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
Campus Wars
Today’s New York Times looks at the latest battle over the Middle East on college campuses: a documentary film, Obsesssion: ...
The Book of Mensch
Hirhurim’s Gil Student has just published a review in the Jewish Press of Imrei Baruch (The Sayings of Baruch), a ...
Walter Benjamin’s Mix Tape
A few weeks ago, I blogged about Walter Benjamin, the great German Jewish intellectual, whose writings have become canonical in ...
The Guru of Global Warming
If you haven’t yet peeked at David Plotz’s Slate feature Blogging the Bible, yesterday’s edition is a good place to ...
Evangelicals and Israel
Obviously, a lot has been written about evangelical support for Israel. Yet from all the reading and talking I’ve done ...
Chief Rabbi Says “No” to Fur
Cold temperatures have finally arrived in much of the United States, but Israel’s Ashkenazic chief rabbi has just nixed the ...
Money in the Academy
The Jewish Week is reporting that major donors at Brandeis University are pulling their financial support to show their displeasure ...
More Science & Judaism
For those of you who still can’t get enough science and Judaism reading, check out Noah Efron’s recently published Judaism ...
Readers Respond
This week’s Jewish Week includes three letters to the editor about Rabbi Michael Broyde’s article that I blogged about yesteday. ...
Dear Rabbi Broyde
In last week’s Jewish Week, Rabbi Michael Broyde — rabbi of the Young Israel of Toco Hills (Atlanta) and professor ...