January 15, 2023

New and Noteworthy Books

TRADITION’s seasonal roundup of noteworthy new titles in Jewish studies and learning, with offerings on the case for Orthodoxy, the philosophy of the Siddur and of the Shalosh Regalim, 13th-century Jewish moral lessons, and more.
January 12, 2023

Alt+SHIFT: Striking Roots

In this week’s Alt+SHIFT, “translating” trends in Israeli intellectual life from right to left, Yitzchak Blau presents ideas from Chaim Navon’s Jewish critique of postmodernism’s most deleterious effects of civilization. We each choose our own destiny, but we attempt to abandon our “communities of fate” at our own peril.
January 8, 2023

Lonely Man and ChatGPT

Can artificial intelligence generate an interpretation of “The Lonely Man of Faith”? Can it do so as a rap battle? Do we want it to? Ned Krasnopolsky consulted with the oracle of ChatGPT. Read his results.
January 5, 2023

Alt+SHIFT: R. Tau and the Culture Wars

Continuing his discussion of the Hardal world, Yitzchak Blau’s newest installment of Alt+SHIFT profiles some of the writings of R. Tzvi Tau. Blau calls out a worldview that sees all ideological opponents as sinister people without redeeming qualities attempting to destroy Jewish values.