Guest Posts

Unpacking Hazon Ish: How Do We View the Formerly Observant? Guest post by R. Gidon Rothstein Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein is the author of We’re Missing the Point: What’s Wrong with the Orthodox Jewish Community and How to Fix It, Educating a People: An Haftarot Companion as a Source for a Theology of Judaism, and two works of Jewishly-themed fiction, ...

Guest post by R. Eliezer Melamed R. Eliezer Melamed is Head of Yeshivat Har Bracha and a prolific author on Jewish law. His works include the Peninei Halachah series on Jewish law and a popular weekly column Revivim. The following is the authorized translation of Peninei Halachah, Zemanim 7:1. The first paragraph was added by the editor. Is there an ...

A Righteous Balaam: Balaam’s Character According to Maimonides Guest post by Mark Douek Mark Douek is from Potomac, MD and is an undergraduate finance and accounting student at the University of Maryland- College Park. He previously attended Yeshivat Eretz Hatzvi in Jerusalem, Israel. I. Balaam in Rabbinic Literature In his Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides determines certain characteristics that all ...

Rabbi David Hartman’s Theological Legacy: A Preliminary Evaluation Guest post by Alex Ozar Alex Ozar is a Fellow at the Tikvah Fund in New York, and working toward semikha at RIETS. His writing has appeared, or will be appearing, in Tradition, the Torah U-Madda Journal, and First Things magazine. “Two ships, both without a compass, are drifting on a night ...

Guest post by R. Shmuel Goldin Rabbi Shmuel Goldin is the rabbi of Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood, NJ, served for many years as an instructor in Bible, Philosophy and Talmud at Yeshiva University, and is currently President of the Rabbinical Council of America. This essay and many more can be found in his recently published Unlocking the Torah Text: ...

Guest post by R. Gidon Rothstein Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein is the author of We’re Missing the Point: What’s Wrong with the Orthodox Jewish Community and How to Fix It, Educating a People: An Haftarot Companion as a Source for a Theology of Judaism, and two works of Jewishly-themed fiction, Murderer in the Mikdash and Cassandra Misreads the Book of ...

Guest post by Dr. Moshe Simon-Shoshan Dr. Moshe Simon- Shoshan is a scholar and teacher of aggada. He is currently on the faculty of the Rothberg School at the the Hebrew University and the Virtual Beit Midrash at Yeshivat Har Eztion. He is the author of Stories of the Law: Narrative Discourse and the Construction of Authority in the Mishnah. ...

Guest post by R. Gidon Rothstein Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein is the author of We’re Missing the Point: What’s Wrong with the Orthodox Jewish Community and How to Fix It, Educating a People: An Haftarot Companion as a Source for a Theology of Judaism, and two works of Jewishly-themed fiction, Murderer in the Mikdash and Cassandra Misreads the Book of ...

Guest post by R. Yitzhak Ajzner Rav Yitzhak Ajzner came on Aliya from Australia immediately after high school. He spent 10 years in education in Israel, in various positions ranging from a school principal to a teacher at the Hesder Yeshiva in Ma’ale Adumim. He also served as a community rabbi for a few years. He currently works as a ...

Guest post by R. Yonatan Kaganoff Rabbi Yonatan Kaganoff served for many years as a Rabbinic Coordinator in the OU’s Kashruth Division and was the founding Online Editor of the journal Tradition. He has semikhah from RIETS, studied Jewish philosophy at the Bernard Revel Graduate School and serves on the Board of Advisors of K’hal Adath Jeshurun in Washington Heights. ...