From an email list to which I subscribe, JA pointed out the following article form Ynet. ———— New guide for the halachic and egalitarian minyan Egalitarian minyans are rampant throughout the country. Now thanks to PHD candidates Michal and Elitzur Bar-Asher they have a halachic guide to follow Can women receive the maftir aliya? Lead [...]
Much has been written about the recent papal decision regarding the Latin, or Tridentine, Mass. There have been a number of interesting posts regarding this decision. See the comments by Prof. David Berger at Hirhurim, those by John F. Hobbins at Ancient Hebrew Poetry, and this post by Iyov.
I was looking up a book in the Columbia University Library catalogue, and I noticed the following news item. Columbia University and Microsoft Corp. are collaborating on an initiative to digitize a large number of books from Columbia University Libraries and make them available to Internet users. With the support of the Open Content Alliance [...]
Sunday, March 16, 2008, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. “Jewish Renaissance and Revival in America” A Conference in Memory of Leah Levitz Fishbane, z”l (1974-2007) Speakers (in order of presentation): Dr. Eitan Fishbane, Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought, JTS Dr. Jonathan Sarna, Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, and Director, Hornstein Jewish [...]
I started to think more about la’azim (“glosses”), and I did some quick searching in the catalogue of the IMHM and found a few mss. which have la’azim in numerous languages. Here are some commentaries on the Tanakh that contain la’azim. 1. Italy, 15-16th century-glosses in Italian. 2. Italy, 16th century-glosses in Italian. 3. Ashkenaz, [...]
Haaretz has an article on the state of Jewish Studies in Israel.
Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60: The Scholarly Contributions of NYU Faculty and Alumni Co-sponsored by the New York University Center for Ancient Studies and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies March 6-7, 2008 Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102 Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East Thursday, March 6, 2008 [...]
As a result of a conversation with a few people in the library, a few questions were raised about languages relating to Rashi. It is well-known that Rashi in his commentaries to the Tanakh and Talmud brings over two thousand translations, la’azim, of Hebrew and Aramaic words, using them to explain difficult words and phrases. [...]
A Yiddish word which is known by many Jews is davenen,[1] “pray”, or as many English-speaking Jews says, “to daven“. The history of Yiddish is very interesting, and to show how difficult the question is, below are some theories as to the etymology of davenen. [2] 1. From the Hebrew daf, “a leaf of a [...]
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