December 1, 2024
It is too soon to say what the form and content of that new wave of creativity we anticipate will arrive when our current struggle in Israel ends. Yet, even at this early date, we have begun to witness the emergence of creative responses to the events of Simchat Torah 2023 and its long aftermath. Jeffrey Saks introduces a special series: This week TraditionOnline runs excerpts from three new works composed in response to our current traumatic moment.
November 28, 2024
What happens when halakha and kabbala clash? Moshe Kurtz explores how R. Moshe Feinstein either valued or objected to the incorporation of mystical and hasidic concepts into normative halakhic practice.
November 26, 2024
Responding to a recent column in Moshe Kurtz’s “Unpacking the Iggerot” series, Yitzchak Blau draws our attention to a difference of tone and orientation between rabbis Moshe Feinstein and Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg concerning celebrating a Bat Mitzva and the induction of young women into serious and mature Jewish life and learning.
November 24, 2024
Adam Kirsch’s “On Settler Colonialism” (W.W. Norton) aims to explain the rise and appeal of a flawed academic theory, its fixation with Israel, and why it must ultimately fail. Sruli Fruchter reviews…
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