To all of those who are eligible to vote in today’s Presidential Election, go out and vote, and bring a friend, but don’t be tempted to take the free Starbuck’s coffee or any other gift after you have voted, you may be violating both federal and state law. (hat tip) For everything and more [...]
Lecture at JTS:
Modern Myths of Muslim Anti-Semitism
Speaker: Dr. Mark R. Cohen
Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Monday, November 24, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
The Gerson D. Cohen Memorial Lecture
The Yeshiva University Museum has an exhibit of treasures from Erfurt, Germany. (hat tip)
The Yeshiva University Museum provides the only North American venue for an unusually significant exhibition of Medieval gold and silver jewelry, tableware, and rare coins discovered just a decade ago concealed within the foundation of a 12th-century house in Erfurt, Germany, a [...]
“The ‘Girona Genizah’—A Mine of Texts and Historical Documents for the History of Catalan Jews of the Fourteenth Century”
Speaker: Professor Mauro Perani, University of Bologna (Ravenna, Italy).
The event is taking place on Thursday, October 30, 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the
Mendelson Convocation Center.
Prof. Shamma Friedman will be giving a lecture at JTS on Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 3:30 p.m. in the Private Dining Room. The title of the lecture is, “What Does Mt. Sinai have to do with Shemita? – Rabbinic Anticipatory Refutation of the Documentary Hypothesis.” The lecture is open to the public. [...]
While many of you will think that the prohibition of men hearing women sing, Kol Isha, is out-dated and absurd to say the least, for those who are interested, Rabbi David Bigman of Yeshivat ha-Kibbutz ha-Dati has let his opinion be known, permitting it in almost all circumstances. Here is a post in Hebrew [...]
From ha-Safran
The Lander Institute Jerusalem Academic Center will host an Evening Book Review of two recent books by Prof. Daniel Sperber, Darkah Shel Halakhah and Netivot Pesika: Kelim Ve’gisha Le’posek Hahalakhah.
Chairman: Prof Avraham Grossman, Lander Institute
Dr. Iris Braun, Lander Institute, will speak on “The Dilemma of Halakhic
Decisions: Between Individual Rights and Systemic Necessities”
Prof. Aryeh Frimer, [...]
Manuscriptboy recently wrote a post about magic, and for those who didn’t know, it is alive and well. The problem with some believers in, and practitioners of magic, is that they have a hard time understanding that some people just don’t believe in it. Take the following news item. In India, a [...]
Sunday, March 16, 2008, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
“Jewish Renaissance and Revival in America”
A Conference in Memory of Leah Levitz Fishbane, z”l (1974-2007)
Speakers (in order of presentation):
Dr. Eitan Fishbane, Assistant Professor of Jewish Thought, JTS
Dr. Jonathan Sarna, Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, and Director, Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program, Brandeis University [...]
Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies
The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60:
The Scholarly Contributions of NYU Faculty and Alumni
Co-sponsored by the New York University Center for Ancient Studies and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
March 6-7, 2008
Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102
Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Matthew S. Santirocco (Dean, College of Arts and [...]
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