September 12, 2024
Previously in "Unpacking the Iggerot" we reviewed R. Moshe Feinstein’s unequivocal objection to Kohanim attending medical school. This time around, Moshe Kurtz explores how R. Feinstein instead offers a novel leniency to enable Kohanim to fly to Israel…despite the halakhic challenges lurking beneath.
September 10, 2024
R. Soloveitchik challenged us to discover ways that a “new Jewish world view” might be formulated from the sources of halakha. In reviewing Tzvi Goldstein’s “Halakhic Worldviews” (Mosaica Press), Elisha Friedman finds an excellent template for how we might turn our attention to this daunting task.
September 8, 2024
TRADITION’s recent Summer issue contains Yitzchak Blau’s review of Gila Fine’s “The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud.” In this podcast the reviewer and the author sit down together for a conversation about the book and touch on the relationship between Biblical and Talmudic narrative and teaching values through aggada.
September 5, 2024
Chaim Strauchler examines recent administrative determinations regarding the charitable status of Jewish organizations in Canada and the US. He questions what these decisions mean to Zionism and diaspora Jewish communities.
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