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
Shameless!
This just in: After all that…President Bush just commuted Scooter Libby’s prison sentence. Shocked? I am. But I should know ...
More on Austria
I returned yesterday from a four-day trip to Vienna, which I blogged about briefly last week. As I mentioned in ...
Duvid Crockett: King of Delancey Street
Jennifer Grey sings her grandfather, Mickey Katz’s, “Duvid Crocket”…
In Vienna
I’m currently in Vienna as part of a delegation of (youngish) Jews from New York. The trip is being organized ...
Chutzpah Alert
Ynet News recently reported the following story about Rabbi Avraham Yosef: During a radio show on which he replies to ...
Debating Peoplehood
Over at Jewcy, editor Joey Kurtzman and JTS provost Jack Wertheimer recently concluded a heated debate about the state of ...
Democracy and the Internet
A few weeks ago I wrote about the internet’s potential to help democratize Judaism. I hadn’t seen these lines from ...
This is not kosher, Shlomo!
A passing reference to last year’s Morgan Freeman movie 10 Items or Less reminded me of a hilarious short film ...
The Future (or Death) of Theology
The other day, Meredith blogged about Elliot Cosgrove’s Forward op-ed about the unfortunate decline of Jewish theology. But I’d like ...
My Holocaust, Part III
I’ve already blogged about my negative response to Tova Reich’s novel My Holocaust and the NYTimes’ similar critique.And, indeed, the ...