• Sort by ...

  • Search by Title

  • Issue

  • Author

  • Posts Per Page

  • Reset filter

TraditionOnline In: Tradition Online

An End to this Year’s Curses

As we approach Simhat Torah and one turn around the calendar since last year’s trauma, how should we adjust our upcoming prayers and celebrations? Avraham Stav considers what it means to cycle through the familiarity of the Jewish year and its holidays when even the familiar returns to us with alienation.

TraditionOnline In: Tradition Online

PODCAST: The Ideology of Hesder Revisited

TRADITION and the Rabbinical Council of America recently hosted R. Mosheh Lichtenstein, Rosh Yeshivat Har Etzion, for a conversation revisiting a classic essay from our archives: R. Aharon Lichtenstein zt”l, “The Ideology of Hesder” (Fall 1981), using it as a lens to explore contemporary issues in Israeli religious and civilian life and society and the particular challenges of the current war. Listen to a recording of the conversation on the Tradition Podcast.

TraditionOnline In: Tradition Online

REVIEW: Books on Repentance

With the arrival of Elul, Yitzchak Blau focuses our attention on two noteworthy new works on repentance: R. Michael Rosensweig “Mimini Mikhael” and R. Aharon Lichtenstein’s “Return and Renewal.”  By bringing these volumes into conversation with each other he highlights one strong parallel and a number of intriguing contrasts between the works and their authors, offering us insights to the spiritual challenges that lie ahead for us all in the coming month.

TraditionOnline In: Tradition Online

Unpacking the Iggerot: Pure Passengers & Complicated Cargo

Previously in “Unpacking the Iggerot” we reviewed R. Moshe Feinstein’s unequivocal objection to Kohanim attending medical school. This time around, Moshe Kurtz explores how R. Feinstein instead offers a novel leniency to enable Kohanim to fly to Israel…despite the halakhic challenges lurking beneath.

TraditionOnline In: Tradition Online

REVIEW: Halachic Worldviews

R. Soloveitchik challenged us to discover ways that a “new Jewish world view” might be formulated from the sources of halakha. In reviewing Tzvi Goldstein’s “Halakhic Worldviews” (Mosaica Press), Elisha Friedman finds an excellent template for how we might turn our attention to this daunting task.

TraditionOnline In: Tradition Online

PODCAST: The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic

TRADITION’s recent Summer issue contains Yitzchak Blau’s review of Gila Fine’s “The Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic: Rereading the Women of the Talmud.” In this podcast the reviewer and the author sit down together for a conversation about the book and touch on the relationship between Biblical and Talmudic narrative and teaching values through aggada.

TraditionOnline In: Tradition Online

TRADITION Questions: Tax Battles and Defending Zionism

Chaim Strauchler examines recent administrative determinations regarding the charitable status of Jewish organizations in Canada and the US. He questions what these decisions mean to Zionism and diaspora Jewish communities.

TraditionOnline In: Tradition Online

ONLINE EVENT: The Ideology of Hesder Revisited

Join TRADITION and the Rabbinical Council of America for an online Zoom conversation with R. Mosheh Lichtenstein, Rosh Yeshivat Har Etzion, revisiting a classic essay from our archives: R. Aharon Lichtenstein’s “The Ideology of Hesder,” using it as a lens to explore contemporary issues in Israeli religious and civilian life and society, and the particular challenges of the current war. Sunday, September 15 on Zoom (registration at link).