A decade after the closure of Jews’ College, supposedly for lack of demand, Britain’s mainstream Orthodox community is once again producing its own rabbis.
As long as Israel’s chief rabbis act as bureaucrats rather than ambassadors, Judaism will remain inaccessible and meaningless to many Israelis.
Logical maneuvers in Tractate Pesahim are a reminder that studying Talmud yields not just knowledge of the law but training for the mind.
A new collection of essays argues that the early rabbis succeeded by offering ordinary Jews the opportunity to be spiritual without renouncing a worldly way of life.
The codification of Jewish law, argued Eliezer Berkovits, was a price that had to be paid for Jewish survival in exile; but it has turned. . .
The discovery of a 19th-century mikveh (ritual bath) in rural Connecticut suggests that earlier generations of American Jews were much more religious than historians—or their. . .
Becoming a recognized authority in Jewish law depends less on the assent of the general public, and more on the respect of other experts.