This Friday, the 3rd of Elul, is the 75th yarzheit of Rav Kook, and lots of people are writing about it. One interesting column is by Yair Lapid on Ynet. One of Rav Kook’s famous acts was his trip that he took to the new moshavot (also here) with Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld and a [...]
Rabbi Yehudah Amital z”l has passed away at the age of 85. יהי זכרו ברוך For some exposure to Rabbi Amital’s thought see this series of lectures and this article. Update: From Ynet: An article about the funeral and the eulogies. Some memories from Rabbi Benny Lau. More reactions.
My friend MS in Israel has just emailed me that Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu z”l passed away.
The bible scholar Jacob Milgrom z”l passed away on Saturday night in Jerusalem. Milgrom was one of the most important modern commentators and interpreters of the book of Leviticus. May his memory be for a blessing.
A true giant of Israel’s history died on Sunday in Israel. Arieh Lova Eliav z”l passed away at the age of eighty-eight. Eliav was a visionary who believed that people must lead by example. He was a diplomat, politician, educator, someone who wanted to help build Israeli society. For a taste of Eliav in his [...]
Prof. Moshe Greenberg z”l, one of the most important Jewish scholars of Bible in our time, has passed away in Jerusalem. The funeral will take place on Sunday May 16 , 3 Sivan at Bet Hahesped at 5:00 PM. Shiva at Sokolov 18 until Tuesday afternoon May 18, 5 Sivan, Maariv: 8:00 PM
The great historian Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi z”l has passed away. Read what Menachem Butler has written here.
I just found out that Yochanan Muffs z”l passed away. He had been ill for many years and in the past few weeks his condition deteriorated. I think that Muffs is one of the few scholars who could appropriately be called a giant of biblical scholarship and theology. His writings range from Studies in the [...]
The influential French-Jewish anthropologist Claudé Levi-Strauss has died at the age of 100. Levi-Strauss influenced researchers in many fields and you can read here an introduction to his thought. See here and here for discussions of Levi-Strauss’s influence on biblical studies. Also see this article on his life and work from the Forward.
For more about this medal see here.
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