November 10, 2024
Writing for TRADITION, Menachem Kellner recently reviewed ArtScroll’s new anthology of Maimonidean philosophy, “Kisvei HaRambam: Writings of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon,” and profiled “The Guide to the Perplexed: A New Translation” (Stanford University Press). With some critical reservations in place, in this podcast with Jeffrey Saks he applauds ArtScroll for a new openness to exposing its readers to Maimonides the philosopher, and praises the new translation of the Guide as an important corrective to earlier works that occluded the fact that “Rambam was also a rabbi”!
November 7, 2024
Chaim Strauchler questions the hermetically-sealed plastic sleeves in which hadassim and aravot are delivered. What advantages and disadvantages does pre-checking mitzvot create?
November 5, 2024
It’s hard to shed light on the circuitous debate surrounding the Haredi draft exemption, but Yosefa Fogel Wruble approaches the debate from the angle of another well-known “exemption”: that of women from many mitzvot, like Talmud Torah and certain time-caused commandments, which has contributed to an internal religious posture impacting the entirety of religious society. Can this parallel help explain Haredi society’s attitude toward draft exemption—and what might produce a shift?
November 3, 2024
You can't go home again—or can you? Tuvia Tenenbom left the insular streets of Bnei Brak for the bourgeois boulevards of Berlin. But he later decided to spend a year in Jerusalem within the cloistered and narrow alleyways of one of the city’s most reclusive Hasidic communities. Will they let him stay in their community? What will he find? Ben Rothke review’s “Careful, Beauties Ahead!,” and shares the surprises he found in its pages.
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