October 6: Jewish Theological Seminary Library Open House, New York: “Please join JTS library staff on Tuesday, October 6th from 4:30-6 pm on the 5th floor of the Library for an exploration of the High Holidays through our holdings of manuscripts, rare books, broadsides and archival material, as well as our digital collections. The Library’s [...]
My parents told me about a post at the blog D’yo Ilu Yamey which includes a number of translations of poems relating to the Akedah and the life of Abraham. They offer some thought-provoking material from modern texts for Rosh ha-Shannah study since Gen. chapters 21-22 are read on Rosh ha-Shannah. The poems can be [...]
Rav Tzair reviews a new volume in Yediot Sefarim’s Am ha-Sefer series. The book collects and analyzes writings from Sephardic rabbis.
While looking for something else, I stumbled across an interview with Dana Kaplan, author of Contemporary American Judaism: Transformation and Renewal. His summary of the book. I argue that American Jews, like other Americans, have become much more interested in personal spirituality, and this has transformed American Judaism. Until the end of World War II, [...]
The Rabbinical Assembly will be publishing a new mahzor next year. You can see some sample pages which can be downloaded here.
A few weeks ago, one of the local papers had an article about another blogger who lives in my neighborhood, Aliza Hausman. She describes herself as “a Dominican-American Latina and Orthodox Jewish convert (Jewminicana for short!), freelancer writer, blogger and speaker.” For those looking for something in addition to questions concerning philology, manuscripts, Talmud study, [...]
For more about this medal see here.
INN is reporting that archaeologists have discovered a synagogue dating from the late second temple period in Migdal/Magdala, north of Tiberias. See this press release and these posts. Below are some pictures from the Antiquities Authority. The article quotes Dina Avshalom-Gorni saying that this is the first time that a menorah decoration has been found [...]
Pauline Malkiel, the librarian of the Valmadonna Trust Library, has a post at Seforim, now back at its old home, on the library. There is also an article by Allison Hoffman in Tablet on the library. The two of them make nice complimentary reading on the library, its history, and what the future may hold [...]
The other day our family returned from a great vacation on Cape Cod, a very fitting way to end the summer. I am still getting organized with the start of the new school so blogging might be a bit erratic. We rented a house on a lake with friends so I got to do plenty [...]
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