Joshua Berman

Response · December 23, 2013
The Crisis in Jewish Law Today
Orthodox rabbis need to stop worrying about 200-year-old battles with “Reformers” and allow Jewish law to develop organically, as it always did in the past.
Response · December 15, 2013
The Paths Not Taken
By Chaim Saiman
There have been two moments in the last 150 years when the assumptions behind Jewish law seemed poised to change. Nothing happened. Is today different?
Response · December 9, 2013
The Art of “Halakhah”
By Gil Student
Why Jewish law is more a set of guidelines than of rules.
Monthly Essay · December 2, 2013
What Is This Thing Called Law?
By Joshua Berman
The Jewish Legal Tradition and Its Discontents