July 10, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at July 10, 2025
Yitzchak Blau returns for a special summer supplement to his popular Alt+SHIFT series—with its insider’s look into trends, ideas, and writings in the Israeli Religious Zionist world helping readers from the Anglo sphere gain insight into worthwhile material available only in Hebrew. We begin with sketch comedian Yair Jacobi’s collection of humorous essays, which offer a lighthearted but insightful lens on Dati-Leumi life.
July 7, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at July 7, 2025
With the upcoming arrival of our Summer issue we are pleased to make TRADITION 57:1 (Winter 2025) fully open access. Read the whole issue online now.
July 3, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at July 3, 2025
Today we conclude TRADITION’s yearly tradition of offering up endorsements for summer reading from our editorial board and reveal the winner of our contest to predict our picks for a free subscription to our journal.
July 1, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at July 1, 2025
Today we present our second installment in TRADITION’s yearly tradition of offering up endorsements for summer reading from our editorial board.
June 29, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at June 29, 2025
TRADITION continues its yearly tradition of turning to our esteemed editorial board for endorsements for summer reading. Some of the picks could have easily been predicted, others are quite surprising, all are worthy of your attention. Read the first of three installments today on TraditionOnline.
June 26, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at June 26, 2025
An old newspaper discovered in a piano bench prompts Chaim Strauchler to open a time capsule of Orthodox American Jewish life. Read his final installment of TRADITION Questions.
June 24, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at June 24, 2025
If you were to shadow an Israeli Religious Zionist community Rabbi, what would you learn about the unique opportunities and challenges of being a religious and spiritual leader in Israel? In “Siha al ha-Sheila” (“Discussing the Question,” Maggid Books), Rabbi Ori Lifshits provides readers with a refreshingly honest depiction of his interactions with community members, along with a detailed description of how he answered the various halakhic questions that arose. Johnny Solomon reviews...
June 22, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at June 22, 2025
Yitzchak Blau’s recent review of Shai Held’s “Judaism Is About Love” (Spring 2025) gives Nathaniel Helfgot an opportunity to consider God’s attributes of jealousy and vengeance, how that can be squared with His essence as a God of mercy and compassion, and the challenge this presents us, tasked with imitating and following in His ways.
June 19, 2025
Published by Tradition Online at June 19, 2025
Can one make a siyyum on a single page from the Talmud? In our final installment of this season’s “Unpacking the Iggerot,” Moshe Kurtz analyzes R. Moshe Feinstein’s remarkably flexible approach to what can qualify for such a celebration and the values that informed his noteworthy responsum.