Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of learning from many and the blessing of counting some of them as friends, but Rabbi Eliyahu Fink stood apart. He had a rare ability to connect across ...

In June 2023, when Rabbi David Leybel gave a speech suggesting that ultra-Orthodox parents should be able to choose the educational framework for their children, mentioning both Haredi state ...

In “Go on, go on, go on: Samuel Beckett’s three influential novels from the 1950s, reissued,” TLS, 3/14/25, Cal Revely-Calder, writes, reviewing the reissue of Samuel Beckett’s three ...

A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, a “disaster in an otherwise blessed land.” Emma Mordecai, a Virginia Jew, prepared ...

A clinical trial is defined by NIH as a research study in which one or more human subjects are prospectively assigned to one or more interventions (which may include placebo or other control) to ...