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Talmud in the New World
Since the early decades of the twentieth century, the bond between academic Talmud and America has been a strong one. To name but a few highlights, Julius Kaplan published his pioneering work on the...
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Footnote at the New York Film Festival
As Menachem Mendel has just posted, Joseph Cedar’s Footnote will be playing at the NY film festival on Monday, October 10 at 9:00pm, and Tuesday, October 11, at 6:00pm, at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tulley...
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The Burning of the Talmud in Rome on Rosh Hashanah, 1553- Guest Post by...
Last Monday I received a most fascinating email from Chief Rabbi Riccardo di Segni, MD, of Rome, with a picture of a plaque unveiled just the previous afternoon in the market place of Rome to...
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Captivated
Last night, Dr. Youval Rotman of Tel Aviv University lead the inaugural discussion of Hebrew University’s Group for the Study of Late Antiquity. The Group, which was started by Uriel Simonsohn and I...
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Vered Noam on Josephus and the Rabbis
Tomorrow at 10:30 Prof. Vered Noam will deliver a paper entitled “The Story of King Jannaeus in b. Qiddushin 66a—A Pharisaic Reply to Sectarian Polemic”. The lecture is part of the Orion Center‘s...
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The Afghani ‘Geniza’
A few months ago, news broke in the Israeli media of an important manuscript trove that was discovered in Afghanistan. A spate of articles appeared in the press, each one covering just a bit more than...
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The Talmud Blog Hosts Zvi Septimus
It’s 10:00pm in New York, and, like many others, I’m watching the debate. But there’s one thing that I can’t stop thinking about, and that’s the lecture that I just heard at Drisha by Zvi Septimus,...
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The Talmud Blog Hosts Michal Bar Asher-Siegal
In a beautifully appointed Jerusalem home, and framed by some Avigdor Arikha, Michal Bar Asher-Siegal led an extremely animated discussion that compared many of the motifs comprising the Bavli’s Resh...
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The Talmud Blog Live: Dr. Ron Naiweld on “The Torah as the Divine Logos in...
We are excited to announce the Talmud Blog’s third “live” event, which will take place next Tuesday, December 25th, 7:30 PM at Ohel Moshe 5, Jerusalem. We’ll be hosting our very own Dr. Ron Naiweld, a...
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The Talmud Blog Live- Ron on “The Torah as the Divine Logos in Tannaitic...
After over a year and a half of blogging, last night, for the first time ever, all of the Talmud Blog’s editors and contributors were actually in the same place at the same time. And what better reason...
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Conferences
With Shavuot behind us, no holidays on the horizon until September, and summer break in many other parts of the world, it’s high time for conference season here in the Holy Land. Here’s a list of what...
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Meeting the Bavli at the National Library: Notes from an Uncultured...
“Pumbedita & Vilna in Silicon Valley” is the title of the opening session in a series of five public meetings at the National Library of Israel. The series aims to investigate the relevance of the...
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Discovering the “Talmudic DNA” at the National Library
Last Wednesday night, a mixed group of retirees, middle-aged Jerusalemites, and younger students convened at the National Library of Israel for the second event of the series “Meetings in the Bavli,”...
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“What does the Talmud Have to Offer Israeli Culture?” Yair Lipshitz and...
Over the past two years of blogging here at the new Talmud Blog, it has been more than a pleasure for us to meet interested readers from all over the world and various walks of life. While most of...
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Livestream: The Talmud and its World
Check back here at 5pm Jerusalem Time (10am Eastern Standard Time) for a Live Stream of the fourth Talmud blog event: The Talmud and its World: Reading the Bavli Alongside its Late Antique Neighbors A...
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The Talmud Blog Live- David Brodsky on “Rabbinic Literature and Its...
It is our pleasure to announce an upcoming series of classes that we are presenting along with the Drisha Institute for Jewish Education in New York. On Wednesdays October 30th, November 6th, 13th and...
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The Talmud Blog LIVE- Tonight!
For those who won’t be able to make it in person, we’ll be live streaming the first session of a four part series taught by David Brodsky of Brooklyn College on “Rabbinic Literature and Its...
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The Talmud Blog Hosts A. Becker and I. Rosen-Zvi
UPDATE: THE EVENT CAN BE VIEWED HERE The Talmud Blog Live: Adam Becker in Conversation with Ishay Rosen-Zvi on the Evil Inclination in Syriac Literature and its Implications for the […]
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The Talmud Blog Live- A. Becker and I. Rosen-Zvi
Live from Jerusalem: Professors Adam Becker and Ishay Rosen-Zvi on the Evil Inclination in Syriac Literature and its Implications for the Bavli! We’ll be starting at 7:30 PM Jerusalem time (12:30 in […]
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The Talmud Blog and Digital Humanities Israel
Joint meeting of the Talmud Blog and Digital Humanities Israel Next Thursday evening, June 26th, The Talmud Blog and “Digital Humanities Israel” will be holding a joint meeting at the “Open Hub” of The...
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