story for two purposes – to make the case for royal humility, a constant vacillation between the confidence of freedom and the modesty of servitude, and as a call for a renewed and passionate Jewish observance. Stuart W. Halpern examines these themes as reflected in R. Lamm’s “The Royal Table.”