June 13, 2021

PODCAST: Eric Lawee’s “Rashi’s Commentary”

Eric Lawee and Jeffrey Saks consider how Rashi’s Torah commentary came to occupy its singular place in Jewish learning, and if it was inevitable or not – in the TRADITION Podcast.
June 10, 2021

The BEST: The Body Keeps the Score

Contemporary therapeutic wisdom about trauma offers insights to our post-COVID lives shows Noah Cheses in this week’s The BEST.
June 8, 2021

REVIEW: Greenberg’s Road Not Taken

The “road not taken” is an engaging framing device to animate the study of intellectual history. How would our community look different today if we had elevated alternative perspectives decades ago? David Wolkenfeld considers Modern Orthodoxy’s “fork in the road” moment and the contributions and legacy of Rabbi Yitz (Iriving) Greenberg.
June 7, 2021

REVIEW: Yiddish Letters

Rivkah Blau reviews a new collection of letters translated from Yiddish, which offers a view of Jewish life in 17th-century European Jewry.