Below is a clip from Israel Channel 10 about a South Korean television crew that visited the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak in order to see the study of Talmud first hand. The clip is in both Hebrew and English. I tried to add subtitles, but I couldn’t see to get it done correctly. See [...]
It seems as if the conference on Torat ha-Melekh that is suppose to take place at Hebrew University this evening has been cancelled [update: maybe not]. A friend was kind enough to send me the following message from the Department of Jewish Thought, a co-sponsor of the event. מועצת החוג למחשבת ישראל התכנסה היום, יום [...]
Here is the video of Rabbi Chaim Rapoport speaking at YCT about Sefer Torat ha-Melekh. (hat tip)
Last night I went to a panel discussion with Rabbis David Bigman and Chaim Rapoport on Values and Halakhah. You can see some of my immediate reactions in my Twitter feed. Yeshivat Chovevei Torah should be thanked for both organizing this thought-provoking discussion and uploading the videos so quickly to Youtube. The videos can be [...]
A number of months ago a conference on the book Torat ha-Melekh that was scheduled to take place at Haifa University was cancelled. There is a similar conference scheduled to take place next week, Dec. 12, at Hebrew Univesity. Some people are trying to lobby the university to make sure that it doesn’t become a [...]
Ruth Langer’s book on Birkat HaMinim, Cursing the Christians?: A History of the Birkat HaMinim has just been published. From the preview on Google Books it looks like an informative read. For a discussion of this blessing in an earlier historical context, see Yaakov Teppler’s Birkat haMinim: Jews and Christians in Conflict in the Ancient [...]
John Hobbins has an insightful review into the recently released book, The Jewish Annotated New Testament. John writes: The Jewish Annotated New Testament, hereafter JANT in this review, is meant to meet the needs of discrete (and occasionally overlapping) sets of readers: (1) Jews, (2) Christians, and (3) readers who approach the New Testament without [...]
The beginning of tractate Bechorot has some interesting discussion about relations between Jews and Gentiles. The following statement is found on Bechorot 2b: והא אמר אבוה דשמואל: אסור לאדם שיעשה שותפות עם הגוי, שמא יתחייב לו שבועה, ונשבע לו בשם עבודת כוכבים שלו, והתורה אמרה: (שמות כג) לא ישמע על פיך! Has not the father [...]
The conference at Haifa University on the book Torat ha-Melekh has been cancelled after protests from numerous quarters over the author being invited to speak. (hat tip)
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