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…
November 21, 2024
To commemorate Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks’ fourth Yahrzeit, TRADITION turns its questioning gaze inward. Last year was the 50th anniversary of R. Sacks’ first major publication, “Alienation and Faith.” The essay probed a core assumption of R. Soloveitchik’s “Lonely Man of Faith”—the Jew is fated to an existence that is divided, alienated, and lonely. At the young age of 25, R. Sacks disagreed. Chaim Strauchler examines the article’s publication and reception.
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