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The Torah Will Never Change

How can Torah be eternal in a world of sovereignty, science, and modern politics? David Curwin contrasts two Religious Zionist readings of Maimonides’ ninth principle—by R. Joseph B. Soloveitchik and R. Chaim Hirschensohn—showing how one warns against concession to modernity, while the other warns against rigidity, and how each frames the challenge of halakhic continuity today.

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Unpacking the Iggerot: How Can We Celebrate?

In the aftermath of the final Israeli hostage being recovered, Moshe Kurtz shares a brief reflection based on how R. Moshe Feinstein addressed a hostage crisis from the 20th century.

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PODCAST: New/Old American-Jewish Realities

As the rules-based world order erodes, Chaim Strauchler’s recent essay “New/Old American-Jewish Realities” asks what happens when those norms begin to fray, and suggests that antisemitism is not a bug but a feature of unrestrained power. He joins the Podcast to discuss the essay and some of the response it’s been garnering.

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PODCAST: A Jewish Philosophy of Man (E3): Three Approaches to Man

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REVIEW: A Woman is Responsible for Everything

Ilana Kurshan reviews “A Woman is Responsible for Everything” by Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach (Princeton University Press)—a groundbreaking study of Jewish women in early modern Europe drawing on rich archival records and material culture. It reveals women as communal leaders, cultural producers, and religious actors long hidden in plain sight, and shows how literacy, print, and daily practice reshaped Jewish life from the inside out.

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New/Old American-Jewish Realities

As the rules-based world order erodes, Chaim Strauchler argues that antisemitism is not a malfunction but a feature of unrestrained power. Reassessing R. Moshe Feinstein’s vision of America as a “nation of hesed,” he contends that Judaism has always prepared for moral loneliness—surviving not through kindness of strangers, but through internal discipline, law, and covenantal courage.

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The BEST: The Office

In this week’s The BEST, David Curwin reads the TV show “The Office” as a moral critique of good intentions corrupted by self-regard. Through Michael Scott, Torah narratives, and halakhic sources, Curwin explores “cringe” as ethical discomfort, insisting that responsibility lies in choice, not accidental outcomes.

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PODCAST: A Jewish Philosophy of Man (E2): Methodology for a Jewish Religious Anthropology, from Metaphysical to Practical

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