Over at Live Science an article with the following headline: Most Ashkenazi Jews From Four Women. I guess that taking this into consideration Mishna Yebamot should read..ארבע נשים פוטרות צרותיהן and we could stop there.
Thanks to Cliopatria a link to an interesting article on potential conflicts between religious institutions of higher education and the religious beliefs of their faculty.
Over at AJHistory there is a post about the recent passing of Milton Himmelfarb at the age of 87. Himmelfarb was for many years a contributing editor to the journal Commentary. I am not familiar with much of Himmelfarb’s writings but I think that one of his greatest contributions was his part in the symposium [...]
An excellent post by Lawrence Solum over at Legal Theory Blog on the panel discussion at the AALS conference mentionned below. It is definitely worth a read. Courtesy of Concurring Opinions.
This past Shabbat I had a chance to read a bit of the memorial volume (mostly in Hebrew) for Prof. Zeev Falk. I had the merit of studying with Prof. Falk and speaking with him on many occasions outside of the classroom. The contents of the volume are a fitting tribute to this special individual. [...]
Orin Kerr has some discussion and links at Volokh to summaries of a recent panel at the AALS conference on Blogging: Scholarship or Distraction. There seems to have been some good discussion. What I want to know is why there are so few scholars of Judaic studies blogging? While I would agree with some of [...]
As all of our prayers are with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, we have to be reminded what despicable company some Jews keep. It seems that Pat Robertson just got another e-mail (not!) from God telling him how to interpret events here on Earth, this one informing him why Ariel Sharon is in a hospital fighting [...]
Over the past few years the Jewish National University Library has embarked upon a number of important digitization projects. The two which are of most interest to us are the Online Treasury of Talmudic Manuscripts and their Digitized Book Repository. In the past few months both collections have been augmented extensively and are well worth [...]
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