“You may already be the winner of one million dollars!” In this week’s TRADITION Questions, Chaim Strauchler explains how your ability to determine the spending of 1 billion dollars differs from the old Publisher Clearing House Sweepstakes. He finds meaning in what this odd election for the World Zionist Congress says about the history of Zionism and modern Jewish identity.

With Purim a week away, Chaim Strauchler questions the number of weak-ties in our Jewish communities and what they say about Purims past and future.

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?

AI tempts everyone, from the 6th grader facing a book report deadline to a Rabbi needing to prepare for Shabbat HaGadol. The promise of an easy shortcut is hard to resist. Josh Flug, in a guest installment of TRADITION Questions, considers the costs—in integrity, in the final product, and the damage done to “amelut” as a Jewish value.