The Haftarah of Parashat Shemot
…the haftarah in the “Emet” piyyut of R’ Shelomo Suleiman al-Sinjari, but he vacillates between using haftarot from the Babylonian custom and the haftarot from the triennial cycle. See The…
Marc B. Shapiro – Forgery and the Halakhic Process
…Megadim). . . . Prof. S.Z. Leiman informs me he found other irregularities in Auerbach’s historical works.”[10] The late Prof. Israel M. Ta-Shma assumed that Auerbach’s Eshkol is a fourteenth-century…
Is Tu-beshevat a Sabbatian Holiday?
…as well as a bunch of articles in the journal Hechal HaBeshet. Rabbi Dr. Leiman in his latest article in Ohr haMizrach has a footnote with all the citations. [R….
Was Professor Saul Lieberman “Orthodox” or “Conservative”? [1]
…at JTS should be sh’lomei emunei yisrael and that the students and graduates should beshomrei torah u-mitzvot ka-rauy v’khayaut.” Lieberman did not care about labels but rather about substance, and in this…
The “Doctored” Medical Diploma of Samuel, the Son of Menasseh Ben Israel: Forgery or “For Jewry”?
…with Griffith’s analysis assume the answer to be a resounding yes, some even labelling it a “brazen” forgery.[33] There is no evidence of any suspicion of the document’s veracity during…
Depicting Difference: The Tower of Babel and the Language of Sacred Art
…Firstly, the labeling of the images aligns with Jewish tradition, specifically referencing Dor Haflagah. Secondly, Bruegel’s comprehensive visual representation notably omits any mention of violence. The interpretation that linguistic confusion…
Elliott Horowitz – “”Most of all you’ve got to hide it from the kids…’ Reading Esther before Bed”
…explained away” by some, but also “exaggerated and falsely labelled” by others.” The best solution, he believed was to let readers, young and old, judge for themselves. There were other…
A Conversation With Professor Marcin Wodziński on Hasidism
…know. “The ruling party is right-wing, and in Europe right-wing parties are very closely associated with anti-Semitic ideologies, but they are very wary of being labeled antiSemitic. For this reason,…
Review of Dr. Michael Stanislawski, “A Murder in Lemberg: Politics, Religion, and Violence in Modern Jewish History”
…and label it as a death. He singles out the publishing house Mossad HaRav Kook and lays claim they also deliberately got it wrong. [2] Setting aside the possiblity that…
An Incident of “Pilegesh B’Givah” in 19th Century Germany
…Tearing off this “warning label” enabled the book to be sold, something that most likely happened over time to many books that were donated to libraries. ___________________________________________________ [1] Friedberg, History…
The Satmar Rebbe and a Censored Mishnah Berurah, and R. Baruch Rabinovich of Munkács
…hatred. Again I ask, if such a video surfaced from a leftist camp, there would be no hesitation in labeling it anti-Semitic. So why are people hesitant to conclude that…
Fixing a Typesetting Error in Order to Understand The View of the Mishnah Berurah on Women Wearing Tefillin
…exempt from all mitzvot, including tefillin, and he lacks the basic credibility that even a Jewish woman has to label food items as prohibited or permissible, so two of the three…
From Print to Pixel: Digital Editions of the Talmud Bavli
…helps to break up the passages when viewing with no section breaks. While Al-Hatorah also includes hyperlinked sections, it does not explicitly label which section is which, unlike Sefaria. Therefore,…
The Lost Library by Dan Rabinowitz and the “Burial of Souls” by Yehuda Leib Katznelson: Different Expressions of the Same Sentiment
…special shelves were built from floor to ceiling to line all the available walls. Each book was bound in special hand-crafted leather and labeled with gold leaf. Upon completion of…
Do We Cut Off or Bury One’s Head in the Sand?
…willing to label any perceived enemy of Jews as deserving of the harsh consequences of Amalek. Some of these examples are rather disturbing. After dealing with the Book of Esther…