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
NYTimes on Rabbi Berenbaum
Yesterday I noted the passing of Mir rosh yeshivah, Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum. The New York Times obituary cites the AP ...
Rav Shmuel Berenbaum z”l
Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum, the head of the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn, passed away yesterday at the age of 86. Rav ...
Chabad Messianism & Conversion
Recent stories about conversion standards in Israel have revolved around halakhic observance (or the lack thereof), but an interesting case ...
OU Condemns Hate Speech
Kudos to the Orthodox Union for swiftly condemning Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe’s public remarks that Israeli leaders Ehud Omert, Tzipi ...
Lantos to Retire
Congressman Tom Lantos has announced that he’ll be retiring because of illness. Lantos is the only Holocaust survivor ever elected ...
Joshua: On Leadership
Two ideas about leadership jumped out at me recently when I was reading the first chapter of the Book of ...
Charlie Wilson’s Jews
Yesterday, I took in a viewing of Charlie Wilson’s War, the Aaron Sorkin-written, Tom Hanks-acted film about the congressman responsible ...
Politics & Literature
Should novels be political? I’m loving Daniel Handler’s answer in Jewcy’s Book Klatch: “Political” is like “experimental,” “realistic” or thousands ...
Malamud: The Forgotten
From Lee Siegel’s NYT review of the new Bernard Malamud biography by Philip Davis:Paradoxically, the farther he traveled from his ...
Woody is Speechless
The Writers Guild strike is still going, and while after-work TV-watchers are plunged deeper into rerun land, at-work internet watchers ...