Jews never shunned artistic depictions of reality.

Modern Orthodoxy vs. humility.

Breaking down the wall.

The Last Rabbi.

Ben-Gurion, Strauss, and Soloveitchik.

Some rabbis have treated God like a petulant member of the Knesset.

Holding out for a Hall-of-Famer.

From Hermann Cohen to Joseph B. Soloveitchik.

In this week’s Torah reading, God feeds the people quail “until it comes out of their noses.”

On Yuval Levin’s revolution in American religiosity.

Joseph Soloveitchik’s “Confrontation.”

The Torah doesn’t need external validation.

Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s answer.

In Key Largo he gives a variation on a legend from the Talmud.