Last night I got back from a wonderful trip to California that I took with our son. We were able to spend a nice amount of time in the San Francisco area and Los Angeles. While in San Francisco we went to the Mission Minyan on Friday night and Chabad of Noe Valley on Shabbat [...]
An exhibition just ended at Lambeth Palace Library in London that featured both a complete Bomberg Talmud and a Gutenberg Bible. Read here about the very interesting history of this copy of the Bomberg Talmud.
There will be a Bone Marrow Drive open to North Americans and Israelis on Wednesday, June 16. We are conducting this drive in search of a bone marrow match for Matt Fenster, a 35 year old father of four young children. Matt was recently diagnosed with Leukemia and must have a bone marrow transplant to [...]
From the Jewish Star (via JTA): An unprecedented effort is under way in the Five Towns, in Riverdale, N.Y., and in Brookline, Mass., to find bone marrow matches for four young people fighting leukemia. In Woodmere, Zach Englander, a 20- year-old Yeshiva University student, was diagnosed six weeks ago with the form of cancer that [...]
This is a conference whose proceedings I would love to see published. GOLDSTEIN-GOREN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR JEWISH THOUGHT BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE JEWISH THOUGHT AND JEWISH BELIEF 18-20 SIVAN 5770 31.5.2010 . 2.6.2010 THE MARCUS FAMILY CAMPUS – CONFERENCE HALL BARKAN ( KENASIM BET) BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV BEER-SHEVA Monday, May [...]
Matt is a good friend of ours and if you could help in any way that would be great. HELP SAVE A LIFE IN OUR COMMUNITY Swab, Donate, Volunteer Bone Marrow Registry Drive for Matt Fenster www.MattFensterCircle.org Matt Fenster is a father of four young children, a husband, a son, and a brother. He is [...]
Below are two takes on the RCA Convention from Morethodoxy. Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky (full post here): A couple of important things did actually happen. Many great rabbis worked very very hard to keep the “big tent” intact, to preserve a reasonable amount of unity within the everybody-except-Chovevai, non-Haredi Orthodox rabbinate. And to their great credit, [...]
This Sunday, March 14, there is a day of study to prepare for Passover at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue. Details can be found here. One of the talks looked particularly interesting. Rabbi Yigal Sklarin, Talmud & Jewish History Teacher, Ramaz: Using Italian Renaissance Art to Understand Halacha: The Laws of Mezuzah in Renaissance Italy
Sometimes you can tell the correctness of someone’s actions by their critic’s statements. Here is a good one. (hat tip) Their principal objection is based on tznius, modesty, in the understanding of Rabbi Avi Shafran, Agudah’s director of public policy. … “Tznius isn’t a mode of dress. It includes the idea that women are demeaned [...]
Rabbi Ethan Tucker will speak on: Core Issues of Jewish Law Thursdays, 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm (March 4, 11, 18) Cost: Free Location: Yeshivat Hadar (within West End Synagogue) -190 Amsterdam Ave @ 69th Street, New York This three part series will provide an overarching theory of and approach to halakhah. The three lectures [...]
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