The Elevated Humanism of Ruth
Ruth understood that the giving of the Torah marks the transition from an animalistic existence...
Not by Heaven Alone
The Torah does not ask us to choose between Heaven and human hands. It asks...
On Apologetics: Responding to Crises in Faith
There is nothing disrespectful about engagement in religious apologetics. The question is how it's done....
The Temple Mount and Religious Division: Between Faith and Identity
The debate around the Temple Mount not religious but rather political. Charedim are puzzled why...
The Corona Prayer
The anxieties that much of the world is currently experiecing expose our diffculty in facing...
The Language of the Shofar: From Human Fracture to Divine Wholeness
To stand before God with the cry of the teruah is to acknowledge our incompleteness....
COVID-19: A View From Above
Many seek out the "correct response" to the coronavirus crisis: What does Hashem want from...
From Ecstasy to Awareness: Rethinking Religious Emotion
he role of emotion in mitzvah life is neither to dominate nor to disappear. It...
Liberalism: Its Peril and Its Deliverance
The principles of contemporary liberalism, or “progressivism,” threaten the very existence of Orthodox Judaism in...
The Contemporary Eclipse of Nusach
However inspiring, melody must not cause us to forget the nusach, and above all, the...
