March 3, 2025
Mali Brofsky and Mark Smilowitz discuss the central thesis of his recent essay, “Esther and the Spies: A Bible-Based Symbolic Meaning of Walled Cities from the Time of Joshua” (Fall 2024). The two explore its timely Purim message and its claims regarding faith and meaning, and how it can serve as a source of support during the great challenges facing us today.
February 27, 2025
R. Feinstein issued a surprising series of lenient rulings vis-a-vis the question of smoking. Moshe Kurtz, in this week’s edition of Unpacking the Iggerot, asks: What would he say today? The answer is not as clear as some might think.
February 24, 2025
In advance of the arrival of the month of Adar (and a week ahead of our reading of Parashat Shekalim), Chaim Strauchler questions what we choose to count in Jewish communal life. How does “modern” Jewish counting bias communal life? Does it cause us to fail to see those who do not fit traditional family models?
February 20, 2025
Jeffrey Saks uses the Editor’s Note to share some memories of Rav Elazar Meir Teitz zt”l, his warmth and humor, adding some color to the very many well-deserved tributes that properly praised his rabbinic leadership and phenomenal legacy as a manhig, talmid hakham, and posek.
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