See here for part I. Are You Beginning to Miss It? “The truth is that I feel totally connected. Maybe I am misleading myself, but I have a feeling that uncovering my head is a type of option also in religious society, or in its margins. I feel connected to it and part of it [...]
Alan Brill discusses Sarah Stroumsa’s new book Maimonides in His World: Portrait of a Mediterranean Thinker.
Tomer Persico at לולאת האל writes (Hebrew) about a recent conference in Efrat called הלכה עכשווית, Contemporary Halakhah. The day-long conference seems to have focused on some of the ideas that Yoav Sorek (see here and here) has been writing about lately and he was among the speakers.
Ami Eden at JTA brings a very funny video from a friend of ours, Joel Chasnoff. Joel is extremely funny and his new book, The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Jewish Kid from Chicago Fights Hezbollah: A Memoir, is the real reason (see here) that you should go to the YU book sale which will [...]
I have been thinking a lot about the interview with Yoav Sorek, which I previously blogged about, and I decided to translate the interview. The interview is from Makor Rishon, Friday, January 22, 2010/7 Shevat 5770. Below is part I. ——————— The First Post-Orthodox Yoav Sorek, the wild boy of the yeshiva journalists, took off [...]
In Makor Rishon there is a very interesting interview with Yoav Sorek about Judaism, Jewish Law, Zionism, and Sorek’s experience of taking off his kippah in order to build an Israeli Judaism. The interview can be found here (scroll down a little bit) and is in Hebrew. Here are a number of Sorek’s writings. One [...]
Professor Steven Fassberg will be speaking at JTS on The Dead Sea Scrolls and Their Contribution to the Study of Hebrew and Aramaic Date: Monday, February 8 Time: 3:40 p.m. Place: Wingate Auditorium, JTS
Amos. N. Guiora, who held numerous positions in the IDF Judge Advocate General’s Corps, has written an interesting article, “Negotiating Implementation of a Peace Agreement: Lessons Learned from Five Years at the Negotiating Table.” (hat tip) I have just read some of the article, but it strengthens the impression that the Oslo agreements weren’t thought [...]
In the most recent issue of Les Cahiers du judaïsme there is an article about the approach to Talmud study of David Weiss Halivni, “The teaching of David Halivni: deciphering the voices of the Stammaim,” written by Florian Deloup Wolfowicz. Hopefully we’ll see more from his blog, שקלא וטריא. Below is the author’s summary of [...]
The Tali Educational Fund has published a well made web site of visual representations of biblical stories, events, and characters. The web site has plans to expand the selection of images that it already offers.
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