▪ David Brooks on the struggle for belief: Alone, Yet Not Alone
▪ Why The Orthodox Union Opposes the Contraception Mandate
▪ I’m getting sick of the “change” mantra: Rabbi Creates ‘Playlist’ for Changing Tunes of Synagogue Life
▪ The development of the concept of the individual in Medieval times (h/t First Thoughts): ‘Inventing the Individual’
▪ Women must be agents, not objects, in Modern Orthodoxy
▪ The quest for paintings from a lost Jewish world
▪ This is how a Jewish community dissolves. So sad: Are in-marriage and intermarriage equal in Reform Judaism?
▪ The first photographs of Jerusalem: Jerusalem 1844
▪ Gordimer: Women and Tefillin: A Study in Breached Boundaries
▪ Woolf: Thoughts on the Great Tefillin Controversy
▪ The Jewish Reaction to the Livorno Earthquake of January 27, 1742
▪ Super Bowl ‘Kosher Halftime Show’ Planned By Jewish Network, Sponsored by Empire and the OU
▪ I agree that watching the Super Bowl is a bedieved (that is done not just in the Modern Orthodox community) but I think the OU is doing the right thing by trying to enhance the bedieved experience: Frum media will not kosherize the super bowl
