July 23, 2025

Special Issue: Rabbi Sacks’ Intellectual Legacy

With the goal of honoring and exploring the intellectual contributions of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks zt”l, TRADITION  will publish a special book-length issue containing essays by rabbinic, educational, and thought leaders in our community from the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom, and around the world. Join your name to this tribute with a sponsorship donation.
July 22, 2025

Summer Issue Arrives

TRADITION’s Summer issue is making its way to subscribers’ mailboxes and is available online. Highlights include Noah Cheses on the challenges of delivering bad news; Tamar Weissman on the power of place in the Book of Judges; Jason Weiner on anti-aging interventions in Jewish law and thought; book reviews on Hungarian Orthodoxy, halakha and mental health, C.S. Lewis and the Jews, and more.
July 20, 2025

Darshanut Meets Lomdus

As a self-proclaimed “unrepentant darshan,” R. Norman Lamm was renowned for his ability to illuminate our understanding of philosophy, human psychology, and religious experience in memorable and masterful prose. Through the prism of the newly published “Al Ha-Rishonim ve-al Ha-Aharonim” (Kodesh Press), Yona Reiss highlights R. Lamm’s contributions to classical Lomdus.
July 17, 2025

Alt+SHIFT: Overweight

Israeli poet Bacol Serlui’s collection of autobiographical essays is a wide-ranging account touching on weight struggles, the author’s religious journey, female patients and male doctors, contemporary discourse about tzeniut, growing up as the child of divorced parents, and balancing time between domestic responsibilities with professional aspirations. Yitzchak Blau’s “Alt+SHIFT” reviews how the author's important insights in these disparate fields and how they play themselves out in Israeli Religious Zionist life.