January 27, 2025

New & Upcoming in TRADITION

TRADITION’s Winter 2025 is here. Preview its contents, access select open-access items, and sample our new feature: Article abstracts for the entire issue. Also: Highlights from upcoming issues and our Summit issue on materialism as a free e-book.
January 23, 2025

TRADITION Questions: The Volume of Jewish Life

A new party favor has begun to make regular appearances at weddings and other smachot—ear plugs. Chaim Strauchler asks what these small pieces of polyurethane say about risk-taking and public health in a halakhic community.
January 21, 2025

Alt+SHIFT: R. Druckman’s Moderation

R. Haim Druckman’s “Be-Hayyil uve-Ru’ah” covers a wide range of military-related issues. The book is noteworthy because the author (one of the leading voices in Israeli Religious Zionism before his death in 2022) cannot be easily categorized as a hawk or dove. Yitzchak Blau returns for a supplemental entry in the Alt+SHIFT series.   
January 19, 2025

Vaxxers & Anti-Vaxxers

As we approach the five-year mark since the initial COVID lockdown, TRADITION has published Rav J. David Bleich’s essay on “Vaxxers and Anti-Vaxxers” in his “Survey of Recent Halakhic Literature” column (available open access for a limited time at TraditionOnline.org).