The Lehrhaus

Steven Gotlib Review of Rabbi Ethan Tucker and Rabbi Micha’el Rosenberg, Gender Equality and Prayer in Jewish Law: Revised and Updated Edition (Hadar Press, 2025)[1] The 2021 second edition of Professor Tamar Ross’s Expanding the Palace of Torah featured…

Avraham Russell Shalev During Tucker Carlson’s combative interview with the American ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, Carlson challenged Huckabee on the right of Jews to live in Israel.

Ian Gonsher Discourse is sacred.

Elisha Price Introduction Though theologians⎯and students of theology⎯often elevate careful study of the subject and its canon to the loftiest of ideals, there are yet many facets of the subject that go largely unnoticed.

Seth C.

Summer in Jerusalem, 2022 a night darker than a pupil deeper than a drop of ink that lapses into a page craves a life in this July the dire jasmine sips the stone and dissolves into the crescent peace o aloes your limbs entwine like lovers who touch bless…

Dan Ornstein From the beginning, we and the trees have been an uneasy, restless family, all of us born in different eras, yet fashioned from the same soil of the earth.

Shira Schwartz I sat with my therapist recently and spoke about going to synagogue.

Max Hollander Introduction For my father, Jewish practice was about family.

David C.

Yaakov S.

Marina Zilbergerts The Book of Jonah, read on Yom Kippur, Judaism’s Day of Atonement, is treated as the quintessential tale of repentance.

Joe Wolfson It’s 1944 and Erich Auerbach, a German Jewish refugee in Istanbul, sits down to write what will become one of the most influential works of 20th century literary criticism.

Ari Levisohn The Thirteen Attributes of Mercy stand at the center of our language of forgiveness.

Fernando de Beer Yom Kippur does not commemorate the giving of the Torah.

Chesky Kopel It is easy, as an outsider, to condemn parents who alienate their own children over a disagreement.

Max Hollander When I was a teenager, my father asked me a question late on a Friday night.

Zoe Jick Fertik The Jewish calendar consists of eight holidays which are, in fact, two sets of four holidays.

Jackson Gardner The role which mysticism, specifically kabbalah, played in the writings of Ramban is well-known.