April 7, 2025
Any new book by Marc Shapiro naturally elicits enthusiasm, given his role as one of Jewish Studies’ most erudite scholars. His most recent offering, “Renewing the Old, Sanctifying the New: The Unique Vision of Rav Kook “ (Littman Library) demonstrates how Rav Kook’s theological vision might contribute to contemporary Jewish thought. Yoel Finkelman reviews….
April 3, 2025
With Passover around the corner our minds are on the many preparations required to join our families around the Seder Table—and yet, who can forget the events of five years ago, when so many of us were isolated, locked-down, sheltering in place during that COVID Pesach of 2020. We’re pleased to share this episode of Moshe Kurtz’s “Shu”t First, Ask Questions Later” podcast, examining the COVID Zoom Seder controversy. Kurtz is joined by Yehuda Halpert, who takes us back to the pandemic halakhic literature, identifies important topics that the Jewish world wrestled with during those unprecedented days, and shows how those questions are still resonant for Jewish practice in 2025.
April 1, 2025
On this day 100 years ago, the Hebrew University was formally inaugurated on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem. The event opened with an invocation delivered by Rav Kook. His courageous message minced no words about his true feelings regarding the Hebrew University and its place in the life of a revitalized Jewish yishuv in the Land of Israel. Revisit Shnayer Z. Leiman’s presentation of that speech in our “From the Pages of Tradition” column (Fall 1994).
March 30, 2025
The vagaries of the Jewish lunar calendar are such that erev Pesach coincides with Shabbat infrequently and with an irregular pattern. This year 5785 (2025) is one such occasion, giving rise to sundry halakhic complications. In advance of the alignment of Pesach following Shabbat in 1974 for the first time in two decades, Rabbi J. David Bleich offered guidance to our readers in his “Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature” column. Revisit the article and download his updated guide published for this year.
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