Just in time for summer, swimwear for the modest woman by Sea Secret. Read more about modest swimsuits here. I think that it is a great idea that may have appeal outside of the religious community. Are you ready for the summer, are you ready for the sunshine?
The Cambridge Companion to Philo has recently been published. (hat tip) It contains a chapter by David Winston on “Philo and Rabbinic Literature.” Winston is the editor of Philo of Alexandria: The Contemplative Life, Giants and Selections. I also once heard, that according to Saul Lieberman, he was one of the best students of Talmud [...]
In the early 1990′s the Columbia University School of Law and the Shalom Hartman Institute published a very good journal called S’vara. Unfortunately, only four issues were ever published. These four issue are available in PDF format here. Below is a description of the journal. S’Vara: A Journal of Philosophy, Law, and Judaism is a [...]
I am happy to inform you of a welcome addition to the blogosphere, The Talmud Blog. The goal is to build a kind of command center that keeps up with new trends in the field, reviews recent research, covers conferences, meetings, and symposia, looks at nifty new tools, and occasionally, considers the broader implications of [...]
As I wrote in this previous post, the question of what is the proper blessing over Bamba is causing some people to be quite perplexed. The Bamba Blessing Wars have heated up with the latest battlefield being the Yosef family. Apparently, last week R. David Yosef published a book with a letter from his father, [...]
See here for a new update from Hebrew Books. There are the usual gems. Here are some. 1. Saul Lieberman’s Yerushalmi Kif-Shuto 2. Louis Ginzberg, Perushim ve-Huddim be-Yerushalmi 3. Jastrow’s dictionary 4. Parts of Aptowitzer’s edition of Sefer Ha-Raviah, but also his very important Mavo Le-Sefer ha-Raviah.
In 1981 Shaye J.D. Cohen wrote a very influential article “Epigraphical Rabbis” [The Jewish Quarterly Review, New Ser., Vol. 72, No. 1. (Jul., 1981), pp. 1-17]. In this article Cohen examines the names of rabbis for whom we have epigraphical evidence of their existence, comparing the “epigraphical” to the “literary” rabbis. His conclusions were that [...]
Raymond Ibrahim has a article in the latest issue of the Middle East Quarterly, “Are Judaism and Christianity as Violent as Islam?”. Ibrahim’s claim is that there is a fundamental difference between violence in the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religions. (hat tip) He wrote he following regarding violence in the Bible, Old Testament violence is [...]
Matthias Lehmann reviews here Matt Goldish’s Jewish Questions: Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period. From the table of contents it looks like an excellent collection of responsa from the period.
I am helping my son review for a test on Numbers 11-12 and here is his explanation of Numbers 11:26. There were two guys partying in the machaneh sharing their limited edition nevuah.
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