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• Analysis of a Narrative related to Cultural Resiliency using a Framework for evaluating Personal Narrative
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/08/analysis-of-a-narrative-related-to-cultural-resiliency-using-a-framework-for-evaluating-personal-narrative/

  …can be reframed and expanded to encompass the traumatic experience, they can foster posttraumatic growth. Over the past three decades, an extensive body of research has emerged exploring the connection…

• Who Do We Pasken Like?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/08/who-do-we-pasken-like/

  …because he influenced his grandson to continue the search for better understandings of the text (see Rashbam Genesis 37:2). Those who simply assume Rashi’s interpretation of a text is correct,…

• Shoftim: “The Space-Time Continuum”
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/shoftim-space-time/

  …the Biblical prohibition against moving a homeowner’s fencepost to morph into a grander rule beyond its original intent. Thus, the term “Hasagat G’vul” was used in Sifre (Devarim, 188) in…

• Partnership Prayer and the Essence of Orthodoxy
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/08/partnership-prayer-and-the-essence-of-orthodoxy/

  …as a sacrifice. The Sages viewed the concern for human dignity to be sufficient grounds to permit woman to lean on their offering. Put in legal terms, the case is…

• Parshat Bechukotai – “Et Tu?”
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/parshat-bechukotai-et-tu/

  …[3]. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%AA [4]. I found this occurrence in about 5 minutes using a Bar Ilan search. Rashi had to do a manual search through all 24 books in the Tanach….

• An Open Letter Of A Modern Orthodox Rabbi To The Ou’s Ban On Orthodox Women Rabbis
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/04/an-open-letter-of-a-modern-orthodox-rabbi-to-the-ous-ban-on-orthodox-women-rabbis/

  …rule. However, some within Orthodoxy invoke “Tradition” as if this term refers to a specific legal rule, without defining its parameters, to be invoked when all other claims fail. In…

• Omer Observances: Appropriate Abstinence or Excessive Restraint?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/04/omer-observances/

  …the restrictions ending vis a vis haircutting, but intends both issues. – Regarding haircuts, the language used is “להסתפר,” which generally is not a term used to refer to shaving…

• Yom Kippur – “To Be a Kid Again”
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/yom-kippur-to-be-a-kid-again/

  …Jewish population that, outside of Orthodox circles, tends to terminate Jewish education precisely when the main thrust of Judaism is beginning to become relevant. To be certain, a ten year…

• Yom Kippur – Committing to Torah
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/yom-kippur-committing-to-torah/

  …[2] Deuteronomy 27:26. [3] Rashi on Deuteronomy 27:26 (“כאן כלל את כל התורה כולה וקבלוה עליהם באלה ובשבועה”). [4] Ramban on Deuteronomy 27:26. Note that Ramban is explaining the term…

• Rabbi David Weiss Halivni @ 90
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/03/rabbi-david-weiss-halivni-90/

  …this man, whose son is so learned, whose reputation for greatness so dazzling, and whose voluminous Talmudic research has set the agenda of Talmudic scholarship to this day? Born in…

• Kadesh u’R’chatz – 14 Steps or 15 Steps?
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/parashat/kadesh-urchatz-14-steps-or-15-steps/

  …or steps. The same term – Ma’alot – are used in the preface to the song Dayenu. “Cama Ma’alot Tovot Aaleinu!” This indicates that each step from Ilu hotzianu is…

• “Orthodox” Is Not A Trademark Of The OU
  https://utj.org/viewpoints/2018/02/orthodox-is-not-a-trademark-of-the-ou/

  …further that Open Orthodoxy has a legitimate claim on the term “Orthodox.” The full article can be read here. I am only tangentially invested in this debate, since I prefer…