March 18, 2025

PODCAST: Religious Zionism’s Triple Cord

In this episode of the Tradition Podcast, our associate editor Yitzchak Blau interviews author, researcher, and Makor Rishon columnist Yair Sheleg about his recent Hebrew book “HaHut HaMeshulash,” whose English title might be offered as “The Triple Chord: A Short History of Religious Zionism.” Rav Kook believed that Religious Zionism combines elements of religion, nationalism, and liberalism. Sheleg asks if contemporary Religious Zionism has remained loyal to this triple mission. If not, why not—and where has it fallen short? 
March 13, 2025

Unpacking the Iggerot: Pink Pistols and Pikuah Nefesh

From life-threatening scenarios to light-hearted Purim revelry, pinning down the precise parameters of the Biblical injunction against cross-dressing can be a tricky one. And whether it be in the American workplace or the Israeli frontiers, Moshe Kurtz has catalogued R. Moshe Feinstein’s array of rulings that have formed our understanding of this enigmatic halakha.
March 12, 2025

Haman’s Last Will and Testament

An early 18th-century Purim parody imagines Haman rotting in a jail cell, awaiting his execution, dictating his last will and testament to his ten beloved sons. Jeremy Brown surfaces this obscure text, and asks what its meaning might have been when composed in Livorno by David Polido, and what message it may contain for contemporary American Jewry.
March 10, 2025

RESPONSE: Rav Hirsch and Jewish Distinctiveness

What did R. Samson Raphael Hirsch think of Jewish distinctiveness? Did he believe there is a distinctive biological propensity for superior spiritual potential? Moshe Y. Miller, in responding to a recent review of his new book on Hirsch’s religious universalism, does some explaining.
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