Makor Rishon’s Musaf Shabbat has a very interesting interview (Hebrew) with Daniel Sperber. Much of the interview discusses Judaism’s attitude toward Eastern religions and a recent book by Sperber that discusses this question. It also includes Sperber describing his days in Yeshivat Hebron and his own backpacking trip to India.
Vered Noam published an article [PDF] (Hebrew, as are all of the links.) in this past shabbat’s issue of Musaf Shabbat that is causing quite a bit of discussion in the blogosphere and social media. Noam challenges the current status of women in Orthodox Judaism and calls for change.
This week’s issue of Makor Rishon’s Musaf Shabbat is full of interesting articles (Hebrew) relating to Jewish law and culture in Israel. There’s an article on Rabbi Shlomo Goren’s approach to halakhah, an interview with Rabbanit Chana Henkin about the next step after the success of Yoatzot Halacha program, and an article about the creation [...]
Beit Morasha and the Musaf Shabbat of Makor Rishon are sponsoring an evening dedicated to volume 27 of the journal Akdamot. It will be at Beit Morasha in Jerusalem on Dec. 12, 2011. The title of the evening is: ההלכה: בין קודש לחול. Details can be found here.
I am not sure if history will see this as the opening battle, but the struggle for what may be the future of Religious Zionism seems to be under way. A number of weeks ago Rabbi Neriah Gutal wrote a review of Rabbi Israel Rosen’s book, Ve-Ohev ha-Ger in Musaf Shabbat. A number of responses [...]
Musaf Shabbat has an article on the third volume of Kuntress ha-Teshuvot He-Ḥadash, although it seems from here as if the fourth volume has already been published.
From the most recent Musaf Shabbat (Hebrew) of Makor Rishon: 1. A nice article about the plans for the National Library of Israel. Also see this article from the Jpost. 2. An article by Dr. Harel Gordon on Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. Dr. Gordon wrote his dissertation on Rav Moshe’s halakhic methodology.
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