June 27, 2021
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TRADITION continues its yearly tradition of turning to our esteemed editorial board for endorsements for summer reading. Some of the picks could easily be predicted, others are quite surprising, all are worthy of your attention. Read the first of three installments.
June 24, 2021
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Tolstoy’s challenges us to struggle against material prosperity and a save-the-world politics that has made “social progress” priests of every college graduate and pop star. Yakov Danishevky explains why Tolstoy’s “Confession is The BEST because it exposes the underbelly of high-class culture: status, self-righteousness, and dogmatism.
June 21, 2021
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Among the more bizarre (Jewish) events of our COVID days was a wedding held under a traditional bridal canopy in one of Bnai Brak’s cemeteries—a very old custom which was believed to potentially ward off the plague. Jeremy Brown explores the origins and surprising history of the unusual “Black Wedding.”
June 18, 2021
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Win a year’s subscription to TRADITION’s print journal for yourself as a new or renewing subscriber or to gift to someone else by correctly predicting as many titles due to appear on our annual editorial board Summer Book Endorsements.
June 17, 2021
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In which a book about Zen and motorcycles is less about either of those and turns out to be more of a Musar work reminding us to aim for Quality in our life and service of God. Todd Berman reads a contemporary classic in this week’s the BEST.
June 14, 2021
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Today, 4 Tammuz (June 14), marks the 850th yahrzeit of Rabbenu Tam. Pinchas Roth’s review of Rami Reiner’s new book draws our attention to important new scholarship on the interpretation, halakhic legacy, and controversies of a monumental figure whose rulings and readings continue to impact Jewish law until the present day.
June 13, 2021
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Eric Lawee and Jeffrey Saks consider how Rashi’s Torah commentary came to occupy its singular place in Jewish learning, and if it was inevitable or not – in the TRADITION Podcast.
June 10, 2021
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Contemporary therapeutic wisdom about trauma offers insights to our post-COVID lives shows Noah Cheses in this week’s The BEST.
June 8, 2021
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The “road not taken” is an engaging framing device to animate the study of intellectual history. How would our community look different today if we had elevated alternative perspectives decades ago? David Wolkenfeld considers Modern Orthodoxy’s “fork in the road” moment and the contributions and legacy of Rabbi Yitz (Iriving) Greenberg.