Menachem Mendel

Article alert: Benjamin Shmueli, Corporal Punishment of Children in Jewish Law: Traditional Approaches Meet Modern Trends: A Comparative Study

Posted on February 10th, 2010 under Comparative Law, Israel, Jewish Law, New Articles. Comments: None

The journal Zion has recently published an issue devoted to the study of Jewish history in Israel. It includes a number of very interesting historiographical studies by a number of scholars about how Israeli scholarship on certain historical periods has changed (or maybe not) over the years. One thing that I noticed was [...]

Posted on October 30th, 2009 under Academia, Ancient Judaism, Israel, Jewish History, New Articles, Rabbinic Literature, Talmud, Talmud Study. Comments: 1

The Cambridge Companion to Philo has recently been published. (hat tip) It contains a chapter by David Winston on “Philo and Rabbinic Literature.” Winston is the editor of Philo of Alexandria: The Contemplative Life, Giants and Selections. I also once heard, that according to Saul Lieberman, he was one of the [...]

Posted on June 19th, 2009 under Ancient Judaism, New Articles. Comments: 1

Malcolm Gladwell has another one of his eye opening articles at the New Yorker. He writes about insides vs. outsiders, focusing on the figure of Sidney Weinberg, a former head of Goldman Sachs. While reading his article, I kind of thought about the Jewish people as the perpetual outsiders. I am sure [...]

Posted on November 7th, 2008 under Jewish History, New Articles. Comments: None

Not that I read Italian, but I wonder if there were any articles in English in the newest volume of Materia giudaica, edited by Mauro Perani. Not only are there a number of articles in English, but they are also available online here. This volume includes in English, in addition to what seem like [...]

Posted on October 2nd, 2008 under Hebrew, High Holy Days, New Articles. Comments: 1

Hirhurim has a list of the articles that appear in the new issue of Meorot. I just wanted to comment on one of them. R. Yaakov Love wrote on “Inviting a Gentile on Yom Tov.” For those interested in the question, I recommend his article, and I wanted to add something to [...]

Posted on September 29th, 2008 under Jewish Law, Jewish-Gentile Relations, New Articles. Comments: None

Yehudah D. Galinsky has an article in the new JQR, 98/3, Summer 2008, “On Popular Halakhic Literature and the Jewish Reading Audience in Fourteenth-Century Spain.” From the abstract,
The thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was not an auspicious period for the Jews of Europe. In contrast, the Jewish communities of Christian Spain seem to have been [...]

Posted on September 26th, 2008 under Middle Ages, New Articles, Rabbinic Literature. Comments: None

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 [...]

Posted on September 21st, 2008 under Critical Scholarship, Jewish Studies, New Articles. Comments: None

The most recent issue of the Reconstructionist is devoted to denominationalism. It includes articles by David Ellenson and Arnold Eisen. You can download the issue here.

Posted on July 9th, 2008 under New Articles. Comments: None