October 16, 2025

Unpacking the Iggerot: Deleting the Divine

There is a fairly self-understood principle in halakha that it is forbidden to erase the Holy Name of God. What then are the implications for recordings found on our phones and laptops? With this new season on “Unpacking the Iggerot” Moshe Kurtz shows us how R. Moshe Feinstein addressed questions that emerged with new technologies.
October 6, 2025

Temporality and Freedom

The Sukka is a structure that turns a fleeting dream into a physical structure—giving it a chance for permanence once its fleeting time has passed. Avraham Stav recalls the early days of the war, two years ago, with their sleepless nights on flimsy army cots and in temporary mud dugouts, and the experience and potential of our own Sukkot.
October 5, 2025

PODCAST: Children of the Book

In this episode of the TRADITION Podcast, Ilana Kurshan and Sarah Rindner Blum discuss how the time spent reading books with our children can yield profound intellectual and spiritual insights, not to mention deeper and more enjoyable relationships. Kurshan’s new book, “Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together,” explores the ways in which reading books and learning Torah in the context of family life can be uplifting and transformative.
September 30, 2025

The Yom Kippur War – Past as Prologue

Two years ago TRADITION produced a special volume timed with the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. At the time it seemed like nearly ancient history. Little did we know that past was merely prologue, and that shortly after the issue was released we were once again thrown into a traumatic war, similarly launched by sneak attack on an Autumn Yom Tov. Now, after nearly two years of war and ongoing anxiety for our soldiers and those held in captivity, in the hope that our readers will find it meaningful at this troubling, tragic time in Israel, TRADITION has made the content of our entire “Yom Kippur War After 50 Years” symposium issue (Summer 2023) open access as a digital book.