New Tradition

Vol. 43, No. 1,  Spring 2010

Editor’s Note: A Peshat In the Dark: Reflections on the Age of Cary Grant by Shalom Carmy
Self Dealing in the Not-For-Profit Board Room: An Inquiry into a Trustee’s Multi-Faceted Halakhic Identity by A. Yehuda Warburg
On Rationalizing Biblical Tum’a by Shlomo Spiro
On the Methodology of Jewish Medical Ethics by Alan [...]

Tradition 42:3 (Fall 2009), Including Article by Rabbi Michael Broyde on Women’s Hair Covering

Tradition 42:3 (Fall 2009)
Editor’s Note: The Teacher of Morality at Horwich Beach by Shalom Carmy
Abarbanel: Commentator and Teacher Celebrating 500 Years of His Influence on Tanakh Study by Hayyim Angel

When Torah and Science Collide by Nathan Aviezer

A Note on The Flood Story in the Language of Man by Joel Wolowelsky 

Survey of Recent Halakhic Periodical Literature: [...]

שאל אביך ויגדך: What Are the Parameters of Looking to Tradition for Guidance?

שאל אביך ויגדך: What Are the Parameters of Looking to Tradition for Guidance?
by Gidon Rothstein
In a recent shiur I give at Webyeshiva.org, I came across a story the Rov, zt”l, tells about his great-grandfather, the Beis haLevi. In the 1800s, the Radzyner Rebber, R. Gershon Henoch Leiner, believed he had re-discovered tekhelet, the bluish dye [...]

Introducing Text & Texture

Welcome to Text & Texture, Tradition’s blog of Orthodox Jewish Thought that explores the texts that shape the texture of our lives.
Our contributors will analyze a wide range of sources and contemplate their meaning for contemporary Jewish thought and living.  Reflecting the varied interests of our writers, the posts seek to provide fresh insights and thought provoking [...]