April 25, 2024
As we mark the Rav's yahrzeit on 18 Nissan (Friday, April 26) we revisit last year's special issue marking his 120th birthday and 30th year since his passing. With the goal of honoring Rabbi Soloveitchik's myriad contributions to the spiritual and intellectual life of our community and the Jewish world, last year TRADITION released as a special 230-page exploring his legacy. The issue, edited by Jeffrey Saks, containing essays by leading figures in the world of Jewish life and ideas, focuses on the wide-ranging areas of R. Soloveitchik's writing, assessing his lasting contributions to Jewish thought through the prism of his prolific works. The full issue is available online or order your print copy now. Contributing authors: Mali Brofsky, Shalom Carmy, Zev Eleff, Yocheved Friedman, Nathaniel Helfgot, Yaakov Jaffe, Tovah Lichtenstein, Levi Morrow, Mark Smilowitz, Alex Sztuden, and Shlomo Zuckier.
April 18, 2024
In our next installment of “Unpacking the Iggerot,” Moshe Kurtz investigates how R. Feinstein adjudicated a contentious dispute over a breakaway minyan, and what it means for the broader topics of economic competition, employment rights, and rabbinic authority.
April 15, 2024
Following Emancipation in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when large numbers of Jews were conscripted into European armies, traditionalist segments perceived army service as a calamity. As demonstrated by Prof. Judith Bleich in an essay from the TRADITION Archives, extreme prejudice and antisemitism persisted in the armed forces and the promise of equality remained an illusion. However, she suggests, casting contemporary military service in the Israeli Army in terms that smack of the Czar’s Army and the cantonist system, especially at a time such as this, completely misses the point.
April 11, 2024
Judaism’s prominence in modern society as well as new communication technologies create opportunities for those outside Judaism to see what goes on inside. This is both an opportunity and a risk. Chaim Strauchler questions whether this reality requires change in how and what we communicate.
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