December 2, 2025
Published by Jeffrey Saks at December 2, 2025
What was life like for little Dina in the household of Jacob? What exactly was she seeking when she embarked on her excursion? What actually happened to Dina that day? After Dina was saved, what happened to her? Dan Jacobson considers these questions in offering a new understanding of the Dina story which sheds light not only on the Biblical text but also on the experience of sexual abuse victims through the ages.
December 1, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at December 1, 2025
Jonathan Ziring responds to recent TRADITION essays by Jason Weiner and Shlomo Zuckier on a Jewish approach to anti-aging interventions. Using R. Soloveitchik’s call for an “Article of Faith” for how halakha responds to new social and scientific frameworks, Ziring shares how these essays played into his own teaching.
November 30, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at November 30, 2025
TRADITION’s seasonal roundup of noteworthy new titles in Jewish studies and learning, with offerings on a range of Biblical books, American Modern Orthodoxy on Aliya, libraries and Jewish printing, Rav Kook in translation, engaging dispute, and more…
November 26, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at November 26, 2025
What did the All-American rabbi think of one of the most iconic American holidays? Moshe Kurtz explains that it depends on which of R. Moshe Feinstein’s several responsa one is looking at. Unpack the Thanksgiving Iggerot Moshe….
November 23, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at November 23, 2025
TRADITION is delighted to share this recording of a talk by Dr. Erica Brown delivered through Yeshiva University’s Sacks-Herenstein Center for Values and Leadership, commemorating the recent 5th yahrzeit of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. Brown speaks about her contribution to TRADITION’s special issue on the Intellectual Legacy of Rabbi Sacks, titled “Staying Alive: The Dangers of Leadership.”
November 20, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at November 20, 2025
“Kuma” is a breathtaking, nearly ten-foot illustrated scroll by the late Staff Sgt. Eitan Rosenzweig, who created it when he was nineteen years old. The artwork, on display in the Bible Lands Museum, weaves together Jungian theories of the unconscious, the mythologist Joseph Campbell’s concept of the heroic journey, and imagery drawn from Western art and Jewish history. Sarah Rindner Blum, says it is a work of art that one must study rather than merely observe.
November 16, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at November 16, 2025
R. Jonathan Sacks believed that, out of the science of positive psychology, and in conversation with cognitive behavioral therapy, a new Musar movement could be established. In this episode of the Tradition Podcast, Tamra Wright and Mordechai Schiffman begin to unpack what this might mean in light of their co-authored essay “Radical Resilience: Hope, Agency and Community,” from TRADITION’s recent special issue on the intellectual legacy of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. They are joined for the conversation by that volume’s co-editor, Samuel Lebens.
November 13, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at November 13, 2025
Who has ownership over this “Unpacking the Iggerot” series – Rabbi Moshe Feinstein or Rabbi Moshe Kurtz (or perhaps TRADITION)? Perhaps none of the above! Is there even such a concept as ownership over Torah or other forms of intellectual property?
November 12, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at November 12, 2025
As part of the Tradition Today Summit we hosted a community wide public Keynote Address by Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter on “Historical Realities and Educational Methodologies: Then and Now.” This was the capstone to a daylong closed conference exploring “Educating Our Children to Be Ovdei Hashem in a Modern World: Challenges and Opportunities.” Watch or listen now….