November 16, 2021

The Sexual Abuse of Dina

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. 
November 14, 2021

PODCAST: Rabbi Lamm and the Spirit of the Rabbinate

The TRADITION Podcast explores Rabbi Norman Lamm’s energetic rabbinic leadership and his message and challenge to his rabbinic colleagues and students. Guests R. Menachem Penner and R. Benjamin Samuels chat with our editor R. Jeffrey Saks about their contributions to the recent “Rabbi Lamm Memorial Volume.”
November 11, 2021

The BEST: Survival in Auschwitz

In which “Squid Game” reminds our editor, Jeffrey Saks, of a more worthy exploration of how shockingly easily humanity can become degraded – Primo Levi’s remarkable work of incredible moral power, “Survival in Auschwitz,” in this week’s “The BEST.”
November 9, 2021

TRADITION Fall 2021

TRADITION is pleased to release our Fall 2021 issue (53:4)  – highlights include R. Zalman Nechemiah Goldberg zt”l in “Praise of Peshara”; Menachem Kellner reexamines the perils of laying claim to the Maimondean legacy; Chaim Saiman reviews new works on halakha and the Jewish State; Daniel Gordis on why nostalgia isn’t enough, and more. 
November 7, 2021

PODCAST: Family and Morality in Turbulent Times

In this episode of the TRADITION Podcast our editor R. Jeffrey Saks speaks with Rachelle Sprecher Fraenkel about her contribution to our “Rabbi Norman Lamm memorial Volume” in which she assessed his writing, preaching, and teaching on the role of “Family and Morality in Turbulent Times.”
November 4, 2021

Reviewing Book Reviews

Revisit the many book reviews published in TRADITION and on TraditionOnline in the last half-year…
November 2, 2021

Reishit Tzemihat Ge’ulatanu: Then and Now

In our Rabbi Lamm Memorial Volume, Ari Berman revisited a 1973 public dialogue between R. Lamm and R. Shubert Spero about the messianic aspects of Zionism and the State of Israel. A near half-century on R. Spero is still thinking about these issues…
October 31, 2021

PODCAST: The Unrepentant Darshan

In this episode of the TRADITION Podcast our editor R. Jeffrey Saks speaks with Dr. Erica Brown and Prof. Ari Goldman about their contributions to the “Rabbi Norman Lamm Memorial Volume.” They each wrote about aspects of Rabbi Lamm’s written record as a self-styled “unrepentant darshan” one of the Jewish 20th century’s peerless rhetoricians, who turned the synagogue sermon into an art form and used the power of the pulpit to commutate an array of messages and educate his flock in a most impactful way. 
October 28, 2021

The BEST: The Screwtape Letters 

By turning vice on its head, C.S. Lewis’ brilliant satire, “The Screwtape Letters,” serves as an enduring guide to attaining virtue, explains Yakov S. Weinstein in this week’s “The BEST.”