Tickets for the screening of the Talmudic comedy Footnote at the New York Film Festival go on sale tomorrow, Monday, Sept. 12. Footnote will be screened on Monday, Oct. 10 at 9 pm, and on Tuesday, Oct. 11 at 6 pm. See here for details. What’s an appropriate place for an after-party? Biegeleisen? JTS Rare [...]
Lost Texts: A Graduate Student Conference April 29th, 2012 – New York, NY The Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary Much of Jewish history can be viewed as a struggle between competing textual traditions, often motivated by the reintroduction and reappropriation of lost texts. The redacted texts of the biblical and rabbinic canons; the [...]
In Jerusalem from Sept. 19-22 will be Festival ha-Piyyut. Here is a list of performances and the schedule can be found here. For those who are able to attend, enjoy.
From the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization: Join Dr. Zvi Zohar, Chauncy Stillman Professor of Sephardic Law and Ethics at Bar Ilan University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, for a four-part study group on conversion in Jewish law. Of all Judaic rituals, that of giyyur (conversion) [...]
The conference at Haifa University on the book Torat ha-Melekh has been cancelled after protests from numerous quarters over the author being invited to speak. (hat tip)
The Talmud-themed movie Footnote will be screened at the New York Film Festival which runs from Sept. 30-Oct. 16. I do not think that the exact times that it will be screened are presently available, but tickets for the greater public go on sale Sept. 12. (Jpost)
Daat Rabim, the blog of Reshet Bataei ha-Midrash be-Yisrael, has posted a list (Hebrew) of study options for Tisha B’av. Some of these are taking place at numerous tent protest sites.
This past December The National Library of Israel had an evening devoted to the place of Talmud within Israeli society. The participants were Rabbi Yuval Sherlow, Drs. Ruchama Weiss, and Yair Eldan. The library has posted the discussion on Youtube. The first part can be found below and the other parts can be found on [...]
Tomer Persico has posted information about what looks like a very interesting seminar. If you are going to be in Israel this summer, it looks like a worthwhile way to spend a day. The seminar is on 7 Av/August 7.
Lee I. Levine is giving a series of lectures at JTS during July. Lee is a fantastic speaker and if you have any remote interest in the topic I highly recommend attending the lectures. More information as well as how to RSVP can be found here.
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