She is from New York. She is Jewish. She is a woman.
There’s a must-read obituary in today’s New York Times. Rosalyn S. Yalow won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1977. She was the product of a Bronx public school who had to overcome adversity throughout...
View ArticleJewish Law Association Conference-Summer 2012
The Jewish Law Association 17th International Conference July 30-August 2, 2012 Yale University Call for Papers: Location and schedule: The Jewish Law Association in conjunction with Yale University...
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Conference on Torat ha-Melekh at Hebrew University
A number of months ago a conference on the book Torat ha-Melekh that was scheduled to take place at Haifa University was cancelled. There is a similar conference scheduled to take place next week, Dec....
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Conference on Torat ha-Melekh at Hebrew U. Cancelled [updated]
It seems as if the conference on Torat ha-Melekh that is suppose to take place at Hebrew University this evening has been cancelled [update: maybe not]. A friend was kind enough to send me the...
View ArticleWorkshop on Ancient Religion and Modern Technology
The Judaic Studies department at Brown University will be hosting a workshop on Ancient Religion and Modern Technology that will take place on February 13-14. The schedule and information can be found...
View Article“Militant Feminists” at the Rackman Center
Just when you thought the Rackman Center for the Advancement of Women’s Status at Bar-Ilan University wasn’t going to be attacked any more, the following from Arutz Sheva. MK Yulia Shamalov-Berkovich...
View ArticleJewish Law Association Call for Papers–Jewish Law: The Next Generation
Borrowed from the Legal Theory Blog: The Jewish Law Association is now accepting applications from graduate students, law students, and other emerging scholars, to participate on a plenary panel at the...
View ArticleVatican and Oxford Libraries to Digitize MSS and Books for Posting Online
Great news: (hat tip) The Oxford University and Vatican libraries are to jointly digitise 1.5m pages of ancient texts and make them available free online. The libraries said the digitised collections...
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Is the Term Palestinian Talmud Offensive
Samuel Lebens writes the following at Haaretz: Recently, I helped establish the Association for the Philosophy of Judaism. Last month, we held an online discussion. The scholars we invited to lead the...
View ArticleGot Hebrew?
From Haaretz: Tempers are still boiling over a conference about Israel studies that took place this summer, in which speakers were initially asked to lecture in English. Though the organizers of the...
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