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
Covering Up at the Beach
MJL recently got an interesting email from a woman designing a line of modest swimwear. Thought I’d share: Shalom…I am ...
God in Search of Facebook
Apparently, Abraham Joshua Heschel has a Facebook page. I want him to be my friend. But what if he says ...
Reading A.M. Klein
In my latest column for the Jerusalem Post, I examine the work of a wonderful, though virtually forgotten, North American ...
Bringing Down Rubashkin’s
Apparently, Agriprocessors/Rubashkin’s — the largest glatt kosher slaughterhouse in the world — is in trouble again.The PETA-challenged company issued a ...
Steinhardt: Hebrew Charter Schools are the Answer
For months we’ve been hearing about the Areivim Fund, the Michael Steinhardt-led, $100 million fund for…something.Now we’re getting some clues ...
More on the GA and da Young Folk
JTA’s Jacob Berkman has written up a detailed article about the “youth-focused” sessions at the GA. He quotes me criticizing ...
From the GA: Condi Speaks
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice just finished her address to the GA. She did everything right that Howard Dean did ...
From the GA: Are We Too Narcissistic?
For years, the UJC has been promising to give “the younger generation” a more prominent public role at the GA. ...
The GA: Howard Dean Bombs
For the next couple of days, I’m in Nashville at the United Jewish Communities General Assembly — the annual mega-conference ...
Jesus and Halakha
I was recently researching some of the ritual practices of Jews for Jesus and stumbled upon the website of the ...