Daniel Septimus

Daniel Septimus is executive director of Sefaria. Previously, he served as CEO and editor-in-chief of My Jewish Learning.


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Articles by Daniel Septimus

Hashem and Homosexuality

The Jewish Press just published a poignant (and sad) letter from an Orthodox Jewish man about his struggles with homosexuality. ...

The Dual Loyalty Question

Looks like American Jews aren’t the only ones who spend the aftermath of an election counting how many Jews were ...

Michael Richards: Kind of Jewish

Is Michael Richards Jewish? That’s the question that was on too-many Jews’ minds after Seinfeld‘s Kramer went on his recent ...

Reviewing Allen Ginsberg

Good book criticism has been virtually exiled from the popular press, and the New York Times Book Review — which ...

East Meets West

This morning, I blogged about the poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali and his translator, Peter Cole. In July, I wrote ...

Important Poetry

Thanks to Jewschool for highlighting this amazing video of poet Taha Muhammad Ali at the Dodge Poetry Festival earlier this ...

Remembering Rabbi Waldenberg

The Jerusalem Post reports:Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg, one of the most respected halachic authorities of the modern era and a ...

Native Americans & Jews

It’s Thanksgiving reading time. And for us at MJL, that’s got to start with David Koffman’s fascinating article about the ...

Karaites at the GA

Our homepage this week features an article about the Karaites, a sect of Judaism that rejected the authority of the ...

Jewcy: The Early Reviews

Jewish bloggers have written their first reviews of the recently launched Jewcy.com and they’re not being generous.– Ariel over at ...

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