Friday, March 26, 2010


New Periodical: Kol Hamevaser 3:6

There is a new issue of Kol Hamevaser: The Jewish Thought Magazine of the Yeshiva University Student Body on the topic of "Torah, Literature, and the Arts." The whole issue is available here: link. Also, those who would like to subscribe to automatically receive a PDF version of new editions of the paper should send an e-mail to kolhamevaser@gmail.com. If you wish to receive a hard copy of the paper for the price of shipping and handling, please e-mail us your contact information and home address.
  • Continuity at Yeshiva: The Search for Torah u-Gedulah be-Makom Ehad by Shlomo Zuckier
  • Letter-to-the-Editor by Hayyim Rothman
  • Modern Midrash: Creating New Meanings in an Ancient Text by AJ Berkovitz
  • Painting the Bible: A Different Form of Parshanut by Ilana Gadish
  • A Yid in King Arthur’s Court by Nicole Grubner
  • “There are No Synonyms:” Sound, Subtlety, and Suggestion in Torah Texts by Ariel Caplan
  • An Interview with Rabbi Jeremy Wieder by Staff
  • Creation: An Endless Human Process by Sarit Bendavid
  • The Weaver’s Threads: How Name, Story, and Prayer Form a Braid between Torah, Literature and the Art of Storytelling by Professor Peninnah Schram
  • Torah Observance by Ori Kanefsky
  • Literary Bible: Moving Beyond Questions of Authorship by Jake Friedman
  • The Pillar of Salt: Anti-War Protest Revisited by Chesky Kopel
  • “A Yid iz Geglichn tzu a Seyfer Toyre” by Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
  • Chabad: Some Perspectives on Hashra’at ha-Shekhinah by Aviva Farkas
  • A Beit Midrash of One’s Own by Fran Tanner
  • The Moral Imperative of Prayer by Jina Davidovich
  • Majestic and Inviting: A Review by Alex Luxenberg
  • Tanakh According to Nebuchadnezzar by Yaakov Hoffman

1 comment:

  1. The interview with Rabbi Wieder is great, and the editorial calling upon the YU community to give some thought as to what sort of person the next Rosh HaYeshiva should be was quite thought provoking.

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