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Unorthodox: How Megillat Esther Justifies the Holiday of Purim

Tzvi Sinensky

Mar 4, 2019 • 1 min read

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Reaping Well-Earned Rewards

The Greek sophist Antiphon declared that “whenever one plants a good education in a young body, it lives and increases for the whole of life, and neither rain nor drought destroys it.” Thus Antiphon inaugurated the long tradition of thinkers who compare education to agriculture. In Plato’s dialogue The

Tzvi Sinensky Jun 23, 2022 • 3 min read

The Utilitarian Case for Torah u-Madda

It has become fashionable to say that Torah u-Madda has fallen out of fashion. In this environment, Lawrence Grossman’s recent essay title “The Rise and Fall of Torah U’Madda”[1] comes as no surprise; after all, decades earlier, R. Jonathan Sacks had already noted that “Torah im derekh

Tzvi Sinensky Mar 29, 2022 • 15 min read

Lo Yilbash and Gender Difference: A Rejoinder to Moshe Kurtz

Moshe Kurtz is a passionate scholar who deserves credit for being unafraid to publish an essay weighing in on a sensitive contemporary subject. Kurtz, however, fails to demonstrate that lo yilbash provides an adequate foundation upon which to construct Torah-based opposition to contemporary gender-neutral trends.[1] Kurtz’s argument runs

Tzvi Sinensky Mar 16, 2022 • 15 min read

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