September 4, 2025
In 1959, R. Moshe Feinstein issued what was among his most significant and controversial rulings: Permitting a woman to undergo artificial insemination. In this week’s “Unpacking the Iggerot” Moshe Kurtz examines the halakhic and social ramifications, as well as the rocky reception to this landmark ruling.
August 31, 2025
Sima Zalcberg-Block’s Hebrew book, “They Are Still Sitting and Sewing: The Toldot Aharon Hasidic Women” (Bialik Institute), opens a rare window into one of Israel’s most closed Hasidic sects. Through years of trust-building and fieldwork, she brings forward women’s voices long absent from scholarship—revealing resilience, meaning, and agency within strict gender roles. Menachen Keren-Kratz reviews what he call “a landmark study of faith, gender, and cultural survival.”
August 28, 2025
Itzik Crombie’s Hebrew book, “Israel’s Future with an Ultra-Orthodox Majority” (Yediot) considers that as Haredim become a larger percentage of the population, they will have to become more involved in academic studies, serving in the IDF, and leaving kollel for the company office. In his concluding Alt+SHIFT installment, Yitzchak Blau reviews Crombie’s thesis for why initiatives to advance such trends have not borne much fruit—and who ultimately bears responsivity.
August 26, 2025
Today, 3 Elul (August 27) marks the 90th yahrzeit of Rav Avraham Yitzhak HaKohen Kook zt”l. As one of the preeminent figures in Orthodox Jewish thought in the modern era, it is not surprising Rav Kook’s teachings have featured prominently as subjects of articles in the pages of TRADITION—sample them in our archive.
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