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
Here’s $100,000
The five candidates for the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature have been announced. This year’s award is for ...
A Reformed Temple
A small plane crashed into a synagogue in Georgia last night, killing the pilot. The few people inside the synagogue ...
Another Autonomous Jewish State
On the heels of yesterday’s post about the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, comes a report from YNet about another ...
Jewish Autonomous Region
JTA reports: “Officials in the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan in Siberia claim to have built the world’s largest menorah.”Which ...
Rupert Murdoch Believes
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Entertainment Group announced today that it’s signed a deal to buy the religion and spirituality website Beliefnet. ...
One Less Candle
The Jerusalem Post is reporting a fascinating story about a group of Israeli environmentalists who proposed that Jews light one ...
It’s All Our Fault
The holiday spirit has descended upon Christopher Hitchens. What kind of present are we getting?A Hanukkah message, in which he ...
God is a Halakhic Jew
It’s been interesting to monitor the response to our new animated short The Adventures of Todd and God. For the ...
Introducing Todd & God
Hanukkah’s almost here, so we’ve got a gift for you, dear readers: the “pilot” episode of MyJewishLearning.com’s The Adventures of ...
What Hell Smells Like
The Jerusalem Post reports:Reform and Conservative synagogues reek of hell [Gehinom] and a Jew should not even come near their ...