Reviews in Brief
Few questions represent the challenge modernity poses to religion greater than that of intellectual freedom.
The past few years have seen a dizzying amount of revelations and publications about abuse in the Orthodox community.
When Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein speaks, people listen. In this latest collection of his articles, he addresses many of the issues…
How do we reach estranged Jews with a Torah message in this post-Oprah world of self-help spirituality?
The past few years have seen a revival of the Israeli conversion dilemma, in which the status of people who…
The application of Shabbat laws to contemporary circumstances is no simple task. So much of daily life has changed over…
Rabbi Daniel Sperber, professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University, rose to fame with the publication of his widely acclaimed and…
Anyone reading the news regularly sees images and stories of Orthodox Jews, occasionally even rabbis, misbehaving.
For a book on prayer to be successful, it has to be smart but not too smart. A book that…
For many people, engaging in modern Biblical scholarship means ignoring all previous attempts to understand the Bible. Recent trends, however,…
Halachah, Jewish law, evolves but only in a limited way. It has a static core whose applications and many details…
