In a poignant poem about the seeming lack of spirituality in the pragmatic mikvah process, Naima Hirsch Gelman asks about God’s place.

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The midrash at times meshes perfectly with the text, but at other times stands in stark contrast. Rina Krautwirth traces several examples of midrashim which exist for moral instruction and evaluates the use of metaphors in the text.

The number of Orthodox women Rabbis serving communities is growing, and several rabbinic leaders discuss how they see their role in making change and what they see the future as holding.

Following Walder’s suicide, many people equate suicide and murder. Rabbi Marianne Novak objects to this comparison and provides comfort for the victims.

The process of redeeming a nation requires efforts both public and private. Rabbi Phoebe Ana Rabinowitch shows how the subtle, carefully hidden actions of many facilitated a larger-scale and overt redemption.

When classroom tensions rise, Yali Szulanski encourages her students to meditate and breathe through the stress, helping each student build an individual connection to the material and to their peers. Having found inner peace through boxing, the educator encourages her students to do the same and express themselves creatively as a means of four-fold connection.

The relationship between grandparents and their grandchildren is one which cannot be underemphasized. Rabbanit Adina Fredman locks in on the shift in pronouns during the berachot to explain how creating a legacy which embraces all generations can be the secret to a healthy and happy lineage.

The story of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus’s ongoing feud with the rabbis in which he invokes all kinds of miracles and refuses to back down may be the story of a man with autism rather than an inexplicably stubborn man. In fact, argues Rabbanit Dr. Liz Shayne, the depiction of an individual removed from yeshiva for masking his autism insufficiently is not the first nor the last as such.

As Maharat graduate Rabbanit Dasi Fruchter’s shul picks up speed, the ordinee speaks about her experience as a woman leading a Modern Orthodox community and the lines she sees within the community at large.