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- Letter from the Editor
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- Rav Kook’s Thoughts on Slavery: Coherence and Tension
- Of Homelands and Promised Lands: A Meditation On Exile
- Review of Letters to Talia
- Between Community and Communion
- Halakhic Morality and the Halakhic Personality: a Review of “By His Light: Character and Values in the Service of God”
- Would The Maccabees Ban the Maccabiah?
- Holistic and Holy: A Halakhic Approach to Eretz Yisrael
- “He Spoke Within a Cloud”: A Nebulous Narrative and its Normative Implications
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- An Interview with Rabbi Dr. Moshe D. Tendler
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- Letter from the Editor
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9.5 Israel (Text | PDF)
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9.3 History and Storytelling (Text | PDF)
9.2 Nature (Text | PDF)
9.1 Jewish Philosophy in the 21st Century (Text | PDF)
8.4 Tanakh in the 21st Century: Looking Back, Looking Ahead (Text | PDF)
8.3 Jewish Community: Models and Ideals (Text | PDF)
8.2 Judaism and Other Faiths (Text | PDF)
8.1 The World of the Beit Midrash (Text | PDF)
7.5 Privacy (Text)
7.4 Freedom (Text)
7.P K'ol ha-Mevaser (Text | PDF)
7.3 Mashiah (Text | PDF)
7.2 Israel and Zionism (Text | PDF)
7.1 Music and Spirituality (Text | PDF)
6.7 Rights and Obligations (PDF)
6.5 Technology (PDF)
6.4 Kol Hamevakker (PDF)
6.3 Worship (PDF)
6.2 Politics and Activism (PDF)
6.1 Miracles and Divine Intervention (PDF)
5.5 The Other in Judaism (PDF)
5.3 War and Peace (PDF)
5.2 Jewish Education (PDF)
5.1 Jewish Leadership (PDF)
4.6 The Year in Israel (PDF)
3.7 Halakhah and Minhag (PDF)
3.6 Torah, Literature, and the Arts (PDF)
3.5 Kol Hamishtakker (Part I, PDF | Part II, PDF)
3.4 Jewish Denominations and Sects (PDF)
3.3 Academic Jewish Studies (PDF)
3.2 Family and Community (PDF)
3.1 Musar and Jewish Ethics (PDF)
2.7 Orthodoxy in the 21st Century (PDF)
2.6 Jewish Philosophy (PDF)
2.5 Qol Hamevaser (PDF)
2.3 Jewish Education (PDF)
2.2 Politics and Leadership (PDF)
2.1 Spirituality: Teshuvah and Tefillah (PDF)
1.8 Israel at 60 (PDF)
1.7 Emunah (PDF)
1.3 Derekh Halimmud (PDF)
1.2 Judaism and Pop Culture (PDF)
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Articles by Mindy Schwartz
Letter from the Editor
The history of mankind is made up of our stories. Jewish history is no exception; our collective narrative is comprised of a great meddling of stories, from the histories of Philo of Alexandria to the folk tales of Chelm. The stories we were told as children, the stories we tell others, the ... Read more →
The Missing Two Hundred Years and the Historical Veracity of Hazal
Modern Jews often encounter a tug of war between scholarship and rabbinic tradition. Hazal have left us with an extensive and exacting record of what to do and what to believe. It is our task to sift through this record and determine which parts of this record are incumbent upon us today. While ... Read more →
The Natural and Spiritual Light: The Duality of Hanukkah
Idolatry, the single greatest temptation of the ancient Jew, holds the attention of the biblical narrative with a choking grip until the destruction of the first Temple. Rambam explains this obsession as a gradual evolution.[i] When man first bowed to the luminary bodies he did so as an ... Read more →
Letter from the Editor