Professor Benny Kraut’s delightful history of the Yavneh student organization shows how college students can and have permanently altered the Jewish world. Read more

Rabbi David Hartman was once a leading student of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik but his intellectual path has long since diverged from his teacher’s. Read more

A rabbi’s contribution to the extensive minyan hamitzvot literature, books that count and explain the Torah’s 613 commandments, serves as a personality test. Read more

The Eastern European shtetl, for which we often wax nostalgic, began its decline in the mid-nineteenth century as the combination of urbanization, Enlightenment ideas Read more

The halachic issues surrounding organ donation and brain stem death have hovered in constant conflict for over three decades. Read more