Readers of Israel’s Haaretz.com, many of them liberal and secular, must have been surprised to read, in late October, a public manifesto, signed by 42 members of the Rabbinical Council of America ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things the Very Rev. Andreas Blom encourages them to do is give up the thing that brought them ...

There have been several articles about Orthodox Judaism in the Jewish Standard in the last few months, one by Rabbi Shmuel Goldin and another by Rabbi Tzvee Zahavy. Rabbi Zahavy responded to a ...

The other day, I read Carl Trueman's piece in First Things titled "David French And The Future Of Orthodox Protestantism". Nowhere in the short essay is "orthodox Protestantism" defined. In the ...

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COMMENTARY: Despite the lamentable developments in Ukraine and beyond in 2022, it’s possible 2023 could herald long-desired ecumenical breakthroughs. Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew ...

Playing in the fields of heresy and ambiguity might offer short-term kicks, but only sound doctrine can supply a lifetime of thrills. Trevin Wax stands firmly in Chesterton’s tradition with his new ...

“Orthodoxy” doesn’t matter. And it hasn’t for decades. It has become a word foreign to modern ears, an idea meaningless to modern minds, a body of practical ideas and principles with no real ...

I was waiting to see something definite before posting about it, but I’m leaving tomorrow for Italy, and I’m afraid that it’ll happen while I’m on the book tour, and I will not have the opportunity to ...

When my Harvard colleague Stephen Greenblatt saw my book Extraterrestrial featured on the cover of the Orthodox Jewish magazine Ami, he commented “It is interesting that the Orthodox evidently do not ...

A public “Rabbis Letter” has been issued, signed by 80 “Orthodox rabbis” from various walks of life, attacking aspects of the morality of Israel’s conduct of the war. I am not going to discuss the ...