The Multifaceted Risks of Sending Iron Dome Technology to Ukraine
Transferring the missile-defense system to Odessa would be costly, dangerous, and possibly useless.
March 24, 2022
How Judaism Views the Relationship between General Knowledge and Religious Study
Norman Lamm, Torah u-madda, and 21st-century Orthodoxy.
The phrase Torah u-madda (literally, “Torah and science”) refers to the attempt to bring together fruitfully secular study and traditional Jewish learning. In America, the slogan is largely associated with the intellectual ambitions of Modern Orthodoxy of the kind nurtured at Yeshiva University. Elana Stein Hain, in the first essay of a symposium on the subject, examines the case for Torah u-madda set forth by one of its most prominent exponents: Rabbi Norman Lamm, the late former president and chancellor of that institution.
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The Growing Tension Between Saudi Arabia and the West
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How Judaism Views the Relationship between General Knowledge and Religious Study
Norman Lamm, Torah u-madda, and 21st-century Orthodoxy.
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