I finally finished reading the most recent issue of Tradition (subscription required). Maybe it’s just the new spruced-up cover, but the last few issues seem to be improving. R. Shalom Carmy writes about the supposed challenge of science to religion and offers what I think are some good suggestions. He strangely omits Rabbi Slifkin’s name despite clearly refering to him; I’m not sure why. R. Aharon Lichtenstein writes an excellent, nuanced, and refreshingly intellectually honest article about marriage and sexuality in Halakhah. R. Lichtenstein doesn’t need my praise but, suffice it to say, everything he writes is worth reading (if there are exceptions to this, I haven’t found them). A couple articles by Dr. Joel B. Wolowelsky and R. Gidon Rothstein address the growing controversy over women’s participation in Synagogue life. Dr. David Berger reviews R. Yitz Greenberg’s newest book For the Sake of Heaven and Earth: The New Encounter between Judaism and Christianity. I haven’t read the book so I’m not really in a position to evaluate the review. Read it and decide for yourself.
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