August 26, 2024

PODCAST: “Bittersweet” with Susan Cain

In reviewing Susan Cain’s “Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole” (Crown) for this summer’s TRADITION Book Endorsements, Mail Brofsky drew lessons, strength, and encouragement following the events of Simchat Torah and throughout this year’s long war. In this podcast Cain joins Brofsky to discuss her #1 NY Times bestseller (and Oprah pick), and explore its message for our religious community.
August 22, 2024

TRADITION Questions: Parenthood, Happiness & Meaning

During this difficult year we have thought often of Israel as a distinct land and people. While much media focuses negative attention on this exceptionalism, Chaim Strauchler points to some recent studies to suggest that Israel possesses a motivating story through which its citizens find meaning and happiness, and that other societies might learn from its example.
August 21, 2024

The Sound of Sinai

To commemorate today's fourth yahrzeit of Rav Steinsaltz zt”l TRADITION republishes these tributes penned by Rabbi David Rozenson and Prof. David Berger. How did R. Steinsaltz, one of the most prolific and preeminent rabbis of our generation, come to play a key role in the revitalization of Soviet Jewry in Gorbachev's Russia? The true background to this part of his life, and his involvement in the astonishing Jewish renaissance behind the Iron Curtain, is little-known and has been under-reported.
August 20, 2024

LETTER: Giving ArtScroll Its Due

Menachem Kellner’s recent review of books on Rambam’s philosophical works first emerging from within the right-wing and Haredi publishing houses raised a variety of issues concerning examining those works from outside the academic interpretations to which they have been subject. Yaakov Blau offers a “dispassionate critique” of Kellner and defends the methods and accomplishments of ArtScroll. 
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