Today we present our second installment in TRADITION’s yearly tradition of offering up endorsements for summer reading from our editorial board.

TRADITION continues its yearly tradition of turning to our esteemed editorial board for endorsements for summer reading. Some of the picks could have easily been predicted, others are quite surprising, all are worthy of your attention. Read the first of three installments today on TraditionOnline.

Yitzchak Blau’s recent review of Shai Held’s “Judaism Is About Love” (Spring 2025) gives Nathaniel Helfgot an opportunity to consider God’s attributes of jealousy and vengeance, how that can be squared with His essence as a God of mercy and compassion, and the challenge this presents us, tasked with imitating and following in His ways.