June 10, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at June 10, 2021
Contemporary therapeutic wisdom about trauma offers insights to our post-COVID lives shows Noah Cheses in this week’s The BEST.
June 8, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at June 8, 2021
The “road not taken” is an engaging framing device to animate the study of intellectual history. How would our community look different today if we had elevated alternative perspectives decades ago? David Wolkenfeld considers Modern Orthodoxy’s “fork in the road” moment and the contributions and legacy of Rabbi Yitz (Iriving) Greenberg.
June 7, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at June 7, 2021
Rivkah Blau reviews a new collection of letters translated from Yiddish, which offers a view of Jewish life in 17th-century European Jewry.
June 3, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at June 3, 2021
Joe Kanofsky introduces us to the thought of Russian political philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev, who serves as a model of the flaws in constraining the sweep of Jewish history to one philosophical or theological view.
June 1, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at June 1, 2021
TRADITION’s seasonal roundup of noteworthy new Hebrew books in academic Jewish studies.
May 31, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at May 31, 2021
Shayna Goldberg’s new book offers helpful guidance for a world where decision making has become more challenging. Yitzchak Blau reviews…
May 27, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at May 27, 2021
Menachem Genack read’s Lincoln’s Second Inaugural and discovers the profundity of the President’s religious thought – this week in “The BEST.”
May 26, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at May 26, 2021
On the TRADITION Podcast Rabbanit Chana Henkin discusses the legacy of her late husband, Rav Yehuda Herzl Henkin zt”l, as a thinker and posek (shared broadcast from the 2021 RCA Convention).
May 25, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at May 25, 2021
Today marks the 200th Yahrzeit of R. Hayyim of Volozhin – learn more about him in “The Pages of TRADITION” with Prof. Shnayer Z. Leiman.