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
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
Jean Baudrillard, the maddeningly-obscure, but prophetic, French philosopher died earlier this week at the age of 77.Baudrillard wasn’t Jewish. But ...
Morbid Jews
The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...
UJ Accepts Gay Rabbinical Students
As expected, the University of Judaism made the first practical move toward integrating the Conservative movement’s new responsum on homosexuality: ...
New Torah Commentaries
Thanks to our friends at American Jewish World Service and the Jewish Outreach Institute you can now read weekly Torah ...
Female Suicide Bombers
Slate asks the question on everyone’s mind: “If male martyrs can expect to find 72 virgin maidens in paradise when ...
Confronting Jewish Violence
Today is Shushan Purim, the day Purim is celebrated in cities that were “walled” at the time of Joshua. Most ...
Beyond the Canon
In 2000, Harvard professor Ruth Wisse published The Modern Jewish Canon, a book that surveys two centuries of Jewish literature, ...
Who is a Jew?
Well, Ron Jeremy certainly, and on Beliefnet you can find a new interview in which the porn star discusses his ...
Philip Roth Wins
Philip Roth has another award for his trophy case. The AP reports: Philip Roth has won yet another literary prize, ...
Can a Jewish State Be Truly Democratic?
For those of you in the New York area looking for something to do tomorrow night (Feb 27), I’ll be ...