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Academics will ask, “What does this story say?” The religious person will ask, in addition, “What is the story saying…
To us as Torah Jews, the Torah is the way Chazal, the Rishonim and the Acharonim understood it.
If studied in the spirit of the Sages, Tanach can help us answer questions that arise—questions of faith, morality, values,…
Neglect of Tanach study among the Ashkenazim dates back to the Middle Ages.
Anyone who engages in the valuable pursuit of discovering novel interpretations of Scripture must be wary of going too far.
The explosion in English-language Orthodox print media is a wonderful development, especially for those of us who recall the days…
A quarter of a century ago, if one wanted to get an inside look into the more traditional circles of…
Shoshana Friedman insists she didn’t choose her field. It chose her. A computer science and math major in college, she…
The word “eclectic” is the one that jumps out when exploring the world of Rochel Sylvetsky—her upbringing, education and career…
The trendiest place to be every Wednesday night in Jerusalem is not a ‘60s Anglo bar or a rock concert,…
When Rechy Frankfurter and her husband Yitzchok launched Ami Magazine in 2010, they weren’t the only game in town. A…