A recent case whose legal justification sounds interesting. Judge Rules Church Can Fire Teacher For Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy: “ A Brooklyn woman’s claim that she was unfairly fired from a Seventh-Day Adventist church’s school for being pregnant–and unmarried–was quashed by a federal judge yesterday. Back in 2001, Jewel Redhead was fired from the Linden Seventh Adventist [...]
From Rogue Classicism: First call for papers Conference: Roman latrines and cesspit toilets in the northwestern provinces. Contact: Latrine2009 AT gmail.com The public and private toilets in the Roman cities in the Mediterranean area have been the subject of archaeological research for many years. We know a great deal about the way these toilets were [...]
R. Nachum Eliezer Rabinovitz is the rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Birkat Moshe. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including the commentary on the Mishneh Torah, Yad Peshutah. I am no fan of R. Rabinovitz’s politics, but I do find his halakhic writings challenging and informative. I am therefore looking forward to looking [...]
Almost everyone who has taught a course on a university-level has experienced the complaints of students after they see the syllabus and what you expect of them. Read what this lecturer wrote in their syllabus. I recognize that I have assigned a lot of reading for a seminar. Before many of you go to the [...]
Rogue Classicism has the latest on the cinematic production “Hadrian”, starring Daniel Craig.
From Benjamin Richler on H-Judaic: New publication from The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Yerushalmi Neziqin, edited from the Escorial Manuscript, with an introduction by E.S. Rosenthal; introduction and commentary by S. Lieberman. Now includes fragments from the Italian Genizah, with introductions by David Rosenthal. Third printing Jerusalem 2008 (first printing Jerusalem 1983). vi [...]
There has been much discussion about the recent prisoner exchange with Hezbollah, see a little from me here, this post for a summary of some halakhic opinions, and this one for a discussion from a security standpoint (hat tip). What has been pointed out by some, and all of these discussions are relatively easy for [...]
Here are some new books which I have seen catalogued at the JNUL in the past few weeks and that I haven’t seen mentioned on other blogs. 1. A new edition of Ginat Veradim on כללי הש”ס by R. Yosef Teumim. 2. The Book of Psalms with the Hebrew and an English translation. What was [...]
Haaretz has more on attempts to set up an alternative Rabbinic court system.
Dr. Meir Hildesheimer has written about R. Samson Raphael Hirsch at Seforim. An ironic bibliographical note, which I always found interesting, is that the translator into English of Hirsch’s The Nineteen Letters of Ben Uziel: Being a Spiritual Presentation of the Principles of Judaism, was none other than R. Dr. Bernard Drachman, a graduate of [...]
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