As is apparent to anyone who tried to use the links in my recent post on books digitized by Microsoft’s Live Search, accessing digitized books that have been posted online isn’t always very successful. One step towards making it easier is Internet Archive. Internet archive was founded “with the purpose of offering permanent access for [...]
While I know that Purim is past, and Pesach doesn’t necessarily excel at the comedy motif, if anyone was looking for a way to pass the time I highly recommend The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time. (hat tip)
I have previously posted a number of digital books available on Google Books, (also see this post) and now here are some from Microsoft’s Live Search Books. Its interface is different from that of Google Books and only some of the books are downloadable. 1. A. Cohen’s translation of Massechet Berachot of the Babylonian Talmud. [...]
The BBC has a recent report on the Hebrew level of members of the Knesset and how one politician wants to improve it. Long live Ha-Adademia la-Lashon ha-Ivrit! See their latest decisions regarding grammar and words/terminology. One would think that their web site should have a basic introduction to the history of Hebrew and its [...]
The JNUL has recently added a service through which one can receive updates of all recently catalogued books through an RSS feed. A few times a week they publish listings, which on the average have been between 75-100, of newly catalogued items and through a link one can see the full listing in their catalogue. [...]
See R. David Golinkin’s responsum on the question of how one should conduct themselves when Erev Pesach falls on Shabbat. For more of his responsa that are on-line see here.
See this post from Iyov about a ban on the 1917 JPS translation.
I just came across an approbation by Rav Soloveitchik, something which I don’t recall seeing many of. It is to Jewish Jurisprudence: Its Sources and Modern Applications by Emanuel B. Quint and Neil S. Hecht. While words of Rav Soloveitchik are under the heading of “Foreward”, I feel that its content and style justifies it [...]
Who would have thought? According to official census returns from Roman Egypt dating to the first to third centuries A.D., more than sixteen per cent, or twenty-two of the one hundred and thirty-six documented marriages in which the degree of kinship between spouses is ascertainable, were celebrated between full brothers and sisters and four-fifths of [...]
In Support of Dr. Peter Enns (the following is from Codex): As many of my readers may have already heard, Dr. Peter Enns, Associate Professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia), has been suspended by the Board of Trustees effective 23 May 2008, pending review ‘to consider whether Professor Enns should be terminated [...]
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