May 16, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at May 16, 2021
Join us for a program in memory of TRADITION’s founding editor, Rabbi Norman lamm z”l, on his first yahrzeit.
May 13, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at May 13, 2021
In “The BEST” Asher Oser reads Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” and considers points of contrast with Megillat Ruth’s depiction of marriage and relationships built on trust and kindness.
May 10, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at May 10, 2021
Aton M. Holzer carefully reads the Shavuot hymn Akdamut and discovers a great deal about the intellectual life, thought, influences, polemics, spoken language, and Jewish life in Ashkenaz before the First Crusade.
May 6, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at May 6, 2021
Suzanne Socken considers Thorton Wilder’s classic play “Our Town” as a musar text in this week’s installment of “The BEST”
May 3, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at May 3, 2021
Starting to think about the upcoming Shemitta, and timed with this week’s Parashat Behar, dive into related articles in the TRADITION Archives…
April 29, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at April 29, 2021
TRADITION’s esteemed editor emeritus Shalom Carmy returns with an entry on Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” – this week in The BEST.
April 27, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at April 27, 2021
Read Rabbi Michael Rosensweig’s new essay at TRADITION, "Reflections on Racism and Social Divisiveness," in which he urges us to be worthy of the legacy of Abraham.
April 25, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at April 25, 2021
Yaakov Bieler reads “Morality,” the final book published by R. Jonathan Sacks z”l in his lifetime, and considers its message for the wide world and its potential usefulness for Jewish education.
April 22, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at April 22, 2021
Writing for The Best, Elie Weissman reviews "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," the John Wayne and Jimmy Stewart western classic, as a Zionist allegory.