Torah Umadda: The Encounter of Religious Learning and Wordly Knowledge in the Jewish Tradition

Lamm, president of Yeshiva University, examines whether there is room within a traditional religious education for secular studies. He supports the argument that a mixture of traditional religion and worldly knowledge is not only acceptable, but recommended. Among those whose ideas he examines are Maimonides, Samson Raphael Hirsch, and Abraham Isaac Kook.

Dr. Norman Lamm, president of Yeshiva University and Jakob and Erna Michael Professor of Jewish Philosophy, is also the founding editor of Tradition: A Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought. Dr. Lamm has written six books including Torah Lishmah and Faith and Doubt. He is currently a member of New York State's Ethics Commission and lives in New York City.