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Excelling in Faith

We live in a generation where mitzvah observance and Torah study have risen dramatically over previous generations. Yet, it is…

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The Satmar Rebbe and His English Principal: Reflections on the Struggle to Build Yiddishkeit in America

For over half a century Rabbi Hertz Frankel, a college-educated Agudist product of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, has been the bridge…

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Rashi: The Magic and the Mystery

If anyone thought that studying Rashi’s commentary to Chumash was a simple task, this book will quickly disabuse him of…

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Modern Orthodox Judaism: A Documentary History (JPS Anthologies of Jewish Thought)

But what distinguishes “Modern Orthodoxy” from Orthodoxy? Is it a movement or is it merely “the other”—the Orthodoxy that is…

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Reviews in Brief

Rabbi Gamliel Shmalo’s Learning To Grow is billed as “a spiritual guide to your year in Israel” but do not…

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Seminary Savvy: Every Girl’s Guide to a Successful, Safe, and Satisfying Experience—in Seminary & Beyond

A running theme in the book is the “fifth volume of the Shulchan Aruch: common sense;” the authors implore young…

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When God is Near: On the High Holidays

We must take responsibility for the world in which we live, and universal concerns such as the eroding ozone layer…

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Torah and Western Thought: Intellectual Portraits of Orthodoxy and Modernity

Though the editors seem bent on avoiding the term “Modern Orthodoxy” either in the title or anywhere else in the…

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Reviews in Brief

Finance, as an industry, has gained a reputation as a ruthless, amoral field where the only rule is to make…

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Review: Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence

I don’t think there is any one on the Jewish scene today who combines the breadth, creativity, insight and eloquence…

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The Koren Tehillim

As people of religious spirit, we look to Tehillim to help us overcome the hardships of life as well as…

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