New ‘Reflections,’ Hartman Institute E-Magazine of Ideas, Now Online The newest issue of Reflections, the Shalom Hartman Institute electronic magazine of ideas, is now online. Among the articles: Israeli Society and the ‘Society of Learners’ by Professors Shlomo Naeh, Zvi Zohar and Elhanan Reiner who discuss the place of Torah scholars within the Jewish People [...]
Article alert: Benjamin Shmueli, Corporal Punishment of Children in Jewish Law: Traditional Approaches Meet Modern Trends: A Comparative Study
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 that there [...]
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 best students of Talmud [...]
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 that some Jewish [...]
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 many [...]
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 what he wrote. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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