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
God Hates Brady Quinn
Or at least He likes former Ohio State wide receiver Ted Ginn Jr. more. Or at least that’s what Ginn ...
Falling Man
I just received a copy of Don DeLillo’s new novel, Falling Man, which will be published in mid-May. DeLillo is ...
Fein: Circumcision is Fine
In this week’s Forward, Leonard Fein takes on the anti-circumcision crowd (and makes a few jokes along the way):Google “circumcisionâ€? ...
More Englander
Some more notes on last night’s Nathan Englander/Ben Karlin conversation.– Karlin was, for the most part, hilarious (which should be ...
Jew Englander Jew (cf. Judaism; Jewish)
Last night, at the New York Public Library, Nathan Englander conducted his first reading/program for his new novel, The Ministry ...
Israeli Art
This Yom Haatzmaut, Israeli artists have a lot to celebrate. As JTA’s Ben Harris recently reported, Israeli art is doing ...
Money For Nothing
Congratulations to MJL contributor Saul Austerlitz on the publications of his first book, Money for Nothing: A History of the ...
Anti-Semitic Liturgy
In light of Eli Stern’s op-ed about interfaith dialogue that I blogged about yesterday, this news story about Orthodox Christians ...
Klinghoffer Watch
Thanks to LastTrumpet over at Jewschool for weighing in with a critique of David Klinghoffer’s latest Forward op-ed. It’s hard ...
Fundamentalist Relativism
In this week’s Jewish Week, Rabbi Eliyahu Stern addresses an issue I raised a few weeks ago in reference to ...