Books

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e-TiM: Rabbi Yosef Karo and the Making of the Shulhan Arukh

Rabbi Yosie Levine

Rabbi Yosef Karo and the Making of the Shulhan Arukh Rabbi Yosie Levine Wednesdays, February 1 - 22 1:00pm Eastern Who was Rabbi Yosef Karo? What did he set out to accomplish with the publication of his halakhic works? And how did the Shulhan Arukh…

Program

Dec 28, 2022

e-TiM: The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews

Michelle Margolis Chesner

This three-part series will take place on Tuesdays at 8:30 pm Eastern from May 3-18. What does it mean to be the People of the Book? Texts have been essential to the Jewish people for millennia. The material, books, and scrolls in which these…

Program

Apr 5, 2022

e-TiM: Megillat Rut: Recognition and Redemption

Simi Peters

This six-part series will take place on Mondays at 1:00pm Eastern (8:00pm in Israel) from April 25 to May 30. In this series, we will do a close reading of Megillat Rut, exploring the major themes of the book and its connections to the rest of…

Program

Apr 4, 2022

Not In Heaven: Torah in Human Hands

Dr. Shnayer Leiman, Eric Lawee

Not In Heaven: Torah in Human Hands

Program

Jun 9, 2020

Solomon Schechter and the Modern Discovery of the Cairo Genizah

Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich

The People and the Book: Annual Conference on Tanach (2016).

Class

Apr 5, 2016

The Hertz Chumash United Us

Rabbi Jay Kelman

During shul this past week, I was reading the notes of the Hertz Chumash, as I often do. This likely puts me in small company as the Hertz Chumash has gone the way—pardon the expression—of the dodo bird. It so happens the shul at which I daven has a…

Article

Jun 3, 2012