February 3, 2025
The mailbag brought Aryeh Dienstag’s response to TRADITION’s Summit issue on materialism. He points out the irony that the career choices required to provide a Jewish education may themselves engender a lifestyle that undermines the very messages we hope to communicate to our children through that education.
January 30, 2025
As a brief addendum to our previous “Unpacking the Iggerot” column on secular education, Moshe Kurtz asks what should be a simple question: Did R. Moshe Feinstein read the news? While this may sound like an inconsequential matter, it became a flashpoint for how his posterity and disciples chose to frame his legacy to the masses.
January 27, 2025
TRADITION’s Winter 2025 is here. Preview its contents, access select open-access items, and sample our new feature: Article abstracts for the entire issue. Also: Highlights from upcoming issues and our Summit issue on materialism as a free e-book.
January 23, 2025
A new party favor has begun to make regular appearances at weddings and other smachot—ear plugs. Chaim Strauchler asks what these small pieces of polyurethane say about risk-taking and public health in a halakhic community.