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
Another AJWS Fellowship
Become an AJWS World Partners Fellow AJWS World Partners Fellowship is awarded to Jewish recent college graduates and young professionals ...
NYTimes on Tova Reich
Tova Reich’s novel My Holocaust has been rapturously praised by most critics, but as I mentioned here and elsewhere I ...
Encyclopedia of Jewish Secularism
Haaretz reports: In the Internet and digital information age, few publishers are willing to take on major publishing projects, like ...
Israel’s Unstable Government
Yesterday I mentioned Gidi Grinstein’s suggestion that many of Israel’s problems are rooted in the instability of its government. Here’s ...
The Problem With Israel
I just got back from a lunchtime speech given by Gidi Grinstein, President of the Reut Institute (“an innovative policy ...
The Impact of Day School
Last week, PEJE (Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education) released its long-awaited study “What Difference Does Day School Make?”.The study ...
Religion in the Public Square
Rabbi Debra Landsberg has posted a thoughtful reply to a comment I posted on her blog about a comment she ...
AJWS Writers’ Fellowship
American Jewish World Service just announced a new writers’ fellowship that they’re launching. Here are the details: American Jewish World ...
High Culture (Brian Schwartz, Super Jew)
Wait. Did I say high culture? I meant…whatever Porky’s is. Seriously. I just saw Porky’s for the first time since ...
Jerry Falwell, Dead at 73
This just in: The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who founded the Moral Majority and built the religious right into a political ...