Norman Solomon, the author of The Analytic Movement: Hayyim Soloveitchik and his School and The Talmud: A Selection (Penguin Classics), has published a new book, Torah from Heaven: The Reconstruction of Faith. From the publisher: Traditional Jewish religious belief speaks of a divinely revealed, perfect text, authoritatively expounded. The question this book addresses is one [...]
Rabbi Dov Linzer has an op-ed in today’s New York Times about modesty. The Talmud, the foundation of Jewish law, acknowledges that men can be sexually aroused by women and is indeed concerned with sexual thoughts and activity outside of marriage. But it does not tell women that men’s sexual urges are their responsibility. Rather, [...]
There are two recent publications in Hebrew of translations of works by Abraham Joshua Heschel. The first is a translation of his Yiddish book on Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, whose modified English version is A Passion for Truth. A translation of the first chapter can be found here. A second book is a collection of his [...]
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.
Prof. Michael Schwarz, who recently received the Israel Prize, has passed away. Schwarz is best known for his recent translation into Hebrew of Maimonides’s Guide for the Perplexed. יהיה זכרו ברוך.
Ynet has an article (Hebrew) about Roni Weinstein’s new book, Shavru et ha-Keilim (“They Broke the Vessels”). Weinstein’s book is subtitled “The Kabbalah and Jewish Modernity.” In this book Weinstein claims that modern religious Judaism cannot be understand without reference to the Kabbalah. He is quoted as saying: The Kabbalah is like a bomb that [...]
Tomer Persico has posted about a conference next week at Haifa University on the book Torat ha-Melekh.
American Jewish University has published a number of installments of “Walking With…” They have included “Walking With God,” “Walking With the Jewish Calendar,” with the latest being “Walking With Mitzvot.” All of the units include a short discussion of a topic along with sources for learning and questions for discussion. For the latest installment I [...]
Last week’s Musaf Shabbat of Makor Rishon had two articles that will no doubt be discussed for quite some time. Both articles are in Hebrew, and in about a month when I have more time I will translate them if no one will have already done so. The first article was by Ariel Picard, On [...]
From Ynet: Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced that Professor Michael Schwartz is the recipient of the Israel Prize for Israel Studies for 2011. Schwartz was chosen for his internationally-known expertise in Medieval Jewish philosophy, and especially in “The Guide for the Preplexed,” (Moreh Nevokhim), which was written by the Rambam (Maimonides). See this article about [...]
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