Menachem Mendel

Web Yeshiva, whose Rosh Yeshiva is Rabbi Chaim Brovender, is now offering free classes. Web Yeshiva is one of the most extensive site offering Jewish learning online. See the extensive list of offerings here.

Posted on December 1st, 2011 under Online resources, Talmud Torah. Comments Off

Dr. Josh Kulp, author of the The Schechter Haggadah: Art, History and Commentary, prepares a Mishnah Yomit under the auspices of the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem. Mishnah Yomit has just begun a new cycle of learning, starting with Masechet Berachot. You can subscribe to daily emails or read archived ones here. Here’s an example of [...]

Posted on November 6th, 2011 under Mishnah, Online resources. Comments Off

Haaretz has a nice article about the Friedberg Geniza Project and its work on the digitization of Geniza documents. (hat tip) The article includes a lot of information about the current work being done by Prof. Yaacov Choueka, his son Roni, and other computer scientists and scholars of Rabbinic Literature. The first is how they [...]

Posted on October 23rd, 2011 under Computers, Online resources, Rabbinic Literature, Talmud Study. Comments: 3

A friend on Facebook linked to Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef’s website. It includes MP3′s (not many of good quality), videos, etc.

Posted on September 26th, 2011 under Jewish Law, Online resources, Rabbinic Authority, Rabbinic Literature. Comments Off

One of my favorite books on the parashah is Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s Hebrew book on parashat ha-shavuah. Israeli Education Channel 23 has posted online a number of older programs. One of them is a program on on the book of Genesis that featured Yeshayahu Leibowitz. The program can be found here.

Posted on June 23rd, 2011 under Bible Studies, Online resources. Comments Off

On the Main Lane has a guest post about research using Talmud MSS. The post includes this bit of news about the Lieberman Institute of Talmud Research’s Database of Talmud MSS. A powerful resource for Talmudic research is now available freely on-line. The latest version of Eidei Nusah. This site contains the text of almost [...]

Posted on May 11th, 2011 under Manuscripts, Online resources, Talmud, Talmud Study. Comments: 1

The most recent issue of the Journal of Textual Reasoning is devoted to The Female Ruse: Women’s Subversive Voice in Biblical and Rabbinic Texts. Here are the articles that appear in this issue: From Veils To Goatskins – The Female Ruse in Genesis Rachel Adelmann Matan, The Sadie Rennert Women’s Institute for Torah Study When [...]

Posted on March 16th, 2011 under Jewish Law, Midrash, Online resources, Rabbinic Literature, Talmud, Talmud Study, Textual Studies. Comments Off

Rabbi Dov Linzer has started a new blog on the Daf Yomi, Daily Daf. The website contains a written transcription of Rabbi Linzer’s Daf Yomi shiur, along with archived audio and video recordings. There is also an option to watch live streaming video of the shiur each morning.

Posted on February 25th, 2011 under Online resources, Talmud, Talmud Study. Comments Off

Looking for that lost piece of Jewish music? Try the Judaica Sound Archives that is hosted by Florida Atlantic University. It is heavy on the Yiddish music, although it contains lots of other genres. (hat tip)

Posted on February 13th, 2011 under Online resources. Comments: 4