A two-volume memorial volume has just been published for Prof. I.M. Ta-Shma. (hat tip) The book can be ordered from EliezerBrodt-at-gmail.com. It is nine hundred pages of research into liturgy, Jewish law, customs, history, etc.
Jewish Ideas Daily published an article by Alex Joffe, Jewish Studies in Decline? I think that the state of Jewish Studies is affected by a number of factors, some of them being: 1. The decline of the humanities versus the sciences and applied professions in some quarters; 2. The nature of the research itself; 3. [...]
Last week was the 25th yarzheit of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. I was in Israel at the time of his funeral, although I didn’t have much of an idea who he was, that only came a few years later. A number of interested posts were written about him. See this one by Adderabbi and this one [...]
I am on the bus home from AJS, so I’ll take advantage of the Wi-Fi and write a second update about the conference. The following session was standing room only, accompanied by quite a bit of excitement. THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD IN ITS SASANIAN CONTEXT: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Chairs: Yaakov Elman (Yeshiva University) P. Oktor Skjaervo [...]
AJS 2010 is going very well. I have gone to some very good sessions, had a chance to (re)meet some great people, and spend time with friends and strangers. Here are a few comments on what I’ve heard so far. Sunday, Session 1-”CLASSICAL RABBINICS AS A PRISM FOR JEWISH HISTORIOGRAPHY”: The conference started off with [...]
From Hagahot: “A friend of mine just launched a website aiming to bring together anti-racist rabbis. The website is here. There’s a growing list of links here. (Via Hagahot.)
According to this post (includes video interview) at CNN’s Belief Blog, Rabbi David Hartman is publishing a new book called The God Who Hates Lies: Rethinking Jewish Law. The video can also be found here.
From Jacob Neusner in the Forward. It is the Jewish-sponsored institutions that will produce the next generation of rabbis and Jewish educators — not merely the knowledgeable people turned out by the secular academy’s Jewish studies curricula. Students in the Jewish-sponsored academies gain knowledge through the concrete experience of learning in the model of their [...]
The Jewish Review of Books is about to hit the stands. If both Shmuel Rosner and Azzan Yadin have articles in it, who wouldn’t want to subscribe.
This past year Academic Studies Press has published a number of new books in the field of Jewish Studies. They consist both of translations into English of already published works, and new books. Among the translations that they have published is Isaac Heinemann’s The Reasons for the Commandments in Jewish Thought, a translation of the [...]
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