Daniel Septimus

Daniel Septimus is executive director of Sefaria. Previously, he served as CEO and editor-in-chief of My Jewish Learning.

Articles by Daniel Septimus

Writing in The Independent about Shalom Auslander’s Foreskin’s Lament, reviewer William Sutcliffe notes: If there is a defining thread that ...

It seems the campaign to paint Barack Obama as a candidate that’s bad for the Jews/Israel is not over. I ...

I was looking for an article on Jewish customs, minhagim, on MyJewishLearning and, lo and behold, there wasn’t one. Which ...

Israel experienced an earthquake last Friday, registering at 5.3 on the Richter Scale. What caused this earthquake? Whatever you do, ...

From our friends at Keshet:Regional Training Institutes for Jewish Educators May 18-20, 2008 Atlanta, GA July 13-15, 2008 Cleveland, OH ...

Jewish bioethicists, across the denominational spectrum, tend to consider that cessation of breathing (which is connected to brain stem activity) ...

It’s well worth reading Yair Sheleg’s profile of Talmud scholar and recent Israel Prize recipient David Weiss Halivni. Among the ...

Talking about the decline of Jewish Peoplehood was all the rage in 2007. But the debate between Jewcy’s Joey Kurtzman ...

In this week’s installment of â€œFrom the Academy,â€? Dr. Judith Hauptman, E. Billi Ivry Professor of Talmud and Rabbinic Culture ...

The Jewish Book Council announced the winner of the second annual Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature today. The Rohr ...