Festival of Freedom: On Liberty and Duty
Seder Night presents us with something of a contradiction. On the one hand, we vividly...
The (Painful) Path to the State
The COVID-19 crisis demonstrates that there we cannot avoid Charedi integration into the state. But...
The Biblical Imperative of Guardianship
Orthodox Jews are often assumed to be conservatives; Charedim are ultra-conservatives. However, a careful Torah...
Between Williamsburg and Berlin: What is the “Charedi Basic”?
Covid-19 has brought many to speak of a "return to basics." Even in Charedi society,...
Duties of the Heart: Being “Someone” Before God
While we might be distant from the pagan evils of objectifying God, we sometimes fall...
The Faith of Jewish Homes
Seder night teaches us the foundations of our faith, but its study does not take...
Shavuot and the Multicultural Threat
The violence that has flared up between Arabs and Jews in Israel is symptomatic of...
Negative and Positive Liberty – A Biblical View
The concept of liberty is among the founding values of the modern political order. The...
Re-Reading “Peter and the Wolf”: On Liberty and the Problem of Evil
A liberty ideal that endorses the wholesale release of human urges can unleash an unbridled...
