From the Jpost. Many of the country’s most influential rabbinical arbiters have gradually changed their minds from considering the woman who undergoes in-vitro fertilization (IVF) with donor eggs the baby’s halachic mother, to regarding the donor – even if she is not Jewish – as the real mother.
Accordance, the unbelievable Mac program for scholars of Biblical and related literature, has just announced the first taste of a Rabbinics bundle which is in the works. Now available for download and purchase are Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael, based on the Munich Codex provided by the Primary Textual Witnesses Project (PTWP) of Bar-Ilan University under the [...]
Hebrew Books has a new feature which allows one to view a page of Talmud in PDF format along with commentaries. Details can be found here. This doesn’t seem to work with Firefox on a Mac and on Safari it doesn’t have all the features. The PDF scan is from a new printing of the [...]
Hebrewbooks has posted some more books to their website. See some titles pointed out at Ishim ve-Shitot. After a quick look over the list I have a few more books to add. The first is the important work by the Egyptian rabbi Raphael Aharon ben Shimon, Nahar Mitzrayim (part one, two) about the customs and [...]
For those with an iPhone, from the App Store: The Talmud Bavli with Rashi
Via the Daily Dish. The installation ‘bios [bible]‘ consists of an industrial robot, which writes down the bible on rolls of paper. The machine draws the calligraphic lines with high precision. Like a monk in the scriptorium it creates step by step the text. … Starting with the old testament and the books of Moses [...]
I have written before about the problem of privacy in the Internet Age, and things are just getting worse. Over at the informative NYT’s tech blog Bits there is a disturbing post describing how ISP’s (Internet Service Providers) are thinking about possibly monitoring your internet traffic and supplying advertising based upon your internet usage and [...]
Two more things from the Internet Archive: 1. Dibre ha-riboth [microform]. Matters of controversy, a rabbinical disputation between Zerahiah ha-Levi and Abraham ben David. Published from a manuscript (unicum) in the possession of the Jewish theological seminary of America (here) 2. A Jewish Calendar for Sixty-Four Years (here- It was printed in London and is [...]
As is apparent to anyone who tried to use the links in my recent post on books digitized by Microsoft’s Live Search, accessing digitized books that have been posted online isn’t always very successful. One step towards making it easier is Internet Archive. Internet archive was founded “with the purpose of offering permanent access for [...]
For those who want to read more about Large-Scale Digitization Initiatives (LSDI’s), there is a recently published white paper here. The summary can be found here. The paper discusses such topics as digital storage quality, access to digital collections, the commercial aspect of many LSDI’s (see more here) and the impact of digital collections on [...]
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