The End of the Orthodox Voting Bloc?
The New Jersey gubernatorial race suggests that increasing numbers of haredi Jews are now voting based on personal conviction rather than communal pragmatism.
Nov. 10 2021 12:16AM
American Orthodoxy's Twilight of Authority
When the established rabbis go silent, others, including civic-minded philanthropists and charismatic outsiders with inflammatory social-media presences, fill the void.
Nov. 20 2020 12:13AM
What Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Online Mourners Got Right and Wrong about Jews, Death, and the Afterlife
When news of the Jewish justice’s death spread last week, so did a lot of weird claims about how Jews should mourn and what they believe. It’s time to clear things up.
Sept. 25 2020 12:01AM
What Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Online Mourners Got Right and Wrong about Jews, Death, and the Afterlife
When news of the Jewish justice’s death spread last week, so did a lot of weird claims about how Jews should mourn and what they believe. It’s time to clear things up.
Sept. 25 2020 12:01AM
Does Virtual Seeing Count as Seeing under Jewish Law?
How the Zoom-seder debate opens up on questions of virtual reality.
May 21 2020 12:01AM