Haaretz has an article about the role that the internet is having on the kippah serugah, the “knitted-kippah” or National-Religious, community in Israel. Rabbi Yuval Cherlow is interviewed about the effect of the internet on religious authority (see here and here),
According to him, open discussion on Web sites among the religious community undermines certain [...]
Haaretz is reporting that Bar-Ilan University will be the home of a new online library of Hebrew texts, a project initiated by President Shimon Peres.
The works slated for inclusion in the project will be selected by academics from Bar-Ilan and other universities over the next few months. In addition, a section of the data us [...]
Microsoft’s Live Search Books is officially closing its doors (closing its links/portals?). It seems that they couldn’t make enough money to justify keeping it around. See more about it here. Hopefully centralized platforms such as the Internet Archive will get a boost from this.
In January I attended a conference on Teaching Rabbinic Literature which was sponsored by the Mandel Institute at Brandeis University. They have now posted videos of most of the sessions online. There were a number of interesting sessions, including at least one, AFAIK, by a reader of this blog.
I have written before about the problem of privacy in the Internet Age, and things are just getting worse. Over at the informative NYT’s tech blog Bits there is a disturbing post describing how ISP’s (Internet Service Providers) are thinking about possibly monitoring your internet traffic and supplying advertising based upon your internet usage [...]
The journal Oral Tradition is now online. This includes both the current issue and its archives. (hat tip) One specific issue which will probably be of interest to many of this blog’s readers is vol. 14 no. 11, which has the following articles:
Jewish Folk Literature
by Dan Ben-Amos
The Fixing of the Oral Mishnah and [...]
A post to ha-Safran by YD draws our attention to the following press release:
The central Chabad-Lubavitch library in New York made 1,000 Passover Haggadahs, many of them rare, available on the Internet for browsing by the public. The Agudas Chasidei Chabad Library has one of the largest collections of the Passover orders of service in [...]
Two more things from the Internet Archive:
1. Dibre ha-riboth [microform]. Matters of controversy, a rabbinical disputation between Zerahiah ha-Levi and Abraham ben David. Published from a manuscript (unicum) in the possession of the Jewish theological seminary of America (here)
2. A Jewish Calendar for Sixty-Four Years (here- It was printed in London and is from 1838. [...]
As is apparent to anyone who tried to use the links in my recent post on books digitized by Microsoft’s Live Search, accessing digitized books that have been posted online isn’t always very successful. One step towards making it easier is Internet Archive. Internet archive was founded “with the purpose of offering permanent [...]
I have previously posted a number of digital books available on Google Books, (also see this post) and now here are some from Microsoft’s Live Search Books. Its interface is different from that of Google Books and only some of the books are downloadable.
1. A. Cohen’s translation of Massechet Berachot of the Babylonian Talmud. [...]
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