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
New Jewish Studies Fellowship
The Forward reports: The Foundation for Jewish Culture, in partnership with the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, recently announced ...
Is JTA Out of Touch?
Over at Cross-Currents, Eytan Kobre has referenced a recent JTA report as proof that the secular Jewish media doesn’t understand ...
MyIsraeliteLearning.com
An email we received from a concerned reader of MJL: I noticed you do not mention Israelite or Ephraimite as ...
Great Blog + James Kugel
I’ve been planning to write about the very excellent blog “And the Enlightened Ones Shall Shine,” known as XGH, for ...
Dying with Dignity
The most recent issue of Moment magazine has a powerful and moving article by Rabbi David Wolpe about his conversations ...
Even the ADL Must be Cringing
Few things make us more uncomfortable than potentially dubious claims of antisemitism. One thing that does: obviously dubious claims of ...
On “Orthodox Bashing”
Last weekend’s Jewish Week contained an op-ed by Sherri Mandell that seemed to want to make a point about “Orthodox-bashing” ...
The Motion
JTA is reporting something about an imaginary motion for a one-state solution to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What they’re reporting ...
Ernst Ehrlich z”l
Historian and Jewish theologian Ernst Ehrlich passed away more than a week ago. I didn’t blog about his death until ...
The Zookeeper’s Wife
Diane Ackerman’s book The Zookeeper’s Wife — which details how Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who ran the Warsaw Zoo, hid ...