November 4, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at November 4, 2021
Revisit the many book reviews published in TRADITION and on TraditionOnline in the last half-year…
November 2, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at November 2, 2021
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
Published by Tradition Online at October 31, 2021
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
Published by Tradition Online at October 28, 2021
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.”
October 26, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at October 26, 2021
Tomorrow, October 27, marks the third anniversary of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, which claimed the lives of 11 shulgoers. Sarah Rudolph remembers and reads “Bound in the Bond of Life” – a collection of essays by Pittsburgh writers on the tragedy which resonates with the “recurring theme of connection its most powerful element – connections between people, between ideas, within and between varying beliefs and worldviews, between experiences.”
October 25, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at October 25, 2021
As we mark the first yahrzeit of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l, celebrate his legacy by revisiting some of the special content TRADITION has produced this year, and read some of R. Sacks’ own contributions to our pages.
October 21, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at October 21, 2021
Can lessons from war be drawn to religious life? Chaim Strauchler connects the counter-intuitive wisdom of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" to Pirkei Avot and beyond in this week's “The BEST.”
October 18, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at October 18, 2021
In our desire to assess the rich legacy of Rabbi Norman Lamm, TRADITION assembled a special memorial volume. The 35 essays consider the monumental record of R. Lamm’s writings in fields as varied as the man himself. Read the editor's introduction by Jeffrey Saks.
October 14, 2021
Published by Tradition Online at October 14, 2021
What lessons does Billy Joel’s song “Vienna” hold for our thinking about pursuing excellence in all realms? Isaac Selter hears in the song a teaching about balancing striving for dreams and aspirations along with trust in Divine help in this week’s “The BEST.”