Daniel Septimus

Welcome to the first installment of “From the Academy,” in which I (will hopefully) check in with Jewish Studies professors ...

Just a day after Tu Bishvat comes word that the United States continues to receive poor grades on environmental issues. ...

Most of my conversations about the presidential primaries have been about the Democratic field. But Tom over at Blogs of ...

Israeli cinema took another step forward this morning when Joseph Cedar’s Beaufort was nominated for an Academy Award, Best Foreign ...

The ever-insightful Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein has an interesting and sobering post over at Cross-Currents about the Spinka Hasid tax fraud ...

There’s an old saying “Man plans and God laughs,” but recently I realized that, in the Bible, it’s God who ...

With primary season in full swing, I thought I’d poll you, dear readers, on who you think you’ll be voting ...

No joke. Heeb magazine’s humor editor David Deutsch takes on Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna in an op-ed in this week’s ...

Lazer Gurkow recently published an article on Chabad.org about the Lubavitch presence in Hebron. Gurkow notes the apparent irony of ...

This month’s issue of Esquire cites a funny — and oddly insightful — description of the Jewish condition from…um…Roseanne: When ...