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
The Insanity Defense
I wrote the following article about Woody Allen’s The Insanity Defense for my Jerusalem Post books column, but it turned ...
The Anonymous Irish Rabbi
JTA has reported that a “leading rabbi in Ireland” has criticized the Irish Film and Television Academy for an award ...
Muhammad on Wikipedia
The Wikipedia entry on Muhammad contains a 15th century illustration of the Muslim prophet preaching the Quran. But iconography like ...
From the Academy: David Shneer
In the second installment of “From the Academy,” Dr. David Shneer, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center ...
PresenTense Institute for Creative Zionism
Our friends Aharon and Ariel want you to know that applications are now being accepted for the Summer 2008 PresenTense ...
Voting and the Homosexual Agenda
In anticipation of today’s primaries, Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada ...
Reading Mordecai Kaplan
I stumbled upon an interesting passage in Mordecai Kaplan’s Judaism As a Civilization that articulates one of the pressing questions ...
(Another) Foreskin’s Lament
Erica Jong has never held her tongue, so why would she when talking about her grandson’s circumcision? Answer: She wouldn’t. ...
The Next Big Idea
When philanthropist Charles Bronfman announced his intention to fund a two-year visiting chair at Brandeis for someone who could come ...
Israel Academia Monitor
Last week, YNet reprinted an article by Aaron Klein, which purports to be about anti-Zionist positions held by Israeli academics, ...