I'm interested in how Jewish ideas have developed over time, how different thinkers have interpreted that tradition, how modern tools help understand Jewish texts - and, from it all, how these texts can be made relevant (or not!) to our modern lives.
Rishonim Podcast
A podcast exploring the lives and ideas of the Rishonim—the medieval Jewish scholars who shaped how we understand the Torah today.
Scholarship
Serious investigations into Jewish thought and texts.
Will the Real Shas Kattan Please Stand Up?
A digital humanities investigation into the identity of the Shas Kattan. Seforim Blog, 2024.
Maimonides' Afterlife and the Ignorant Heretic
Re-examining a common interpretation of Maimonides' intellectual elitism. Tradition, 2020.
(Where) Have All the Theologians Gone? Some Reflection on the Contemporary State of Orthodox Jewish Theology
My very first published essay, which I think still holds up a decade later: are there any "theologians" around today? Kol Hamevaser, 2015.
Torah
Writing on Jewish thought and practice.
Books & Thinkers
Book reviews and scholarship on Jewish thinkers.
R. Hutner on the Pesach Seder and the Problem of Evil
An investigation into the theodicy of Rabbi Isaac Hutner and its context within his thought more generally. Lehrhaus, 2025.
Review of Rav Zvi Hirsch Grodzinsky’s Taharas Yisroel
Discussion of a newly published work from the 'Chief Rabbi of Omaha, Nebraska' at the turn of the 20th century. Seforimblog, 2025.
Review of "Judaism's Encounter with Other Cultures" ed. J.J. Schacter
Consideration of Judaism, modern "culture" and the possible gap between communities and their intellectual leaders. Kol Hamevaser, 2018.
Halakhic Morality and the Halakhic Personality
A somewhat personal review of a collection of essays by Rabbi Ahron Lichtenstein. Kol Hamevaser, 2017.
Review of “Faith Shattered and Restored: Judaism in the Postmodern Age,” by Rav Shagar
On what postmodern thought has to offer contemporary religious life and thought, through the works of postmodern Judaism's major icons. Kol Hamevaser, 2016.