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Author Archives: Luke Ford
The Silent Son
A young Orthodox man at twenty-three, raised in Pico-Robertson, schooled at a yeshiva, sitting next to his father at the Shabbos table. He has been using oxycodone for two years. He has not told his parents. He has not told … Continue reading
The Heart Attack Euphemism
Young Orthodox men, often married with children, keep dying of drug overdoses. Their families called the deaths heart attacks. The pattern shows up in LA, Brooklyn, Lakewood, and Queens. Rabbi Zvi Gluck of Amudim has reported more than sixty opioid-related … Continue reading
The Humanistic Halakha and the Crisis of Rabbinic Authority: On Aviad Hollander’s Study of Daniel Sperber
R. Aviad Hollander’s study of Rabbi Prof. Daniel Sperber’s (b. 1940) halakhic methodology, “The Humanistic Halakha: Clarifying the Nature of Rabbi Prof. Daniel Sperber’s Approach to Halakha,” recognizes that the contemporary crisis of halakhic authority is about power as expressed … Continue reading
‘Zionist-Messianic Halakha’
Aviad Hollander’s chapter “Zionist-Messianic Halakha” reconstructs Rabbi Shlomo Goren (1917-1994) as a theorist of sovereign Jewish existence. Hollander shows that Goren’s halakhic rulings emerge from a theology of history. The establishment of the State of Israel constitutes for Goren a … Continue reading
Halachic Multiculturalism and the Crisis of the People’s Army: Women’s Singing, Sovereignty, and Jurisprudential Transformation in the IDF
Aviad Yehiel Hollander’s 2014 article, “Halachic Multiculturalism in the IDF: Rulings of Official Religious Authorities in Israel Concerning ‘Women’s Singing,’” remains an indispensable analysis of the evolving relationship among halacha, military sovereignty, and multicultural governance in the State of Israel. … Continue reading
‘Danger, Slippery Slope!’
R. Aviad Hollander’s essay “סכנה, מדרון חלקלק!” (“Danger, Slippery Slope!”) exposes the structural tensions the return of Jewish sovereignty generates. At first glance, the essay seems to address a familiar controversy inside contemporary Religious Zionism: the integration of women into … Continue reading
Rabbi Eliezer and the Governance of Reproduction: Sexual Discipline, Porous Anthropology, and Covenantal Survival in Late Antique Rabbinic Judaism
A review essay on Yitzchak Roness and Aviad Yehiel Hollander, “How Shall the Children Be Beautiful: Rabbi Eliezer and Eugenics in the Eyes of the Sages,” Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal 10 (2012): 25–44. The testimony of Imma Shalom (fl. … Continue reading
The Bounded Sovereign: Eglah Arufah and the Architecture of Delegated Responsibility
Few of the Torah’s legal and ritual institutions rival eglah arufah for conceptual strangeness or political suggestion. Deuteronomy 21 describes the rite. A corpse turns up in an open field. The murderer is unknown. The elders of the nearest city … Continue reading
The Halachic Anthropology of Self-Harm: Sanctity, Stewardship, and the Limits of Bodily Autonomy in the Bar-Ilan Monograph on חבלה עצמית
The Bar-Ilan University Institute for Advanced Torah Studies monograph “חבלה עצמית – מקורות והכוונה ללימוד עצמי” by Rabbi Yitzchak Roness and Rabbi Aviead Yechiel Hollander presents itself as a halachic study of the prohibition against self-injury. Beneath its technical handling … Continue reading
‘An Introduction to Life: The Educational Home of the Religious-Zionist Householder’
Rabbi Dr. Aviad Y. Hollander’s essay looks at first like an article on pedagogy within the Religious-Zionist world. In substance it is a meditation on the conditions under which a covenantal civilization survives inside modernity. Beneath its discussions of curriculum, … Continue reading