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Looking Backward: The Campus—Flux and Tension

Mervin F. Verbit revisits Norman Frimer’s prescient 1967 analysis of the Jewish campus experience, tracing how radical individualism, multiculturalism, and resurgent antisemitism continue to challenge Jewish identity today. Blending sociology, history, and communal insight, it asks how Jewish education can prepare students to engage the modern university without losing depth, confidence, or conviction.

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REVIEW: Malmad HaTalmidim

Hayyim Angel reviews an annotated translation of Rabbi Yaʿaqob Anatoli’s “Malmad HaTalmidim” (Da‘at Press), a key Provencal work at the heart of the Maimonidean Controversy. Through careful translation and extensive notes, the volume revives a medieval Geonic-Andalusian vision of an intense commitment to Torah enriched by philosophy, science, and disciplined intellectual inquiry.

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Unpacking the Iggerot: Aiding Agunot

After the Holocaust, thousands of women remained “chained” to vanished husbands. Moshe Kurtz explores R. Moshe Feinstein’s courageous halakhic response, using legal innovation and deep compassion to free these agunot. From post-war crises to modern prenuptial agreements, discover how the 20th century’s leading sage navigated high-stakes law to prevent personal tragedy and preserve the Jewish family.

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Moses the Independent Partner

As we begin reading the Book of Exodus our minds turn to the man Moses and his job as a prophet conveying God’s message with precision. Zvi Grumet considers how that role sometimes clashes with Moses’ position as a teacher par excellence. While Moses is identified as the greatest of prophets, the appellation ascribed to him in Rabbinic tradition is Rabbeinu, our teacher—how can these roles be reconciled?

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REVIEW: The Jewish Experience

Mark Wildes founded the Manhattan Jewish Experience as a Modern Orthodox kiruv organization. With his recent book, “The Jewish Experience” (Maggid Books) he seeks to share his approach with a new generation of rabbis and seekers. Does Wildes’ style of experiential outreach hold up after two decades? Steven Gotlib reviews the book in light of broader trends in outreach and religious apologetics.

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The BEST: Caps for Sale

Ilana Kurshan convinces us that the children’s classic “Caps for Sale” by Esphyr Slobodkina is among “The BEST”: Its message delivered at countless bedtimes resonates with our tradition from the Ben Ish Hai to the “mimetic tradition,” and reminds us that the experience of reading to our kids is a sacred mimicry of our parents having read to us, and back through the chain of mesora.

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REVIEW: The Lions of Zion

Natan Slifkin’s “The Lions of Zion,” unlike many of his earlier writings, eschews

internal Jewish polemics and aims to both show how the natural world of the Torah demonstrates the Jewish People’s connection to the Land of Israel and to refute attacks on Israel which use alleged Israeli “sins” against nature. Menachem Kellner calls it “highly engaging, often amusing, deeply interesting, and truly important.”

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Remembering Rav Henkin

This evening (9 Tevet) marks the fifth yahrzeit of R. Yehuda Herzl Henkin zt”l. Revisit content exploring his legacy published in TRADITION.